Psalms 90

1 A Prayer by Moses, the man of God. Lord, you have been our dwelling place for all generations.

Lord, you have always (been [like] a home for us/protected us) [MET].

2 Before the mountains were born, before you had formed the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting, you are 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 You turn man to destruction, saying, “Return, you children 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 your sight are just like yesterday when it is past, like a watch in the 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 You sweep them away as they sleep. In the morning they sprout like new grass.

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 sprouts and springs up. By evening, it is withered and dry.

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

7 For we are consumed in your anger. We are troubled in your wrath.

[Similarly], [because of the sins that we have committed], you become angry with us; you terrify us and then you destroy us.

8 You have set our iniquities before you, our secret sins in the light of your presence.

[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 have passed away in your wrath. We bring our years to an end as a sigh.

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 The days of our years are seventy, or even by reason of strength eighty years; yet their pride is but labor and sorrow, for it passes quickly, 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 knows the power of your anger, your wrath according to the fear that is due to you?

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 So teach us to count our days, that we may gain a heart of 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 Relent, Yahweh! How long? Have compassion on your servants!

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

14 Satisfy us in the morning with your loving kindness, that we may rejoice and be glad 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 Make us glad for as many days as you have afflicted us, for as many years as 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 your work appear to your servants, your glory to their children.

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

17 Let the favor of the Lord our God be on us. Establish the work of our hands for us. Yes, establish the work of our hands.

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]!