Psalms 90
1 A Prayer of Moses, the man of God. Lord, a habitation Thou — Thou hast been, To us — in generation and generation,
BOOK FOURTH: “A prayer of Moses the man of God.” Lord, a place of refuge hast thou been unto us in all generations.
2 Before mountains were brought forth, And Thou dost form the earth and the world, Even from age unto age Thou [art] God.
Before yet the mountains were brought forth, or thou hadst ever produced the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting, thou art God.
3 Thou turnest man unto a bruised thing, And sayest, Turn back, ye sons of men.
Thou turnest man to contrition, and sayest, Return ye children of men.
4 For a thousand years in Thine eyes [are] as yesterday, For it passeth on, yea, a watch by night.
For a thousand years are in thy eyes but as the yesterday when it is past, and as a watch in the night.
5 Thou hast inundated them, they are asleep, In the morning as grass he changeth.
Thou carriest them away as with a flood; they are as a sleep: in the morning [they grow] like the grass which changeth.
6 In the morning it flourisheth, and hath changed, At evening it is cut down, and hath withered.
In the morning it blossometh, and is changed: in the evening it is mowed off, and withereth.
7 For we were consumed in Thine anger, And in Thy fury we have been troubled.
For [thus] are we consumed by thy anger, and by thy fury are we terrified.
8 Thou hast set our iniquities before Thee, Our hidden things at the light of Thy face,
Thou hast set our iniquities before thee, our concealed sins before the light of thy countenance.
9 For all our days pined away in Thy wrath, We consumed our years as a (meditation)
For all our days are passed away in thy wrath: we consume our years like a word that is spoken.
10 Days of our years, in them [are] seventy years, And if, by reason of might, eighty years, Yet [is] their enlargement labour and vanity, For it hath been cut off hastily, and we fly away.
The days of our years in this life are seventy years; and if by uncommon vigor they be eighty, yet is their greatness trouble and mishap; for it soon hasteneth off, and we fly away.
11 Who knoweth the power of Thine anger? And according to Thy fear — Thy wrath?
Who knoweth the strength of thy anger, and thy wrath which is like the fear of thee?
12 To number our days aright let [us] know, And we bring the heart to wisdom.
Let us then know how to number our days, that we may obtain a heart endowed with wisdom.
13 Turn back, O Jehovah, till when? And repent concerning Thy servants.
Return, O Lord, how long yet? and bethink thee concerning thy servants.
14 Satisfy us at morn [with] Thy kindness, And we sing and rejoice all our days.
O satisfy us in the morning with thy kindness, that we may be glad and rejoice throughout all our days.
15 Cause us to rejoice according to the days Wherein Thou hast afflicted us, The years we have seen evil.
Cause us to rejoice as many days as those wherein thou hast afflicted us, the years wherein we have seen unhappiness.
16 Let Thy work appear unto Thy servants, And Thine honour on their sons.
Let thy act be visible on thy servants, and thy majesty over their children.
17 And let the pleasantness of Jehovah our God be upon us, And the work of our hands establish on us, Yea, the work of our hands establish it!
And may the beauty of the Lord our God be upon us; and the work of our hands do thou firmly establish upon us: yea, the work of our hands—firmly establish thou it.
