Psalms 90

Psalm title: A Prayer of Moses, the man of God.

1. ¹Lord, *thou* hast been our dwelling-place in all generations.
2. ²Before the mountains were brought forth, and thou hadst formed the earth and the world, even from eternity to eternity thou art God.
3. ³Thou makest [supplied: mortal] man to return to dust, and sayest, Return, children of men.
4. ⁴For a thousand years, in thy sight, are as yesterday when it is past, and [supplied: as] a watch in the night.
5. ⁵Thou carriest them away as with a flood; they are [supplied: as] a sleep: in the morning they are like grass [supplied: that] groweth up:
6. ⁶In the morning it flourisheth and groweth up; in the evening it is cut down and withereth.
7. ⁷For we are consumed by thine anger, and by thy fury are we troubled.
8. ⁸Thou hast set our iniquities before thee, our secret [supplied: sins] in the light of thy countenance.
9. ⁹For all our days pass away in thy wrath: we spend our years as a [supplied: passing] thought.
10. ¹⁰The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if, by reason of strength, they be fourscore years, yet their pride is labour and vanity, for it is soon cut off, and we fly away.
11. ¹¹Who knoweth the power of thine anger? and thy wrath according to the fear of thee?
12. ¹²So teach [supplied: us] to number our days, that we may acquire a wise heart.
13. ¹³Return, Jehovah: how long? and let it repent thee concerning thy servants.
14. ¹⁴Satisfy us early with thy loving-kindness; that we may sing for joy and be glad all our days.
15. ¹⁵Make us glad according to the days [supplied: wherein] thou hast afflicted us, according to the years [supplied: wherein] we have seen evil.
16. ¹⁶Let thy work appear unto thy servants, and thy majesty unto their sons.
17. ¹⁷And let the beauty of Jehovah our God be upon us; and establish thou the work of our hands upon us: yea, the work of our hands, establish thou it.

Words in italics were supplied by the translators.

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