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 from generation to generation.
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, or the earth and the world was formed; from eternity and to eternity thou art God.
3 You turn man to a bruised thing, And say, Return, you sons of men.
Turn not man away to be brought low: and thou hast said: Be converted, O 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 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.
Things that are counted nothing, shall their years be.
6 In the morning it flourishes, and has changed, At evening it is cut down, and has withered.
In the morning man shall grow up like grass; in the morning he shall flourish and pass away: in the evening he shall fall, grow dry, and wither.
7 For we were consumed in Your anger, And we have been troubled in Your fury.
For in thy wrath we have fainted away: and are troubled in thy indignation.
8 You have set our iniquities before You, Our hidden things at the light of Your face,
Thou hast set our iniquities before thy eyes: our life 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 spent; and in thy wrath we have fainted away. Our years shall be considered 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.
The days of our years in them are threescore and ten years. But if in the strong they be fourscore years: and what is more of them is labour and sorrow. For mildness is come upon us: and we shall be corrected.
11 Who knows the power of Your anger? And according to Your fear—Your wrath?
Who knoweth the power of thy anger, and for thy fear
12 Let [us] know to number our days correctly, And we bring the heart to wisdom.
Can number thy wrath? So make thy right hand known: and men learned in heart, in wisdom.
13 Turn back, O YHWH, until when? And regret concerning Your servants.
Return, O Lord, how long? and be entreated in favour of thy servants.
14 Satisfy us at morning [with] Your kindness, And we sing and rejoice all our days.
We are filled in the morning with thy mercy: and we have rejoiced, and are delighted all our days.
15 Cause us to rejoice according to the days Wherein You have afflicted us, The years we have seen evil.
We have rejoiced for the days in which thou hast humbled us: for the years in which we have seen evils.
16 Let Your work appear to Your servants, And Your honor on their sons.
Look upon thy servants and upon their works: and direct 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 direct thou the works of our hands over us; yea, the work of our hands do thou direct.
