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 by Moses, the Man of God. Lord! a dwelling-place, hast, thou, become to us, From generation to generation:

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 thou hadst brought forth the earth and the world, Even, from age to age, thou, [wast] GOD.

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

Thou causest man to return unto dust, And hast said—Return, ye sons of Adam!

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 thine eyes, [are], As yesterday, in that it passed away, Or [as] a watch in the night.

5 You have inundated them, they are asleep, In the morning he changes as grass.

Thou hast snatched them away, A sleep, do they become, In the morning, [they are] like grass that shooteth up,

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

In the morning, it sprouteth and shooteth up, By the evening, it 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 in thine anger, And, in thy wrath, are we dismayed;

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 near the luminary of thy face.

9 For all our days pined away in Your wrath, We consumed our years as a (meditation)

For, all our days, decline in thy wrath, —We end our years like 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 days of our years, have, in them, three score years and ten, And, if, by reason of strength, they have fourscore years, Yet, their boast, is labour and sorrow, For it hath passed quickly, and we have flown away.

11 Who knows the power of Your anger? And according to Your fear—Your wrath?

Who knoweth the strength of thine anger? Even, according to the fear of thee, is thy wrath!

12 Let [us] know to number our days correctly, And we bring the heart to wisdom.

How to number our days, so grant us to know, That we may win us a heart that hath wisdom.

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

Return, Yahweh, oh how long? And have compassion upon thy servants;

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

Satisfy us, in the morning, with thy lovingkindness, That we may shout aloud and be glad, Throughout 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 thou hast humbled us, The years we have seen misfortune:

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

Let thy work, appear unto thy servants, And, thy majesty, 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 delightfulness of Adonay our God be upon us, —And, the work of our hands, establish thou upon us, Yea, the work of our hands, establish thou it.