Psalms 90
1 A prayer of Moses the man of God. Lord, you have been our refuge throughout 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 formed, or you formed the earth and the world, from everlasting to everlasting, you are God.
Before the mountains were born, or the earth and the world were brought forth, from everlasting to everlasting you are God.
3 You return man to dust, and you say, “Return, you descendants of mankind.”
You bring us back to the dust, you summon mortals to return.
4 For a thousand years in your sight are 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 You sweep them away as with a flood and they sleep; in the morning they are like the grass that sprouts up.
Your floods sweep them away; they are like a dream, or like grass which sprouts in the morning,
6 In the morning it blooms and grows up; in the evening it withers and dries up.
which blossoms and sprouts in the morning, but by evening is cut and withered.
7 Truly, we are consumed in your anger, and in your wrath we are terrified.
For your anger consumes us, the heat of your wrath confounds us.
8 You have set our iniquities before you, our hidden sins in the light of your presence.
Our sins you have set before you, our secrets in the light of your face.
9 Our life passes away under your wrath; our years quickly pass like a sigh.
For through your wrath our days are declining, we bring our years to an end as a sigh.
10 Our years are seventy, or even eighty if we are healthy; but even our best years are marked by trouble and sorrow. Yes, they pass quickly, 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 Who knows the intensity of your anger, and your wrath that is equal to the fear of you?
Who lays to heart the power of your anger? Or who stands in reverent awe of your wrath?
12 So teach us to consider our life so that we might live wisely.
O teach us to count our days so our minds may learn wisdom.
13 Turn back, Yahweh! How long will it be? Have pity on your servants.
Return, O Lord; why so long? Relent on your servants.
14 Satisfy us in the morning with your covenant faithfulness so 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 in proportion to the days you afflicted us and to the years we have experienced trouble.
Make us glad for the days you have humbled us, for the evil years we have seen.
16 Let your servants see your work, and let our children see your majesty.
Let your servants see you in action, show your majesty to their children.
17 May the favor of the Lord our God be ours; prosper the work of our hands; indeed, prosper the work of our hands.
Let the grace of the Lord our God be upon us, uphold what our hands are striving to do.
