Psalms 90
1 A PRAYER OF MOSES, THE MAN OF GOD. Lord, You have been a habitation, To us—in generation and generation,
BOOK FOURTH: “A prayer of Moses the man of God.” Lord, a place of refuge hast thou been unto us 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 yet the mountains were brought forth, or thou hadst ever produced 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 are in thy eyes but as the 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 grow] like the grass which changeth.
6 In the morning it flourishes, and has changed, At evening it is cut down, and has withered.
In the morning it blossometh, and is changed: in the evening it is mowed off, and withereth.
7 For we were consumed in Your anger, And we have been troubled in Your fury.
For [thus] are we consumed by thy anger, and by thy fury are we terrified.
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 concealed sins before 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 consume our years like a word that is spoken.
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 this life are seventy years; and if by uncommon vigor they be eighty, yet is their greatness trouble and mishap; for it soon hasteneth off, and we fly away.
11 Who knows the power of Your anger? And according to Your fear—Your wrath?
Who knoweth the strength of thy anger, and thy wrath which is like the fear of thee?
12 Let [us] know to number our days correctly, And we bring the heart to wisdom.
Let us then know how to number our days, that we may obtain a heart endowed with wisdom.
13 Turn back, O YHWH, until when? And regret concerning Your servants.
Return, O Lord, how long yet? and bethink 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 kindness, that we may be glad and rejoice throughout all our days.
15 Cause us to rejoice according to the days Wherein You have afflicted us, The years we have seen evil.
Cause us to rejoice as many days as those wherein thou hast afflicted us, the years wherein we have seen unhappiness.
16 Let Your work appear to Your servants, And Your honor on their sons.
Let thy act be visible on thy servants, and thy majesty over 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 may the beauty of the Lord our God be upon us; and the work of our hands do thou firmly establish upon us: yea, the work of our hands—firmly establish thou it.
