90:1 A Prayer of Moses, the man of God. |
90:2 Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever You had formed the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting You are God. |
90:3 You turn man over to destruction, and say, "Return, you children of men." |
90:4 For a thousand years in Your sight are as yesterday when it is past, and as a watch in the night. |
90:5 You carry them away as with a flood; they are as a sleep; in the morning they are like grass which grows up. |
90:6 In the morning it sprouts and shoots up; in the evening it is cut down and dries up, |
90:7 For we are consumed by Your anger, and by Your wrath we are troubled. |
90:8 You have set our iniquities before You, our secret sins in the light of Your face, |
90:9 For all our days pass away in Your wrath; we finish our years as with a sigh. |
90:10 The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength they are fourscore years, yet their span is but trouble and sorrow, for it is soon cut off and we fly away. |
90:11 Who knows the power of Your anger, and Your wrath according to the fear that is due to You? |
90:12 So teach us to number our days that we may apply our hearts to wisdom. |
90:13 Return, O LORD! How long? And show compassion to Your servants. |
90:14 O satisfy us in the morning with Your mercy, so that we may rejoice and be glad all our days. |
90:15 Make us glad according to the days wherein you have afflicted us, the years in which we have seen evil. |
90:16 Let Your work appear unto Your servants and Your glory unto their children. |
90:17 And let the graciousness of the LORD our God be upon us; and establish the work of our hands upon us; yea, the work of our hands, establish it. |