Psalms 90
1 A Prayer of Moses, the man of God. Lord, you have been our resting-place in all generations.
A prayer of Moses the man of God. LORD, thou hast been our dwelling-place in all generations.
2 Before the mountains were made, before you had given birth to the earth and the world, before time was, and for ever, you are God.
Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever thou hadst formed the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting, thou [art] God.
3 You send man back to his dust; and say, Go back, you children of men.
Thou turnest man to destruction; and sayest, Return, ye children of men.
4 For to you a thousand years are no more than yesterday when it is past, and like a watch in the night.
For a thousand years in thy sight [are but] as yesterday when it is past, and [as] a watch in the night.
Thou carriest them away as with a flood; they are [as] a sleep; in the morning [they are] like grass [which] groweth.
6 In the morning it is green; in the evening it is cut down, and becomes dry.
In the morning it flourisheth, and groweth; in the evening it is cut down, and withereth.
7 We are burned up by the heat of your passion, and troubled by your wrath.
For we are consumed by thy anger, and by thy wrath are we troubled.
8 You have put our evil doings before you, our secret sins in the light of your face.
Thou hast set our iniquities before thee, our secret [sins] in the light of thy countenance.
9 For all our days have gone by in your wrath; our years come to an end like a breath.
For all our days are passed away in thy wrath: we spend our years, as a tale [that is told].
10 The measure of our life is seventy years; and if through strength it may be eighty years, its pride is only trouble and sorrow, for it comes to an end and we are quickly gone.
The days of our years [are] seventy years; and if by reason of strength [they are] eighty years, yet [is] their strength labor and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away.
11 Who has knowledge of the power of your wrath, or who takes note of the weight of your passion?
Who knoweth the power of thy anger? even according to thy fear, [so is] thy wrath.
12 So give us knowledge of the number of our days, that we may get a heart of wisdom.
So teach [us] to number [our] days, that we may apply our hearts to wisdom.
13 Come back, O Lord; how long? let your purpose for your servants be changed.
Return, O LORD, how long? and repent thou concerning thy servants.
14 In the morning give us your mercy in full measure; so that we may have joy and delight all our days.
O satisfy us early with thy mercy; that we may rejoice and be glad all our days.
15 Make us glad in reward for the days of our sorrow, and for the years in which we have seen evil.
Make us glad according to the days [in which] thou hast afflicted us, [and] the years [in which] we have seen evil.
16 Make your work clear to your servants, and your glory to their children.
Let thy work appear to thy servants, and thy glory to their children.
17 Let the pleasure of the Lord our God be on us: O Lord, give strength to the work of our hands.
And let the beauty of the LORD our God be upon us: and establish thou the work of our hands upon us; yes, the work of our hands establish thou it.
