Psalms 90
1 A Prayer by Moses, the Man of God. Lord! a dwelling-place, hast, thou, become to us, From generation to generation:
Lord, you have always (been [like] a home for us/protected us) [MET].
2 Before, the mountains, were born, Or thou hadst brought forth the earth and the world, Even, from age to age, thou, [wast] GOD.
Before you created the mountains, before you formed the earth and everything that is in it, you were eternally God, and you will be God forever.
3 Thou causest man to return unto dust, And hast said—Return, ye sons of Adam!
[When people die], you cause their corpses to become soil again; you change their corpses to become dirt like [the first man] was created from.
4 For, a thousand years, in thine eyes, [are], As yesterday, in that it passed away, Or [as] a watch in the night.
When you (consider/think about) time, 1,000 years are [as short as] [SIM] one day which passes; [you consider that] [HYP] they are as short as a few hours in the night.
5 Thou hast snatched them away, A sleep, do they become, In the morning, [they are] like grass that shooteth up,
You cause people suddenly to die [MET]; they [live only a short time], like a dream lasts only a short time. They are like grass/weeds [SIM] that grow up.
6 In the morning, it sprouteth and shooteth up, By the evening, it is cut down and withered.
In the morning [DOU] the grass sprouts and grows well, but in the evening it dries up and (completely withers/dies).
7 For we are consumed in thine anger, And, in thy wrath, are we dismayed;
[Similarly], [because of the sins that we have committed], you become angry with us; you terrify us and then you destroy us.
8 Thou hast set, Our iniquities before thee, Our secret near the luminary of thy face.
[It is as though] you place our sins in front of you, you spread out even our secret sins where you can see them.
9 For, all our days, decline in thy wrath, —We end our years like a sigh.
Because you are angry with us, you cause our lives to end; the years that we live pass as quickly as a sigh does.
10 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.
People live for only 70 years; but if they are strong, some of them live for 80 years. But even during good years we have much pain and troubles; our lives soon end, and we die [EUP].
11 Who knoweth the strength of thine anger? Even, according to the fear of thee, is thy wrath!
No one [RHQ] has fully experienced the powerful things you can do to them when you are angry with them, and people are not afraid that you will greatly punish them because of your being angry with them.
12 How to number our days, so grant us to know, That we may win us a heart that hath wisdom.
So teach/help us to realize that we live for only a short time in order that we may [use our time] wisely.
13 Return, Yahweh, oh how long? And have compassion upon thy servants;
Yahweh, how long [will you be angry with us]? Pity us who serve you.
14 Satisfy us, in the morning, with thy lovingkindness, That we may shout aloud and be glad, Throughout all our days.
Each morning show us that your faithfully loving us is enough for us in order that we may shout joyfully and be happy for the rest of our lives.
15 Make us glad, according to, The days thou hast humbled us, The years we have seen misfortune:
Cause us to now be as happy for as many years as you (afflicted us/caused us to be sad) and we experienced troubles.
16 Let thy work, appear unto thy servants, And, thy majesty, upon their children;
Enable us to see the [great] things that you do and enable our descendants to [also] see your glorious power.
17 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.
Lord, our God, give us your blessings and enable us to be successful; yes, cause us to be successful in [everything] that we do [DOU]!
