Psalms 90

1 A PRAYER OF MOSES, THE MAN OF GOD. Lord, You have been a habitation, To us—in generation and generation,

Lord, thou have been our dwelling-place in all generations.

2 Before mountains were brought forth, And You form the earth and the world, Even from age to age You [are] God.

Before the mountains were brought forth, or thou had ever formed the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting, thou are God.

3 You turn man to a bruised thing, And say, Return, you sons of men.

Thou turn man to destruction, and say, Return, ye sons of men.

4 For one thousand years in Your eyes [are] as yesterday, For it passes on, indeed, [as] a watch by night.

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

5 You have inundated them, they are asleep, In the morning he changes as grass.

Thou carry them away as with a flood. They are as a sleep. In the morning they are like grass which grows up.

6 In the morning it flourishes, and has changed, At evening it is cut down, and has withered.

In the morning it flourishes, and grows up. In the evening it is cut down, and withers.

7 For we were consumed in Your anger, And we have been troubled in Your fury.

For we are consumed in thine anger, and in thy wrath are we troubled.

8 You have set our iniquities before You, Our hidden things at the light of Your face,

Thou have set our iniquities before thee, our secret sins in the light of thy countenance.

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

For all our days are passed away in thy wrath. We bring our years to an end as a sigh.

10 The days of our years, in them [are] seventy years, And if, by reason of might, eighty years, Yet their enlargement [is] labor and vanity, For it has been cut off quickly, and we fly away.

The days of our years are threescore years and ten, or even by reason of strength fourscore years, yet their pride is but labor and sorrow, for it is soon gone, and we fly away.

11 Who knows the power of Your anger? And according to Your fear—Your wrath?

Who knows the power of thine anger, and thy wrath according to the fear that is due to thee?

12 Let [us] know to number our days correctly, And we bring the heart to wisdom.

So teach us to number our days, that we may get us a heart of wisdom.

13 Turn back, O YHWH, until when? And regret concerning Your servants.

Return, O Jehovah. How long? And relent concerning thy servants.

14 Satisfy us at morning [with] Your kindness, And we sing and rejoice all our days.

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

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

Make us glad according to the days in which thou have afflicted us, and the years in which we have seen evil.

16 Let Your work appear to Your servants, And Your honor on their sons.

Let thy work appear to thy servants, and thy glory upon their sons.

17 And let the pleasantness of our God YHWH be on us, And establish on us the work of our hands, Indeed, establish the work of our hands!

And let the favor of the Lord our God be upon us. And establish thou the work of our hands upon us, yea, the work of our hands establish thou it.