Psalms 90

1 “BOOK IV. A prayer of Moses, the man of God.” LORD! thou hast been our dwelling-place In all generations!

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

2 Before the mountains were brought forth, Or ever thou hadst formed the earth and the world, Even from everlasting to everlasting thou art God!

Before mountains were brought forth, And You form the earth and the world, Even from age to age You [are] God.

3 But man thou turnest again to dust, And sayst, “Return, ye children of men!”

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

4 For a thousand years are, in thy sight, As yesterday when it is past, And as a watch in the night.

For one thousand years in Your eyes [are] as yesterday, For it passes on, indeed, [as] a watch by night.

5 Thou carriest him away as with a flood; He is a dream; In the morning he springeth up like grass,

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

6 Which flourisheth and shooteth up in the morning, And in the evening is cut down, and withered.

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

7 For we are consumed by thine anger, And by thy wrath are we destroyed.

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

8 Thou settest our iniquities before thee, Our secret sins in the light of thy countenance.

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

9 By reason of thine anger all our days vanish away; We spend our years like a thought.

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

10 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.

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.

11 Yet who attendeth to the power of thine anger? Who with due reverence regardeth thine indignation?

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

12 Teach us so to number our days, That we may apply our hearts to wisdom!

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

13 Desist, O LORD! How long—? Have compassion upon thy servants!

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

14 Satisfy us speedily with thy mercy, That we may rejoice and be glad all our days!

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

15 Make us glad according to the time in which thou hast afflicted us; According to the years in which we have seen adversity!

Cause us to rejoice according to the days Wherein You have afflicted us, The years we have seen evil.

16 Let thy deeds be known to thy servants, And thy glory to their children!

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

17 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!

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!