Psalms 90

1 BOOK FOURTH: “A prayer of Moses the man of God.” Lord, a place of refuge hast thou been unto us in all generations.

A Prayer of Moses, the man of God. Lord, a habitation Thou — Thou hast been, To us — in generation and generation,

2 Before yet the mountains were brought forth, or thou hadst ever produced the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting, thou art God.

Before mountains were brought forth, And Thou dost form the earth and the world, Even from age unto age Thou [art] God.

3 Thou turnest man to contrition, and sayest, Return ye children of men.

Thou turnest man unto a bruised thing, And sayest, Turn back, ye sons of men.

4 For a thousand years are in thy eyes but as the yesterday when it is past, and as a watch in the night.

For a thousand years in Thine eyes [are] as yesterday, For it passeth on, yea, a watch by night.

5 Thou carriest them away as with a flood; they are as a sleep: in the morning [they grow] like the grass which changeth.

Thou hast inundated them, they are asleep, In the morning as grass he changeth.

6 In the morning it blossometh, and is changed: in the evening it is mowed off, and withereth.

In the morning it flourisheth, and hath changed, At evening it is cut down, and hath withered.

7 For [thus] are we consumed by thy anger, and by thy fury are we terrified.

For we were consumed in Thine anger, And in Thy fury we have been troubled.

8 Thou hast set our iniquities before thee, our concealed sins before the light of thy countenance.

Thou hast set our iniquities before Thee, Our hidden things at the light of Thy face,

9 For all our days are passed away in thy wrath: we consume our years like a word that is spoken.

For all our days pined away in Thy wrath, We consumed our years as a (meditation)

10 The days of our years in this life are seventy years; and if by uncommon vigor they be eighty, yet is their greatness trouble and mishap; for it soon hasteneth off, and we fly away.

Days of our years, in them [are] seventy years, And if, by reason of might, eighty years, Yet [is] their enlargement labour and vanity, For it hath been cut off hastily, and we fly away.

11 Who knoweth the strength of thy anger, and thy wrath which is like the fear of thee?

Who knoweth the power of Thine anger? And according to Thy fear — Thy wrath?

12 Let us then know how to number our days, that we may obtain a heart endowed with wisdom.

To number our days aright let [us] know, And we bring the heart to wisdom.

13 Return, O Lord, how long yet? and bethink thee concerning thy servants.

Turn back, O Jehovah, till when? And repent concerning Thy servants.

14 O satisfy us in the morning with thy kindness, that we may be glad and rejoice throughout all our days.

Satisfy us at morn [with] Thy kindness, And we sing and rejoice all our days.

15 Cause us to rejoice as many days as those wherein thou hast afflicted us, the years wherein we have seen unhappiness.

Cause us to rejoice according to the days Wherein Thou hast afflicted us, The years we have seen evil.

16 Let thy act be visible on thy servants, and thy majesty over their children.

Let Thy work appear unto Thy servants, And Thine honour on their sons.

17 And may the beauty of the Lord our God be upon us; and the work of our hands do thou firmly establish upon us: yea, the work of our hands—firmly establish thou it.

And let the pleasantness of Jehovah our God be upon us, And the work of our hands establish on us, Yea, the work of our hands establish it!