Psalms 90
90
God, the Eternal
A prayer of Moses, God’s prophet
1Lord, you have always been our eternal home,
our hiding place from generation to generation.
2Long before you gave birth to the earth
and before the mountains were born,
you have been from everlasting to everlasting, # 90:2 The Hebrew word often rendered “eternity” [“everlasting”] is ‘olam, which can be translated “beyond the horizon.”
the one and only true God.
3When you speak the words “Life, return to me!”
man turns back to dust.
4One thousand years pass before your eyes
like yesterday that quickly faded away,
like a night’s sleep soon forgotten. # 90:4 Or “like divisions [watches] of the night.”
5-6One day we will each be swept away into the sleep of death.
We glide along through the tides of time—
so quickly gone, like a dream that fades at dawn, # 90:5–6 A poetic description of what is implied in the context.
like glistening grass that springs up one day
and is dry and withered the next, ready to be cut down!
7Terrified by your anger, confined beneath the curse,
we live our lives knowing your wrath. # 90:7 Or “worn out by your rage.” Jesus has come and broken the curse and lifted the unbearable burden of our sins.
8For all of our faults and flaws are in full view to you. # 90:8 The Septuagint reads “The laws we have broken all stand before you.”
Everything we want to hide, you search out
and expose by the radiance of your face.
9We are banished to live in the shadow of your anger.
Our days soon become years until our lifetime comes to an end,
finished with nothing but a sigh. # 90:9 The Septuagint reads “All our days have been filled with failures.”
10You’ve limited our life span to a mere seventy years,
yet some you give grace to live still longer. # 90:10 Or “if in strength eighty years.”
But even the best of years are marred by tears and toils
and in the end are nothing more than a gravestone in a graveyard! # 90:10 A poetic description of what is implied in the context. The Septuagint has the phrase “until we mellow and accept your correction.”
We’re gone so quickly, so swiftly;
we pass away and simply disappear.
11Lord, who fully knows the power of your passion
and the intensity of your emotions? # 90:11 As translated from the Aramaic. The Hebrew can be translated “Who could experience the strength of your anger? Who could endure the fear your fury can bring, and who truly comprehends the fear of God?”
12Help us to remember that our days are numbered,
and help us to interpret our lives correctly.
Set your wisdom deeply in our hearts
so that we may accept your correction. # 90:12 As translated from the Septuagint.
13Return to us again, O God!
How much longer will it take until you show us
your abundant compassion?
14Let the sunrise of your love end our dark night.
Break through our clouded dawn again!
Only you can satisfy our hearts,
filling us with songs of joy to the end of our days.
15We’ve been overwhelmed with grief;
come now and overwhelm us with gladness.
Replace our years of trouble with decades of delight.
16Let us see your miracles again, and let the rising generation
see the glorious wonders you’re famous for.
17O Lord our God, let your sweet beauty # 90:17 Or “favor.” rest upon us.
Come work with us, and then our works will endure;
you will give us success in all we do.
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90
God’s Eternity and Human Frailty
1A prayer of Moses, the man of God.
I
Lord, you have been our refuge
through all generations.
2Before the mountains were born,
the earth and the world brought forth,
from eternity to eternity you are God.#Ps 48:15; 55:20; 93:2; 102:13; Heb 1:12.
3You turn humanity back into dust,#Dust: one word of God is enough to return mortals to the dust from which they were created. Human beings were created from earth in Gn 2:7; 3:19.
saying, “Return, you children of Adam!”#Ps 103:14; 104:29; 146:4; Gn 3:19; 1 Mc 2:63; Jb 34:14–15; Eccl 3:20; 12:7; Sir 40:11.
4A thousand years in your eyes
are merely a day gone by,#2 Pt 3:8.
Before a watch passes in the night,
5#You wash them away: the Hebrew of Ps 90:4–5 is unclear.you wash them away;#Ps 89:48.
They sleep,
and in the morning they sprout again like an herb.
6In the morning it blooms only to pass away;
in the evening it is wilted and withered.#It is wilted and withered: the transitory nature of the grass under the scorching sun was proverbial, cf. Ps 129:6; Is 40:6–8.#Ps 37:2; 102:11; 103:15–16; Jb 14:1–2; Is 40:6–8.
II
7Truly we are consumed by your anger,
filled with terror by your wrath.
8You have kept our faults before you,
our hidden sins in the light of your face.#Ps 109:14–15; Hos 7:2.
9Our life ebbs away under your wrath;#Ps 39:5–7; 62:10; 102:24–25; 144:4; Gn 6:3; Jb 7:6, 16; 14:5; Prv 10:27; Eccl 6:12; Wis 2:5; Sir 18:8; Is 65:20.
our years end like a sigh.
10Seventy is the sum of our years,
or eighty, if we are strong;
Most of them are toil and sorrow;
they pass quickly, and we are gone.
11Who comprehends the strength of your anger?
Your wrath matches the fear it inspires.
12Teach us to count our days aright,
that we may gain wisdom of heart.
III
13Relent, O Lord! How long?
Have pity on your servants!
14Fill us at daybreak with your mercy,#Ps 17:15.
that all our days we may sing for joy.
15Make us glad as many days as you humbled us,
for as many years as we have seen trouble.#Nm 14:34; Jer 31:13.
16Show your deeds to your servants,
your glory to their children.
17May the favor of the Lord our God be ours.#Ps 33:22.
Prosper the work of our hands!
Prosper the work of our hands!
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