Psalms 90

1 A PRAYER OF MOSES, THE MAN OF GOD. Lord, You have been a habitation, To us—in generation and generation,

BOOK IV 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, or ever Thou hadst formed the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting, Thou art God.

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

Thou turnest man to contrition; and sayest: 'Return, ye 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 but 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 which 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 in Thine anger, and by Thy wrath are we hurried away.

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 are passed away in Thy wrath; we bring our years to an end as a tale that is told.

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, or even by reason of strength fourscore years; yet is their pride but travail and vanity; for it is speedily gone, 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 that is due unto 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 get us a heart of wisdom.

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

Return, O LORD; 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.

O satisfy us in the morning with Thy mercy; that we may rejoice 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 glory upon 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 graciousness of the Lord our God be upon us; establish Thou also upon us the work of our hands; yea, the work of our hands establish Thou it.