Psalms 90 — parallel

90:1

Laus cantici David. Qui habitat in adjutorio Altissimi, in protectione Dei cæli commorabitur.

A prayer of Moses the man of God. Lord, You have been our dwelling place through all generations.

90:2

Dicet Domino : Susceptor meus es tu, et refugium meum ; Deus meus, sperabo in eum.

Before the mountains were born or You brought forth the earth and the world, from everlasting to everlasting You are God.

90:3

Quoniam ipse liberavit me de laqueo venantium, et a verbo aspero.

You return man to dust, saying, “Return, O sons of mortals.”

90:4

Scapulis suis obumbrabit tibi, et sub pennis ejus sperabis.

For in Your sight a thousand years are but a day that , or a watch of the night.

90:5

Scuto circumdabit te veritas ejus : non timebis a timore nocturno ;

You sweep them away in their sleep; they are like the new grass of the morning—

90:6

a sagitta volante in die, a negotio perambulante in tenebris, ab incursu, et dæmonio meridiano.

in the morning it springs up new, but by evening it fades and withers.

90:7

Cadent a latere tuo mille, et decem millia a dextris tuis ; ad te autem non appropinquabit.

For we are consumed by Your anger and terrified by Your wrath.

90:8

Verumtamen oculis tuis considerabis, et retributionem peccatorum videbis.

You have set our iniquities before You, our secret sins in the light of Your presence.

90:9

Quoniam tu es, Domine, spes mea ; Altissimum posuisti refugium tuum.

For all our days decline in Your fury; we finish our years with a sigh.