< 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, through every generation, you have been “home” for us!
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, before you gave birth to the earth and the universe, from eternity past to eternity future, you are God.
3 You turn man to a bruised thing, And say, Return, you sons of men.
You turn people back into dust, saying, “Return to dust, human beings.”
4 For one thousand years in Your eyes [are] as yesterday, For it passes on, indeed, [as] a watch by night.
In your eyes, a thousand years are like a day that's already gone; like a few passing hours of the night.
5 You have inundated them, they are asleep, In the morning he changes as grass.
You bring people's lives to a sudden end, like dreams that vanish. They are like grass that grows up in the morning—
6 In the morning it flourishes, and has changed, At evening it is cut down, and has withered.
it sprouts in the morning, fresh and new, but by the evening it is withered and dead.
7 For we were consumed in Your anger, And we have been troubled in Your fury.
We are burned up by your anger, terrified by your fury.
8 You have set our iniquities before You, Our hidden things at the light of Your face,
You have set out our sins before you—our secret sins are visible in the light of your presence.
9 For all our days pined away in Your wrath, We consumed our years as a (meditation)
Our lives fade away under your anger, coming to an end as quickly as 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.
We live for seventy years—eighty if we have the strength. But even in the prime of life all that we have is hardship and suffering. Soon our lives are over and we're gone.
11 Who knows the power of Your anger? And according to Your fear—Your wrath?
Who can know the power of your anger? Who understands your fury so you can be shown reverence?
12 Let [us] know to number our days correctly, And we bring the heart to wisdom.
Teach us to value every one of our days so we can live wisely!
13 Turn back, O YHWH, until when? And regret concerning Your servants.
Lord, how long will it be before you come back to us and have pity on us your servants?
14 Satisfy us at morning [with] Your kindness, And we sing and rejoice all our days.
Show us every morning your trustworthy love so we may be happy, full of joy throughout our lives.
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 made us sad, for all the years we suffered!
16 Let Your work appear to Your servants, And Your honor on their sons.
May we, your servants, see you at work for us again; may our children see your glory.
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 our Lord God be pleased with us, blessing what we do, blessing what we do.

< Psalms 90 >