Psalm 90

Modern

Literal

BOOK IV

Psalms 90–106

From Everlasting to Everlasting

¹A prayer of Moses the man of God.

Lord, You have been our dwelling place

through all generations.

¹A Prayer of Moses, the man of God. Lord, You have been a dwelling place for us, in generation and generation.

²Before the mountains were born

or You brought forth the earth and the world,

from everlasting to everlasting

You are God.

²In the time before the mountains were brought forth, or You formed the earth and the world, and from forever even to forever, You are God.

³You return man to dust,

saying, “Return, O sons of mortals.”

³You return man to dust and say, “Return, O sons of men!”

⁴For in Your sight a thousand years

are but a day that passes,^a

or a watch of the night.

⁴For a thousand years in your eyes are like a day past that passes, or a watch in the night.

⁵You sweep them away in their sleep;

they are like the new grass of the morning—

⁵You sweep them away; they are in their sleep like the grass that sprouts up in the morning.

⁶in the morning it springs up new,

but by evening it fades and withers.

⁶In the morning it blossoms and flourishes; in the evening it is cut down and withers.

⁷For we are consumed by Your anger

and terrified by Your wrath.

⁷For we are consumed by Your anger, and by Your wrath we are terrified.

⁸You have set our iniquities before You,

our secret sins in the light of Your presence.

⁸You have set our iniquities before You, our hidden things in the light of Your face.

⁹For all our days decline in Your fury;

we finish our years with a sigh.

⁹For all our days decline in Your fury; we finish our years as a sigh.

¹⁰The length of our days is seventy years—

or eighty if we are strong—

yet their pride is but labor and sorrow,

for they quickly pass, and we fly away.

¹⁰The days of our years, in them are seventy years, or if by strength eighty years; yet their pride is toil and trouble—for it is cut off soon, and we fly away.

¹¹Who knows the power of Your anger?

Your wrath matches the fear You are due.

¹¹Who knows the power of Your anger, for as the fear of You is Your wrath?

¹²So teach us to number our days,

that we may present a heart of wisdom.

¹²So teach us to number our days, that we may bring in a heart of wisdom.

¹³Return, O LORD! How long will it be?

Have compassion on Your servants.

¹³Turn back, O YHWH—until when?—And have compassion on Your servants!

¹⁴Satisfy us in the morning with Your loving devotion,

that we may sing for joy and be glad all our days.

¹⁴Satisfy us in the morning with Your loving devotion, that we may sing for joy and be glad in all our days.

¹⁵Make us glad for as many days as You have afflicted us,

for as many years as we have seen evil.

¹⁵Let us be glad according to the days You have afflicted us—the years we have seen evil.

¹⁶May Your work be shown to Your servants,

and Your splendor to their children.

¹⁶Let Your work be shown to Your servants, and Your splendor upon their sons.

¹⁷May the favor^a of the Lord our God rest upon us;

establish for us the work of our hands—

yes, establish the work of our hands!

¹⁷And may the favor of YHWH our God come to be upon us, and may You support the work of our hands upon us—and the work of our hands establish!