Psalms 90

NEW AMERICAN BIBLE	KING JAMES BIBLE
1 A prayer of Moses, the man of God. Lord, you have been our refuge through all generations.	1 LORD, thou hast been our dwelling place in all generations.
2 Before the mountains were born, the earth and the world brought forth, from eternity to eternity you are God.	2 Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever thou hadst formed the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting, thou art God.
3 But humans you return to dust, saying, "Return, you mortals!"	3 Thou turnest man to destruction; and sayest, Return, ye children of men.
4 A thousand years in your eyes are merely a yesterday,	4 For a thousand years in thy sight are but as yesterday when it is past, and as a watch in the night.
5 you have brought them to their end; They disappear like sleep at dawn; they are like grass that dies.	5 Thou carriest them away as with a flood; they are as a sleep: in the morning they are like grass which groweth up.
6 It sprouts green in the morning; by evening it is dry and withered.	6 In the morning it flourisheth, and groweth up; in the evening it is cut down, and withereth.
7 Truly we are consumed by your anger, filled with terror by your wrath.	7 For we are consumed by thine anger, and by thy wrath are we troubled.
8 You have kept our faults before you, our hidden sins exposed to your sight.	8 Thou hast set our iniquities before thee, our secret sins in the light of thy countenance.
9 Our life ebbs away under your wrath; our years end like a sigh.	9 For all our days are passed away in thy wrath: we spend our years as a tale that is told.
10 Seventy is the sum of our years, or eighty, if we are strong; Most of them are sorrow and toil; they pass quickly, we are all but gone.	10 The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labour and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away.
11 Who comprehends your terrible anger? Your wrath matches the fear it inspires.	11 Who knoweth the power of thine anger? even according to thy fear, so is thy wrath.
12 Teach us to count our days aright, that we may gain wisdom of heart.	12 So teach us to number our days, that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom.
13 Relent, O LORD! How long? Have pity on your servants!	13 Return, O LORD, how long? and let it repent thee concerning thy servants.
14 Fill us at daybreak with your love, that all our days we may sing for joy.	14 O satisfy us early with thy mercy; that we may rejoice and be glad all our days.
15 Make us glad as many days as you humbled us, for as many years as we have seen trouble.	15 Make us glad according to the days wherein thou hast afflicted us, and the years wherein we have seen evil.
16 Show your deeds to your servants, your glory to their children.	16 Let thy work appear unto thy servants, and thy glory unto their children.
17 May the favor of the Lord our God be ours. Prosper the work of our hands! Prosper the work of our hands!	17 And let the beauty of the LORD our God be upon us: and establish thou the work of our hands upon us; yea, the work of our hands establish thou it.