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 home to us one generation after another.
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 the mountains were born, or the earth and the world were brought forth, from everlasting to everlasting you are God.
3 But man thou turnest again to dust, And sayst, “Return, ye children of men!”
You bring us back to the dust, you summon mortals to return.
4 For a thousand years are, in thy sight, As yesterday when it is past, And as a watch in the night.
For you see a thousand years as the passing of yesterday, as a watch in the night.
5 Thou carriest him away as with a flood; He is a dream; In the morning he springeth up like grass,
Your floods sweep them away; they are like a dream, or like grass which sprouts in the morning,
6 Which flourisheth and shooteth up in the morning, And in the evening is cut down, and withered.
which blossoms and sprouts in the morning, but by evening is cut and withered.
7 For we are consumed by thine anger, And by thy wrath are we destroyed.
For your anger consumes us, the heat of your wrath confounds us.
8 Thou settest our iniquities before thee, Our secret sins in the light of thy countenance.
Our sins you have set before you, our secrets in the light of your face.
9 By reason of thine anger all our days vanish away; We spend our years like a thought.
For through your wrath our days are declining, we bring our years to an end as a sigh.
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 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 Yet who attendeth to the power of thine anger? Who with due reverence regardeth thine indignation?
Who lays to heart the power of your anger? Or who stands in reverent awe of your wrath?
12 Teach us so to number our days, That we may apply our hearts to wisdom!
O teach us to count our days so our minds may learn wisdom.
13 Desist, O LORD! How long—? Have compassion upon thy servants!
Return, O Lord; why so long? Relent on your servants.
14 Satisfy us speedily with thy mercy, That we may rejoice and be glad all our days!
Grant us your love to the full in the morning, that all our days we may shout for joy.
15 Make us glad according to the time in which thou hast afflicted us; According to the years in which we have seen adversity!
Make us glad for the days you have humbled us, for the evil years we have seen.
16 Let thy deeds be known to thy servants, And thy glory to their children!
Let your servants see you in action, show your majesty to their children.
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!
Let the grace of the Lord our God be upon us, uphold what our hands are striving to do.
