Psalms 90

1 A Prayer of Moses the man of God. Lord, thou hast been our dwelling place in all generations.

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

2 Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever thou hadst formed the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting, thou art God.

Before the mountains were born, or the earth and the world were brought forth, from everlasting to everlasting you are God.

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

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

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

For you see a thousand years as the passing of yesterday, as a watch in the night.

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

Your floods sweep them away; they are like a dream, or like grass which sprouts in the morning,

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

16 Let thy work appear to thy servants, and thy glory to their children.

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

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

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