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90:1  A Prayer of Moses the man of God. Lord, You have been our dwelling place [our refuge, our sanctuary, our stability] in all generations.
90:2  Before the mountains were born Or before You had given birth to the earth and the world, Even from everlasting to everlasting, You are [the eternal] God.
90:3  You turn man back to dust, And say, “Return [to the earth], O children of [mortal] men!”
90:4  For a thousand years in Your sight Are like yesterday when it is past, Or as a watch in the night.
90:5  You have swept them away like a flood, they fall asleep [forgotten as soon as they are gone]; In the morning they are like grass which grows anew—
90:6  In the morning it flourishes and springs up; In the evening it wilts and withers away.
90:7  For we have been consumed by Your anger And by Your wrath we have been terrified.
90:8  You have placed our wickedness before you, Our secret sins [which we tried to conceal, You have placed] in the [revealing] light of Your presence.
90:9  For all our days pass away in Your wrath; We have finished our years like a whispered sigh.
90:10  The days of our life are seventy years— Or even, if because of strength, eighty years; Yet their pride [in additional years] is only labor and sorrow, For it is soon gone and we fly away.
90:11  Who understands the power of Your anger? [Who connects this brevity of life among us with Your judgment of sin?] And Your wrath, [who connects it] with the [reverent] fear that is due You?
90:12  So teach us to number our days, That we may cultivate and bring to You a heart of wisdom.
90:13  Turn, O Lord [from Your fierce anger]; how long will it be? Be compassionate toward Your servants—revoke Your sentence.
90:14  O satisfy us with Your lovingkindness in the morning [now, before we grow older], That we may rejoice and be glad all our days.
90:15  Make us glad in proportion to the days You have afflicted us, And the years we have suffered evil.
90:16  Let Your work [the signs of Your power] be revealed to Your servants And Your [glorious] majesty to their children.
90:17  And let the [gracious] favor of the Lord our God be on us; Confirm for us the work of our hands— Yes, confirm the work of our hands.