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 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, and thou hadst formed the earth and the world, even from eternity to eternity thou art God.
3 You turn man to a bruised thing, And say, Return, you sons of men.
Thou makest [mortal] man to return to dust, and sayest, Return, 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 a thousand years, in thy sight, are 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 carriest them away as with a flood; they are [as] a sleep: in the morning they are like grass [that] groweth up:
6 In the morning it flourishes, and has changed, At evening it is cut down, and has withered.
In the morning it flourisheth and groweth up; in the evening it is cut down and withereth.
7 For we were consumed in Your anger, And we have been troubled in Your fury.
For we are consumed by thine anger, and by thy fury are we troubled.
8 You have set our iniquities before You, Our hidden things at the light of Your face,
Thou hast 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 pass away in thy wrath: we spend our years as a [passing] thought.
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; and if, by reason of strength, they be fourscore years, yet their pride is labour and vanity, for it is soon cut off, and we fly away.
11 Who knows the power of Your anger? And according to Your fear—Your wrath?
Who knoweth the power of thine anger? and thy wrath according to the fear of 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 acquire a wise heart.
13 Turn back, O YHWH, until when? And regret concerning Your servants.
Return, Jehovah: how long? and let it repent thee concerning thy servants.
14 Satisfy us at morning [with] Your kindness, And we sing and rejoice all our days.
Satisfy us early with thy loving-kindness; 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 according to the days [wherein] thou hast afflicted us, according to the years [wherein] we have seen evil.
16 Let Your work appear to Your servants, And Your honor on their sons.
Let thy work appear unto thy servants, and thy majesty unto 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 beauty of Jehovah our God be upon us; and establish thou the work of our hands upon us: yea, the work of our hands, establish thou it.
