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.
But man thou turnest again to dust, And sayst, “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 sight, 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 him away as with a flood; He is a dream; In the morning he springeth up like grass,
6 In the morning it flourishes, and has changed, At evening it is cut down, and has withered.
Which flourisheth and shooteth up in the morning, And in the evening is cut down, and withered.
7 For we were consumed in Your anger, And we have been troubled in Your fury.
For we are consumed by thine anger, And by thy wrath are we destroyed.
8 You have set our iniquities before You, Our hidden things at the light of Your face,
Thou settest 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)
By reason of thine anger all our days vanish away; We spend our years like a thought.
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 life are threescore years and ten, And, by reason of strength, may be fourscore years: Yet is the pride of them weariness and sorrow; For it vanisheth swiftly, and we fly away.
11 Who knows the power of Your anger? And according to Your fear—Your wrath?
Yet who attendeth to the power of thine anger? Who with due reverence regardeth thine indignation?
12 Let [us] know to number our days correctly, And we bring the heart to wisdom.
Teach us so to number our days, That we may apply our hearts to wisdom!
13 Turn back, O YHWH, until when? And regret concerning Your servants.
Desist, O LORD! How long—? Have compassion upon thy servants!
14 Satisfy us at morning [with] Your kindness, And we sing and rejoice all our days.
Satisfy us speedily 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 time in which thou hast afflicted us; According to the years in which we have seen adversity!
16 Let Your work appear to Your servants, And Your honor on their sons.
Let thy deeds be known to thy servants, And thy 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!
Let the favor of the LORD our God be upon us, And establish for us the work of our hands; Yea, the work of our hands, establish thou it!
