Psalm

90 O Jehovah,* you yourself have proved to be a real dwelling for us+

During generation after generation.+

 2 Before the mountains themselves were born,+

Or you proceeded to bring forth as with labor pains the earth+ and the productive land,*+

Even from time indefinite to time indefinite you are God.*+

 3 You make mortal man* go back to crushed matter,*+

And you say: “GO back, YOU sons of men.”*+

 4 For a thousand years are in your eyes but as yesterday when it is past,+

And as a watch during the night.+

 5 You have swept them away;+ they become a mere sleep;+

In the morning [they are] just like green grass that changes.+

 6 In the morning it puts forth blossoms and must change;+

At evening it withers and certainly dries up.+

 7 For we have come to an end in your anger,+

And by your rage we have been disturbed.+

 8 You have set our errors right in front of you,+

Our hidden things before your bright face.*+

 9 For all our days have come to their decline in your fury;+

We have finished our years just like a whisper.+

10 In themselves the days of our years are seventy years;+

And if because of special mightiness they are eighty years,+

Yet their insistence is on trouble and hurtful things;+

For it must quickly pass by, and away we fly.+

11 Who is there knowing the strength of your anger+

And your fury according to the fear of you?+

12 Show [us] just how to count our days in such a way+

That we may bring a heart of wisdom+ in.

13 Do return, O Jehovah!+ How long will it be?+

And feel regret over your servants.+

14 Satisfy us in the morning with your loving-kindness,*+

That we may cry out joyfully and may rejoice during all our days.+

15 Make us rejoice correspondingly to the days that you have afflicted us,+

The years that we have seen calamity.+

16 May your activity appear to your own servants+

And your splendor upon their sons.+

17 And let the pleasantness of Jehovah* our God prove to be upon us,+

And the work of our hands do you firmly establish upon us.+

Yes, the work of our hands, do you firmly establish it.+