90 O Lord, you have been our help^[b] in all generations.^[c]
2 Before the mountains were born
and you brought forth the earth and the world,
even from everlasting to everlasting, you are God.
³ You return man to the dust,
saying,^[d] “Return, O sons of man.”
⁴ For a thousand years in your eyes
are like yesterday when it passes,
or like a watch in the night.
⁵ You sweep them away like a flood.
They fall asleep.^[e]
In the morning they are like grass that sprouts anew.
⁶ In the morning it blossoms and sprouts anew;
by evening it withers and dries up.
⁷ For we are brought to an end by your anger,
and we hasten off^[f] by your wrath.
⁸ You have put our iniquities before you,
our hidden sins into the light of your countenance.
⁹ For all of our days dwindle away in your rage;
we complete our years like a sigh.
¹⁰ As for the days of our years, within them are seventy years
or if by strength eighty years, and their pride^[g] is trouble and disaster,
for it passes quickly and we fly away.
¹¹ Who knows the strength of your anger,
and your rage consistent with^[h] the fear due you?
¹² So teach us to number our days
that we may gain a heart of wisdom.
¹³ Return,^[i] O Yahweh. How long?
And have compassion on^[j] your servants.
¹⁴ Satisfy us in the morning with your loyal love,
that we may sing for joy and be glad all our days.
¹⁵ Make us glad for as many days as you have afflicted us,
for as many years as we have seen calamity.
¹⁶ Let your work be visible to your servants,
and your majesty to their children.
¹⁷ And let the beauty of the Lord our God be upon us,
and establish for us the work of our hands,
yes, the work of our hands, establish it.