Psalms 90
1 Lord, you have always (been [like] a home for us/protected us) [MET].
BOOK FOURTH: “A prayer of Moses the man of God.” Lord, a place of refuge hast thou been unto us in all generations.
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 yet the mountains were brought forth, or thou hadst ever produced the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting, thou art 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.
Thou turnest man to contrition, and sayest, Return ye children of men.
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.
For a thousand years are in thy eyes but as the yesterday when it is past, and as a watch in 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.
Thou carriest them away as with a flood; they are as a sleep: in the morning [they grow] like the grass which changeth.
6 In the morning [DOU] the grass sprouts and grows well, but in the evening it dries up and (completely withers/dies).
In the morning it blossometh, and is changed: in the evening it is mowed off, and withereth.
7 [Similarly], [because of the sins that we have committed], you become angry with us; you terrify us and then you destroy us.
For [thus] are we consumed by thy anger, and by thy fury are we terrified.
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.
Thou hast set our iniquities before thee, our concealed sins before the light of thy countenance.
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.
For all our days are passed away in thy wrath: we consume our years like a word that is spoken.
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].
The days of our years in this life are seventy years; and if by uncommon vigor they be eighty, yet is their greatness trouble and mishap; for it soon hasteneth off, and we fly away.
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 knoweth the strength of thy anger, and thy wrath which is like the fear of thee?
12 So teach/help us to realize that we live for only a short time in order that we may [use our time] wisely.
Let us then know how to number our days, that we may obtain a heart endowed with wisdom.
13 Yahweh, how long [will you be angry with us]? Pity us who serve you.
Return, O Lord, how long yet? and bethink thee concerning thy 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.
O satisfy us in the morning with thy kindness, that we may be glad and rejoice throughout all our days.
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.
Cause us to rejoice as many days as those wherein thou hast afflicted us, the years wherein we have seen unhappiness.
16 Enable us to see the [great] things that you do and enable our descendants to [also] see your glorious power.
Let thy act be visible on thy servants, and thy majesty over their children.
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]!
And may the beauty of the Lord our God be upon us; and the work of our hands do thou firmly establish upon us: yea, the work of our hands—firmly establish thou it.
