## Psalms Chapter 90

###### Psalms 90:1
[Psalms 90:1](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Psalms/r/90:1)

תְּפִלָּה֮ לְמֹשֶׁ֢ה אִֽישׁ־הָאֱלֹ֫הִ֥ים אֲֽדֹנָ֗י מָע֣וֹן אַ֭תָּה הָיִ֥יתָ לָּ֗נוּ בְּדֹ֣ר וָדֹֽר׃

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
A Prayer of Moshe the man of God. Lord, Thou hast been our dwelling place in all generations.

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
A prayer of Moses, the man [i.e., the prophet] of G d. O L rd, You were an abode [(i.e., a shelter)] to us throughout the generations.


###### Psalms 90:2
[Psalms 90:2](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Psalms/r/90:2)

בְּטֶ֤רֶם**׀** הָ֘רִ֤ים יֻלָּ֗דוּ וַתְּח֣וֹלֵֽל אֶ֣רֶץ וְתֵבֵ֑ל וּֽמֵעוֹלָ֥ם עַד־ע֝וֹלָ֗ם אַתָּ֥ה אֵֽל׃

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
Before the mountains were brought forth, and before ever Thou hadst formed the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting, Thou art God.

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
Before the mountains were born and the earth and the world were formed, and from [the first] world until [the last] world, You are the Almighty.


###### Psalms 90:3
[Psalms 90:3](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Psalms/r/90:3)

תָּשֵׁ֣ב אֱ֭נוֹשׁ עַד־דַּכָּ֑א וַ֝תֹּ֗אמֶר שׁ֣וּבוּ בְנֵֽי־אָדָֽם׃

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
Thou turnest man back to dust; and sayst, Return, you children of men.

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
You turn a man to the crushing point [with afflictions], saying: "Repent, sons of man!"


###### Psalms 90:4
[Psalms 90:4](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Psalms/r/90:4)

כִּ֤י אֶ֪לֶף שָׁנִ֡ים בְּֽעֵינֶ֗יךָ כְּי֣וֹם אֶ֭תְמוֹל כִּ֣י יַעֲבֹ֑ר וְאַשְׁמוּרָ֥ה בַלָּֽיְלָה׃

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
For a thousand years in Thy sight are but like yesterday when it is past, and like a watch in the night.

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
For a thousand years [(a man's life span at the creation)] in Your eyes are as yesterday's day which has [already passed], and [i.e., in addition to] a watch in the night.


###### Psalms 90:5
[Psalms 90:5](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Psalms/r/90:5)

זְ֭רַמְתָּם שֵׁנָ֣ה יִהְי֑וּ בַּ֝בֹּ֗קֶר כֶּחָצִ֥יר יַחֲלֹֽף׃

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
Thou engulfest them; they are like sleepers; they are like the short lived grass in the morning.

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
Their flooding [i.e., the "snatching away" of those thousand years of a man's life and condensing them to seventy [(see verse 10)] are like a sleep [(The seventy years of the Babylonian exile are like a sleep [viz. Psalms 126:1)]. [One who is born at night] passes away like the grass [at the end of his "dream"].


###### Psalms 90:6
[Psalms 90:6](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Psalms/r/90:6)

בַּ֭בֹּקֶר יָצִ֣יץ וְחָלָ֑ף לָ֝עֶ֗רֶב יְמוֹלֵ֥ל וְיָבֵֽשׁ׃

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
In the morning it flourishes, and fades; by evening it is withered and dry.

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
[And if] in the morning he blossoms, he [immediately] passes away; in the evening he withers and dries up.


###### Psalms 90:7
[Psalms 90:7](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Psalms/r/90:7)

כִּי־כָלִ֥ינוּ בְאַפֶּ֑ךָ וּֽבַחֲמָתְךָ֥ נִבְהָֽלְנוּ׃

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
For we are consumed by Thy anger, and by Thy wrath are we terrified.

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
[And with all this,] we have been consumed in Your wrath and confounded in Your ire.


###### Psalms 90:8
[Psalms 90:8](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Psalms/r/90:8)

שַׁתָּ֣ עֲוֺנֹתֵ֣ינוּ לְנֶגְדֶּ֑ךָ עֲ֝לֻמֵ֗נוּ לִמְא֥וֹר פָּנֶֽיךָ׃

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
Thou hast set our iniquities before Thee, our secret sins in the light of Thy countenance.

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
You have placed our transgressions before You [for retribution], [the sins of] our youth before the ["searching"] light of Your countenance.


###### Psalms 90:9
[Psalms 90:9](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Psalms/r/90:9)

כִּ֣י כׇל־יָ֭מֵינוּ פָּנ֣וּ בְעֶבְרָתֶ֑ךָ כִּלִּ֖ינוּ שָׁנֵ֣ינוּ כְמוֹ־הֶֽגֶה׃

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
For all our days are passed away in Thy wrath: we spend our years like a tale that is told.

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
For all of our days have passed in Your wrath. We have consumed our years as a [fleeting] utterance.


