Psalms 90
1 A Prayer of Moses, the man of God. Lord, a habitation Thou — Thou hast been, To us — in generation and generation,
A prayer of Moses, the man of God. Lord, you have been a home to us one generation after another.
2 Before mountains were brought forth, And Thou dost form the earth and the world, Even from age unto age Thou [art] God.
Before the mountains were born, or the earth and the world were brought forth, from everlasting to everlasting you are God.
3 Thou turnest man unto a bruised thing, And sayest, Turn back, ye sons of men.
You bring us back to the dust, you summon mortals to return.
4 For a thousand years in Thine eyes [are] as yesterday, For it passeth on, yea, a watch by night.
For you see a thousand years as the passing of yesterday, as a watch in the night.
5 Thou hast inundated them, they are asleep, In the morning as grass he changeth.
Your floods sweep them away; they are like a dream, or like grass which sprouts in the morning,
6 In the morning it flourisheth, and hath changed, At evening it is cut down, and hath withered.
which blossoms and sprouts in the morning, but by evening is cut and withered.
7 For we were consumed in Thine anger, And in Thy fury we have been troubled.
For your anger consumes us, the heat of your wrath confounds us.
8 Thou hast set our iniquities before Thee, Our hidden things at the light of Thy face,
Our sins you have set before you, our secrets in the light of your face.
9 For all our days pined away in Thy wrath, We consumed our years as a (meditation)
For through your wrath our days are declining, we bring our years to an end as a sigh.
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 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 knoweth the power of Thine anger? And according to Thy fear — Thy wrath?
Who lays to heart the power of your anger? Or who stands in reverent awe of your wrath?
12 To number our days aright let [us] know, And we bring the heart to wisdom.
O teach us to count our days so our minds may learn wisdom.
13 Turn back, O Jehovah, till when? And repent concerning Thy servants.
Return, O Lord; why so long? Relent on your servants.
14 Satisfy us at morn [with] Thy kindness, And we sing and rejoice all our days.
Grant us your love to the full in the morning, that all our days we may shout for joy.
15 Cause us to rejoice according to the days Wherein Thou hast afflicted us, The years we have seen evil.
Make us glad for the days you have humbled us, for the evil years we have seen.
16 Let Thy work appear unto Thy servants, And Thine honour on their sons.
Let your servants see you in action, show your majesty to 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!
Let the grace of the Lord our God be upon us, uphold what our hands are striving to do.
