Psalms 90

1 Lord, you have always (been [like] a home for us/protected us) [MET].

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

2 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.

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

3 [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.

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

4 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.

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

5 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.

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

6 In the morning [DOU] the grass sprouts and grows well, but in the evening it dries up and (completely withers/dies).

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

7 [Similarly], [because of the sins that we have committed], you become angry with us; you terrify us and then you destroy us.

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

8 [It is as though] you place our sins in front of you, you spread out even our secret sins where you can see them.

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

9 Because you are angry with us, you cause our lives to end; the years that we live pass as quickly as a sigh does.

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

10 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].

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 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.

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

12 So teach/help us to realize that we live for only a short time in order that we may [use our time] wisely.

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

13 Yahweh, how long [will you be angry with us]? Pity us who serve you.

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

14 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.

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

15 Cause us to now be as happy for as many years as you (afflicted us/caused us to be sad) and we experienced troubles.

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

16 Enable us to see the [great] things that you do and enable our descendants to [also] see your glorious power.

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

17 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]!

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!