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 home to us one generation after another.

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 the mountains were born, or the earth and the world were brought forth, from everlasting to everlasting 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 bring us back to the dust, you summon mortals to return.

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 you see a thousand years as the passing of yesterday, as a watch in the 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.

Your floods sweep them away; they are like a dream, or like grass which sprouts in the morning,

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

which blossoms and sprouts in the morning, but by evening is cut and 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 your anger consumes us, the heat of your wrath confounds us.

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.

Our sins you have set before you, our secrets in 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 through your wrath our days are declining, we bring our years to an end as a sigh.

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 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 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 lays to heart the power of your anger? Or who stands in reverent awe of 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.

O teach us to count our days so our minds may learn wisdom.

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

Return, O Lord; why so long? Relent on 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.

Grant us your love to the full in the morning, that all our days we may shout for joy.

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.

Make us glad for the days you have humbled us, for the evil years we have seen.

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

Let your servants see you in action, show your majesty to their children.

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]!

Let the grace of the Lord our God be upon us, uphold what our hands are striving to do.