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, thou hast been our refuge 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 existed, and [before] the earth and the world were formed, even from age to age, Thou art.

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

Turn not man back to [his] low place, whereas thou saidst, 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 as the yesterday which is past, and as a watch in the night.

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

Years shall be vanity to them: let the morning pass away as grass.

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

In the morning let it flower, and pass away: in the evening let it droop, let it be withered and dried up.

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

For we have perished in thine anger, and in thy wrath we have been troubled.

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

Thou hast set our transgressions before thee: our age is 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 gone, and we have passed away in thy wrath: our years have spun out their tale as a spider.

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.

[As for] the days of our years, in them are seventy years; and if [men should be] in strength, eighty years: and the greater part of them would be labour and trouble; for weakness overtakes us, and we shall be chastened.

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

Who knows the power of thy wrath?

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

and [who knows how] to number [his days] because of the fear of thy wrath? So manifest thy right hand, and those that are instructed in wisdom in the heart.

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

Return, O Lord, how long? and be intreated concerning thy servants.

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

We have been satisfied in the morning with thy mercy; and we did exult and rejoice:

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

let us rejoice in all our days, in return for the days wherein thou didst afflict us, the years wherein we saw evil.

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

And look upon thy servants, and upon thy works; and guide 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!

And let the brightness of the Lord our God be upon us: and do thou direct for us the works of our hands.