Psalms, 90

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

1. Lord, you have been our refuge through all generations.

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.

2. Before the mountains were formed, before you made the earth and the world, from eternity to eternity - you are God.

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

3. You turn humans back to dust, saying, "Return, O mortals!"

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

4. A thousand years in your sight are like a day that has passed, or like 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 up.

5. You sow them in their time, at dawn they peep out.

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

6. In the morning they blossom, but the flower fades and withers in the evening.

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

7. Your fury consumes us like fire, and we are helpless before your anger.

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

8. Our evils lie before you who scrutinize our hidden sins.

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

9. Our days pass away in your wrath; our years are gone in no time.

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.

10. Seventy years to our life or eighty if we are strong, yet most of them are sorrow and trouble; speeding by, they sweep us along.

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

11. Who knows the extent of your anger? Who has seen the end of your wrath?

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

12. So make us know the shortness of our life, that we may gain wisdom of heart.

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

13. How long will you be angry, O Lord? Have mercy on your servant.

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

14. Fill us at daybreak with your goodness, that we may be glad all our days.

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

15. Make joy endure as the misery did, and the years in which we were afflicted.

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

16. Let your work be seen by your servants and your glorious power by 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.

17. May the sweetness of the Lord be upon us; may he prosper the work of our hands.