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, thou hast been our dwelling-place in all generations.

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 brought forth, or ever thou hadst formed the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting, thou [art] God.

3 Turn not man away to be brought low: and thou hast said: Be converted, O ye sons of men.

Thou turnest man to destruction; and sayest, Return, ye children of men.

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

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

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 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.

In the morning it flourisheth, and groweth; in the evening it is cut down, and withereth.

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

For we are consumed by thy anger, and by thy wrath are we troubled.

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

Thou hast set our iniquities before thee, our secret [sins] in the light of thy countenance.

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

For all our days are passed away in thy wrath: we spend our years, as a tale [that is told].

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 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 knoweth the power of thy anger, and for thy fear

Who knoweth the power of thy anger? even according to thy fear, [so is] thy wrath.

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

So teach [us] to number [our] days, that we may apply our hearts to wisdom.

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

Return, O LORD, how long? and repent thou concerning thy servants.

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

O satisfy us early with thy mercy; that we may rejoice and be glad all our days.

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 according to the days [in which] thou hast afflicted us, [and] the years [in which] we have seen evil.

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

Let thy work appear to thy servants, and thy glory 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.

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.