###### Psalms 90:10
[Psalms 90:10](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Psalms/r/90:10)

יְמֵֽי־שְׁנוֹתֵ֨ינוּ בָהֶ֥ם שִׁבְעִ֪ים שָׁנָ֡ה וְאִ֤ם בִּגְבוּרֹ֨ת**׀** שְׁמ֘וֹנִ֤ים שָׁנָ֗ה וְ֭רׇהְבָּם עָמָ֣ל וָאָ֑וֶן כִּי־גָ֥ז חִ֝֗ישׁ וַנָּעֻֽפָה׃

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
The days of our years are seventy; or if by reason of special strength, eighty years; yet their pride is but trouble and wretchedness; it is soon cut off, and we fly away.

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
The days of our years [(in our transgressions and in the sins of our youth)] are seventy years, and (if) with increase, eighty years. And all of their "pride" is toil and vanity, for they quickly pass and we are fled [(in the midst of the wrath)].


###### Psalms 90:11
[Psalms 90:11](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Psalms/r/90:11)

מִֽי־י֭וֹדֵעַ עֹ֣ז אַפֶּ֑ךָ וּ֝כְיִרְאָתְךָ֗ עֶבְרָתֶֽךָ׃

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
Who knows the power of Thy anger? even according to Thy fear, so is Thy wrath.

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
[In these "few days,"] who can [acquire a heart to] know the strength of Your might [and fear You accordingly]? And [You,] as You are fearful, [so is the intensity of] Your wrath!


###### Psalms 90:12
[Psalms 90:12](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Psalms/r/90:12)

לִמְנ֣וֹת יָ֭מֵינוּ כֵּ֣ן הוֹדַ֑ע וְ֝נָבִ֗א לְבַ֣ב חׇכְמָֽה׃

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
So teach us to number our days, that we may get a heart of wisdom.

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
[As in the beginning, so now,] apprise [us of the increase of] the number of our days, so that we may bring [to our days] a heart of wisdom.


###### Psalms 90:13
[Psalms 90:13](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Psalms/r/90:13)

שׁוּבָ֣ה יְ֭הֹוָה עַד־מָתָ֑י וְ֝הִנָּחֵ֗ם עַל־עֲבָדֶֽיךָ׃

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
Return, O Lord, how long? and relent concerning Thy servants.

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
Turn, O L rd [from Your wrath]. How long [will You rage]? And repent Yourself [to think favorably] of Your servants.


###### Psalms 90:14
[Psalms 90:14](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Psalms/r/90:14)

שַׂבְּעֵ֣נוּ בַבֹּ֣קֶר חַסְדֶּ֑ךָ וּֽנְרַנְּנָ֥ה וְ֝נִשְׂמְחָ֗ה בְּכׇל־יָמֵֽינוּ׃

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
O satisfy us in the morning with Thy steadfast love; that we may rejoice and be glad all our days.

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
Sate us in the "morning" [of the redemption] with Your lovingkindness, and we will sing [Your praises] and rejoice in all [of the afflictions that we suffered in] our [dark] days.


###### Psalms 90:15
[Psalms 90:15](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Psalms/r/90:15)

שַׂ֭מְּחֵנוּ כִּימ֣וֹת עִנִּיתָ֑נוּ שְׁ֝נ֗וֹת רָאִ֥ינוּ רָעָֽה׃

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
Make us glad according to the days wherein Thou hast afflicted us, and the years in which we have seen evil.

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
Cause us to rejoice [(in the days of the Messiah)] as [the number of] the days of our affliction, as [the number of] years in which we saw evil.


###### Psalms 90:16
[Psalms 90:16](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Psalms/r/90:16)

יֵרָאֶ֣ה אֶל־עֲבָדֶ֣יךָ פׇעֳלֶ֑ךָ וַ֝הֲדָרְךָ֗ עַל־בְּנֵיהֶֽם׃

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
Let Thy work appear to Thy servants, and Thy glory to their children.

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
May Your acts [of redemption] be witnessed by Your servants, and [let] Your glory [repose] upon their children.


###### Psalms 90:17
[Psalms 90:17](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Psalms/r/90:17)

וִיהִ֤י**׀** נֹ֤עַם אֲדֹנָ֥י אֱלֹהֵ֗ינוּ עָ֫לֵ֥ינוּ וּמַעֲשֵׂ֣ה יָ֭דֵינוּ כּוֹנְנָ֥ה עָלֵ֑ינוּ וּֽמַעֲשֵׂ֥ה יָ֝דֵ֗ינוּ כּוֹנְנֵֽהוּ׃{פ}

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
And let the beauty of the Lord our God be upon us: and establish the work of our hands upon us; O prosper it, the work of our hands.

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
And may the pleasantness of the L rd our G d [(His shechinah and His consolations)] be upon us. And establish the work of our hands [(the tabernacle)] upon us [(that the shechinah reside therein)], and the work of our hands [(in our daily lives)] establish it [(that blessing repose upon it)].