Psalms 90

1 A prayer of Moses the man of God. Lord, thou hast been our refuge from generation to generation.

A prayer of Moses, the man of God. Lord, you have been a home to us one generation after another.

2 Before the mountains were made, or the earth and the world was formed; from eternity and to eternity 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 Turn not man away to be brought low: and thou hast said: Be converted, O ye sons of men.

You bring us back to the dust, you summon mortals to return.

4 For a thousand years in thy sight are as yesterday, which is past. And as a watch in the night,

For you see a thousand years as the passing of yesterday, as a watch in the night.

5 Things that are counted nothing, shall their years be.

Your floods sweep them away; they are like a dream, or like grass which sprouts in the morning,

6 In the morning man shall grow up like grass; in the morning he shall flourish and pass away: in the evening he shall fall, grow dry, and wither.

which blossoms and sprouts in the morning, but by evening is cut and withered.

7 For in thy wrath we have fainted away: and are troubled in thy indignation.

For your anger consumes us, the heat of your wrath confounds us.

8 Thou hast set our iniquities before thy eyes: our life in the light of thy countenance.

Our sins you have set before you, our secrets in the light of your face.

9 For all our days are spent; and in thy wrath we have fainted away. Our years shall be considered as a spider:

For through your wrath our days are declining, we bring our years to an end as a sigh.

10 The days of our years in them are threescore and ten years. But if in the strong they be fourscore years: and what is more of them is labour and sorrow. For mildness is come upon us: and we shall be corrected.

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 thy anger, and for thy fear

Who lays to heart the power of your anger? Or who stands in reverent awe of your wrath?

12 Can number thy wrath? So make thy right hand known: and men learned in heart, in wisdom.

O teach us to count our days so our minds may learn wisdom.

13 Return, O Lord, how long? and be entreated in favour of thy servants.

Return, O Lord; why so long? Relent on your servants.

14 We are filled in the morning with thy mercy: and we have rejoiced, and are delighted all our days.

Grant us your love to the full in the morning, that all our days we may shout for joy.

15 We have rejoiced for the days in which thou hast humbled us: for the years in which we have seen evils.

Make us glad for the days you have humbled us, for the evil years we have seen.

16 Look upon thy servants and upon their works: and direct their children.

Let your servants see you in action, show your majesty to their children.

17 And let the brightness of the Lord our God be upon us: and direct thou the works of our hands over us; yea, the work of our hands do thou direct.

Let the grace of the Lord our God be upon us, uphold what our hands are striving to do.