Psalms 90

1 A prayer of Moses, the man of God. O Lord, you have been our refuge from generation to generation.

Lord, you have been our dwelling place in all generations.

2 Before the mountains became, or the land was formed along with the world: from ages past, even to all ages, you are God.

Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever you had formed the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting, you are God.

3 And, lest man be turned aside in humiliation, you have said: Be converted, O sons of men.

You turn man to destruction; and say, Return, you children of men.

4 For a thousand years before your eyes are like the days of yesterday, which have passed by, and they are like a watch of the night,

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

5 which was held for nothing: so their years shall be.

You carry them away as with a flood; they are as a sleep: in the morning they are like grass which grows up.

6 In the morning, he may pass away like grass; in the morning, he may flower and pass away. In the evening, he will fall, and harden, and become dry.

In the morning it flourishes, and grows up; in the evening it is cut down, and wither.

7 For, at your wrath, we have withered away, and we have been disturbed by your fury.

For we are consumed by your anger, and by your wrath are we troubled.

8 You have placed our iniquities in your sight, our age in the illumination of your countenance.

You have set our iniquities before you, our secret sins in the light of your countenance.

9 For all our days have faded away, and at your wrath, we have fainted. Our years will be considered to be like a spider’s web.

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

10 The days of our years in them are seventy years. But in the powerful, they are eighty years, and more of these are with hardship and sorrow. For mildness has overwhelmed us, and we shall be corrected.

The days of our years are three score years and ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labor and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away.

11 Who knows the power of your wrath? And, before fear, can your wrath

Who knows the power of your anger? even according to your fear, so is your wrath.

12 be numbered? So make known your right hand, along with men learned in heart, in wisdom.

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

13 Return, O Lord, how long? And may you be persuaded on behalf of your servants.

Return, O LORD, how long? and let it repent you concerning your servants.

14 We were filled in the morning with your mercy, and we exulted and delighted all our days.

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

15 We have been rejoicing, because of the days in which you humbled us, because of the years in which we saw evils.

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

16 Look down upon your servants and upon their works, and direct their sons.

Let your work appear to your servants, and your glory to their children.

17 And may the splendor of the Lord our God be upon us. And so, direct the works of our hands over us; direct even the work of our hands.

And let the beauty of the LORD our God be on us: and establish you the work of our hands on us; yes, the work of our hands establish you it.