Psalms 90

1 Lord, you have always (been [like] a home for us/protected us) [MET].

A prayer of Moses, the man of God. Lord, through every generation, you have been “home” for us!

2 Before you created the mountains, before you formed the earth and everything that is in it, you were eternally God, and you will be God forever.

Before the mountains were born, before you gave birth to the earth and the universe, from eternity past to eternity future, you are God.

3 [When people die], you cause their corpses to become soil again; you change their corpses to become dirt like [the first man] was created from.

You turn people back into dust, saying, “Return to dust, human beings.”

4 When you (consider/think about) time, 1,000 years are [as short as] [SIM] one day which passes; [you consider that] [HYP] they are as short as a few hours in the night.

In your eyes, a thousand years are like a day that's already gone; like a few passing hours of the night.

5 You cause people suddenly to die [MET]; they [live only a short time], like a dream lasts only a short time. They are like grass/weeds [SIM] that grow up.

You bring people's lives to a sudden end, like dreams that vanish. They are like grass that grows up in the morning—

6 In the morning [DOU] the grass sprouts and grows well, but in the evening it dries up and (completely withers/dies).

it sprouts in the morning, fresh and new, but by the evening it is withered and dead.

7 [Similarly], [because of the sins that we have committed], you become angry with us; you terrify us and then you destroy us.

We are burned up by your anger, terrified by your fury.

8 [It is as though] you place our sins in front of you, you spread out even our secret sins where you can see them.

You have set out our sins before you—our secret sins are visible in the light of your presence.

9 Because you are angry with us, you cause our lives to end; the years that we live pass as quickly as a sigh does.

Our lives fade away under your anger, coming to an end as quickly as a sigh.

10 People live for only 70 years; but if they are strong, some of them live for 80 years. But even during good years we have much pain and troubles; our lives soon end, and we die [EUP].

We live for seventy years—eighty if we have the strength. But even in the prime of life all that we have is hardship and suffering. Soon our lives are over and we're gone.

11 No one [RHQ] has fully experienced the powerful things you can do to them when you are angry with them, and people are not afraid that you will greatly punish them because of your being angry with them.

Who can know the power of your anger? Who understands your fury so you can be shown reverence?

12 So teach/help us to realize that we live for only a short time in order that we may [use our time] wisely.

Teach us to value every one of our days so we can live wisely!

13 Yahweh, how long [will you be angry with us]? Pity us who serve you.

Lord, how long will it be before you come back to us and have pity on us your servants?

14 Each morning show us that your faithfully loving us is enough for us in order that we may shout joyfully and be happy for the rest of our lives.

Show us every morning your trustworthy love so we may be happy, full of joy throughout our lives.

15 Cause us to now be as happy for as many years as you (afflicted us/caused us to be sad) and we experienced troubles.

Make us glad for as many days as you made us sad, for all the years we suffered!

16 Enable us to see the [great] things that you do and enable our descendants to [also] see your glorious power.

May we, your servants, see you at work for us again; may our children see your glory.

17 Lord, our God, give us your blessings and enable us to be successful; yes, cause us to be successful in [everything] that we do [DOU]!

May our Lord God be pleased with us, blessing what we do, blessing what we do.