Psalms 90

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

Lord, you have 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 you had formed the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting, you are God.

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

You turn man to destruction; and say, Return, you 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 your 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.

You carry them away as with a flood; they are as a sleep: in the morning they are like grass which grows up.

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

In the morning it flourishes, and grows up; in the evening it is cut down, and wither.

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

For we are consumed by your anger, and by your wrath are we troubled.

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

You have set our iniquities before you, our secret sins in the light of your 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 your wrath: we spend our years 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 three score years and ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labor and sorrow; 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 knows the power of your anger? even according to your fear, so is your wrath.

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 apply our hearts to wisdom.

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

Return, O LORD, how long? and let it repent you concerning your servants.

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

O satisfy us early with your 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 you have afflicted us, and the years wherein we have seen evil.

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

Let your work appear to your servants, and your glory to 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 beauty of the LORD our God be on us: and establish you the work of our hands on us; yes, the work of our hands establish you it.