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, you have been a home to us one generation after another.
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, or the earth and the world were brought forth, from everlasting to everlasting you are God.
3 You turn man to a bruised thing, And say, Return, you sons of men.
You bring us back to the dust, you summon mortals to return.
4 For one thousand years in Your eyes [are] as yesterday, For it passes on, indeed, [as] a watch by night.
For you see a thousand years as the passing of yesterday, as a watch in the night.
5 You have inundated them, they are asleep, In the morning he changes as grass.
Your floods sweep them away; they are like a dream, or like grass which sprouts in the morning,
6 In the morning it flourishes, and has changed, At evening it is cut down, and has withered.
which blossoms and sprouts in the morning, but by evening is cut and withered.
7 For we were consumed in Your anger, And we have been troubled in Your fury.
For your anger consumes us, the heat of your wrath confounds us.
8 You have set our iniquities before You, Our hidden things at the light of Your face,
Our sins you have set before you, our secrets in the light of your face.
9 For all our days pined away in Your wrath, We consumed our years as a (meditation)
For through your wrath our days are declining, we bring our years to an end 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.
The span of our life is seventy years, or, if we are strong, maybe eighty; yet is their breadth but empty toil, for swiftly they go, and we fly away.
11 Who knows the power of Your anger? And according to Your fear—Your wrath?
Who lays to heart the power of your anger? Or who stands in reverent awe of your wrath?
12 Let [us] know to number our days correctly, And we bring the heart to wisdom.
O teach us to count our days so our minds may learn wisdom.
13 Turn back, O YHWH, until when? And regret concerning Your servants.
Return, O Lord; why so long? Relent on your servants.
14 Satisfy us at morning [with] Your kindness, And we sing and rejoice all our days.
Grant us your love to the full in the morning, that all our days we may shout for joy.
15 Cause us to rejoice according to the days Wherein You have afflicted us, The years we have seen evil.
Make us glad for the days you have humbled us, for the evil years we have seen.
16 Let Your work appear to Your servants, And Your honor on their sons.
Let your servants see you in action, show your majesty 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 grace of the Lord our God be upon us, uphold what our hands are striving to do.
