Psalms 90
1 A Prayer of Moses, the man of God. Lord, a habitation Thou — Thou hast been, To us — in generation and generation,
Lord, you have always (been [like] a home for us/protected us) [MET].
2 Before mountains were brought forth, And Thou dost form the earth and the world, Even from age unto age Thou [art] God.
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.
3 Thou turnest man unto a bruised thing, And sayest, Turn back, ye sons of men.
[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.
4 For a thousand years in Thine eyes [are] as yesterday, For it passeth on, yea, a watch by night.
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.
5 Thou hast inundated them, they are asleep, In the morning as grass he changeth.
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.
6 In the morning it flourisheth, and hath changed, At evening it is cut down, and hath withered.
In the morning [DOU] the grass sprouts and grows well, but in the evening it dries up and (completely withers/dies).
7 For we were consumed in Thine anger, And in Thy fury we have been troubled.
[Similarly], [because of the sins that we have committed], you become angry with us; you terrify us and then you destroy us.
8 Thou hast set our iniquities before Thee, Our hidden things at the light of Thy face,
[It is as though] you place our sins in front of you, you spread out even our secret sins where you can see them.
9 For all our days pined away in Thy wrath, We consumed our years as a (meditation)
Because you are angry with us, you cause our lives to end; the years that we live pass as quickly as a sigh does.
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.
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].
11 Who knoweth the power of Thine anger? And according to Thy fear — Thy wrath?
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.
12 To number our days aright let [us] know, And we bring the heart to wisdom.
So teach/help us to realize that we live for only a short time in order that we may [use our time] wisely.
13 Turn back, O Jehovah, till when? And repent concerning Thy servants.
Yahweh, how long [will you be angry with us]? Pity us who serve you.
14 Satisfy us at morn [with] Thy kindness, And we sing and rejoice all our days.
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.
15 Cause us to rejoice according to the days Wherein Thou hast afflicted us, The years we have seen evil.
Cause us to now be as happy for as many years as you (afflicted us/caused us to be sad) and we experienced troubles.
16 Let Thy work appear unto Thy servants, And Thine honour on their sons.
Enable us to see the [great] things that you do and enable our descendants to [also] see your glorious power.
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!
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]!
