Psalms 90

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

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

2 Before the mountains were born, or the earth and the world were brought forth, from everlasting to everlasting 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 El.

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

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

4 For you see a thousand years as the passing of yesterday, 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 Your floods sweep them away; they are like a dream, or like grass which sprouts in the morning,

Thou carriest them away as with a flood; they are as a sleep: in the morning they are like grass which groweth up.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

10 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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

Return, O YHWH, how long? and let it repent thee concerning thy servants.

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

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

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

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

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

Let thy work appear unto thy servants, and thy glory unto their children.

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

And let the beauty of YHWH our Elohim be upon us: and establish thou the work of our hands upon us; yea, the work of our hands establish thou it.