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 resting-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 made, before you had given birth to the earth and the world, before time was, and for ever, you are God.

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

You send man back to his dust; and say, Go back, you children of men.

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

For to you a thousand years are no more than yesterday when it is past, and like a watch in the night.

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

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

In the morning it is green; in the evening it is cut down, and becomes dry.

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

We are burned up by the heat of your passion, and troubled by your wrath.

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

You have put our evil doings before you, our secret sins in the light of your face.

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

For all our days have gone by in your wrath; our years come to an end like a breath.

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 measure of our life is seventy years; and if through strength it may be eighty years, its pride is only trouble and sorrow, for it comes to an end and we are quickly gone.

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

Who has knowledge of the power of your wrath, or who takes note of the weight of your passion?

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

So give us knowledge of the number of our days, that we may get a heart of wisdom.

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

Come back, O Lord; how long? let your purpose for your servants be changed.

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

In the morning give us your mercy in full measure; so that we may have joy and delight 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 in reward for the days of our sorrow, and for the years in which we have seen evil.

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

Make your work clear to your servants, and your glory 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!

Let the pleasure of the Lord our God be on us: O Lord, give strength to the work of our hands.