Psalms 90

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

A prayer of Moses the man of God. Lord, You have been our dwelling place through 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 born or You brought forth the earth and the world, from everlasting to everlasting You are God.

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

You return man to dust, saying, “Return, O sons of mortals.”

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

For in Your sight a thousand years are but a day that passes, or a watch of the night.

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

You whisk them away in their sleep; they are like the new grass of the morning—

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

in the morning it springs up new, but by evening it fades and withers.

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

For we are consumed by Your anger and terrified by Your wrath.

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

You have set our iniquities before You, our secret sins in the light of Your presence.

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

For all our days decline in Your fury; we finish our years with 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 length of our days is seventy years— or eighty if we are strong— yet their pride is but labor and sorrow, for they quickly pass, and we fly away.

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

Who knows the power of Your anger? Your wrath matches the fear You are due.

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 present a heart of wisdom.

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

Return, O LORD! How long will it be? Have compassion on Your servants.

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

Satisfy us in the morning with Your loving devotion, that we may sing for joy 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 for as many days as You have afflicted us, for as many years as we have seen evil.

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

May Your work be shown to Your servants, and Your splendor to their children.

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!

May the favor of the Lord our God rest upon us; establish for us the work of our hands— yes, establish the work of our hands!