Psalms 90

1 Lord, you have been our dwelling place in all generations.

A PRAYER OF MOSES, THE MAN OF GOD. Lord, You have been a habitation, To us—in generation and generation,

2 Before the mountains were brought forth, before even you had formed the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting, you are God.

Before mountains were brought forth, And You form the earth and the world, Even from age to age You [are] God.

3 You turn man to destruction; and say, Return, all of you children of men.

You turn man to a bruised thing, And say, Return, you sons of men.

4 For a thousand years in your sight are but as yesterday when it is past, and as a watch in the night.

For one thousand years in Your eyes [are] as yesterday, For it passes on, indeed, [as] a watch by night.

5 You carry them away as with a flood; they are as a sleep: in the morning they are like grass which grows up.

You have inundated them, they are asleep, In the morning he changes as grass.

6 In the morning it flourishes, and grows up; in the evening it is cut down, and withers.

In the morning it flourishes, and has changed, At evening it is cut down, and has withered.

7 For we are consumed by your anger, and by your wrath are we troubled.

For we were consumed in Your anger, And we have been troubled in Your fury.

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

You have set our iniquities before You, Our hidden things at the light of Your face,

9 For all our days are passed away in your wrath: we spend our years as a tale that is told.

For all our days pined away in Your wrath, We consumed our years as a (meditation)

10 The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labour and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away.

The days of our years, in them [are] seventy years, And if, by reason of might, eighty years, Yet their enlargement [is] labor and vanity, For it has been cut off quickly, and we fly away.

11 Who knows the power of your anger? even according to your fear, so is your wrath.

Who knows the power of Your anger? And according to Your fear—Your wrath?

12 So teach us to number our days, that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom.

Let [us] know to number our days correctly, And we bring the heart to wisdom.

13 Return, O LORD, how long? and let it repent you concerning your servants.

Turn back, O YHWH, until when? And regret concerning Your servants.

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

Satisfy us at morning [with] Your kindness, And we sing and rejoice all our days.

15 Make us glad according to the days wherein you have afflicted us, and the years wherein we have seen evil.

Cause us to rejoice according to the days Wherein You have afflicted us, The years we have seen evil.

16 Let your work appear unto your servants, and your glory unto their children.

Let Your work appear to Your servants, And Your honor on their sons.

17 And let the beauty of the LORD our God be upon us: and establish you the work of our hands upon us; yea, the work of our hands establish you it.

And let the pleasantness of our God YHWH be on us, And establish on us the work of our hands, Indeed, establish the work of our hands!