Psalm 90 #catechesis/bible/psalm
[!abstract] A prayer for the mercy of God: recounting the shortness and miseries of the days of man.
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GR προσευχὴ τοῦ Μωυσῆ ἀνθρώπου τοῦ θεοῦ κύριε καταφυγὴ ἐγενήθης ἡμῖν ἐν γενεᾷ καὶ γενεᾷ
LA Domine, refugium factus es nobis a generatione in generationem.
EN Lord, you have been our refuge from generation to generation.
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GR πρὸ τοῦ ὄρη γενηθῆναι καὶ πλασθῆναι τὴν γῆν καὶ τὴν οἰκουμένην καὶ ἀπὸ τοῦ αἰῶνος ἕως τοῦ αἰῶνος σὺ εἶ
LA Priusquam montes fierent, aut formaretur terra et orbis, a sæculo et usque in sæculum tu es, Deus.
EN Before the mountains were made, or the earth and the world was formed; from eternity and to eternity you are God.
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GR μὴ ἀποστρέψῃς ἄνθρωπον εἰς ταπείνωσιν καὶ εἶπας ἐπιστρέψατε υἱοὶ ἀνθρώπων
LA Ne avertas hominem in humilitatem: et dixisti: Convertimini, filii hominum.
EN Turn not man away to be brought low: and you have said: Be converted, O you sons of men.
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GR ὅτι χίλια ἔτη ἐν ὀφθαλμοῖς σου ὡς ἡ ἡμέρα ἡ ἐχθές ἥτις διῆλθεν καὶ φυλακὴ ἐν νυκτί
LA Quoniam mille anni ante oculos tuos tamquam dies hesterna quæ præteriit: et custodia in nocte
EN For a thousand years in your sight are as yesterday, which is past. And as a watch in the night,
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GR τὰ ἐξουδενώματα αὐτῶν ἔτη ἔσονται τὸ πρωὶ ὡσεὶ χλόη παρέλθοι
LA quæ pro nihilo habentur, eorum anni erunt.
EN things that are counted nothing, shall their years be.
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GR τὸ πρωὶ ἀνθήσαι καὶ παρέλθοι τὸ ἑσπέρας ἀποπέσοι σκληρυνθείη καὶ ξηρανθείη
LA Mane sicut herba transeat; mane floreat, et transeat; vespere decidat, induret, et arescat.
EN In the morning man shall grow up like grass; in the morning he shall flourish and pass away: in the evening he shall fall, grow dry, and wither.
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GR ὅτι ἐξελίπομεν ἐν τῇ ὀργῇ σου καὶ ἐν τῷ θυμῷ σου ἐταράχθημεν
LA Quia defecimus in ira tua, et in furore tuo turbati sumus.
EN For in your wrath we have fainted away: and are troubled in your indignation.
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GR ἔθου τὰς ἀνομίας ἡμῶν ἐνώπιόν σου ὁ αἰὼν ἡμῶν εἰς φωτισμὸν τοῦ προσώπου σου
LA Posuisti iniquitates nostras in conspectu tuo; sæculum nostrum in illuminatione vultus tui.
EN You have set our iniquities before your eyes: our life in the light of your countenance.
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GR ὅτι πᾶσαι αἱ ἡμέραι ἡμῶν ἐξέλιπον καὶ ἐν τῇ ὀργῇ σου ἐξελίπομεν τὰ ἔτη ἡμῶν ὡς ἀράχνην ἐμελέτων
LA Quoniam omnes dies nostri defecerunt, et in ira tua defecimus. Anni nostri sicut aranea meditabuntur;
EN For all our days are spent; and in your wrath we have fainted away. Our years shall be considered as a spider:
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[!note]- As a spider…
As frail and weak as a spider’s web; and miserable withal, whilst like a spider we spend our bowels in weaving webs to catch flies. Commentary on the Old Testament (1752)
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GR αἱ ἡμέραι τῶν ἐτῶν ἡμῶν ἐν αὐτοῖς ἑβδομήκοντα ἔτη ἐὰν δὲ ἐν δυναστείαις ὀγδοήκοντα ἔτη καὶ τὸ πλεῖον αὐτῶν κόπος καὶ πόνος ὅτι ἐπῆλθεν πραΰτης ἐφ’ ἡμᾶς καὶ παιδευθησόμεθα
LA dies annorum nostrorum in ipsis septuaginta anni. Si autem in potentatibus octoginta anni, et amplius eorum labor et dolor; quoniam supervenit mansuetudo, et corripiemur.
EN The days of our years in them are threescore and ten years. But if in the strong they be fourscore years: and what is more of them is labour and sorrow. For mildness has come upon us: and we shall be corrected.
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GR τίς γινώσκει τὸ κράτος τῆς ὀργῆς σου καὶ ἀπὸ τοῦ φόβου σου τὸν θυμόν σου
LA Quis novit potestatem iræ tuæ, et præ timore tuo iram tuam
EN Who knows the power of your anger, and for your fear
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GR ἐξαριθμήσασθαι τὴν δεξιάν σου οὕτως γνώρισον καὶ τοὺς πεπεδημένους τῇ καρδίᾳ ἐν σοφίᾳ
LA dinumerare? Dexteram tuam sic notam fac, et eruditos corde in sapientia.
EN can number your wrath? So make your right hand known: and men learned in heart, in wisdom.
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GR ἐπίστρεψον κύριε ἕως πότε καὶ παρακλήθητι ἐπὶ τοῖς δούλοις σου
LA Convertere, Domine; usquequo? et deprecabilis esto super servos tuos.
EN Return, O Lord, how long? And be entreated in favour of your servants.
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GR ἐνεπλήσθημεν τὸ πρωὶ τοῦ ἐλέους σου καὶ ἠγαλλιασάμεθα καὶ εὐφράνθημεν ἐν πάσαις ταῖς ἡμέραις ἡμῶν
LA Repleti sumus mane misericordia tua; et exsultavimus, et delectati sumus omnibus diebus nostris.
EN We are filled in the morning with your mercy: and we have rejoiced, and are delighted all our days.
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GR εὐφράνθημεν ἀνθ’ ὧν ἡμερῶν ἐταπείνωσας ἡμᾶς ἐτῶν ὧν εἴδομεν κακά
LA Lætati sumus pro diebus quibus nos humiliasti; annis quibus vidimus mala.
EN We have rejoiced for the days in which you have humbled us: for the years in which we have seen evils.
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GR καὶ ἰδὲ ἐπὶ τοὺς δούλους σου καὶ τὰ ἔργα σου καὶ ὁδήγησον τοὺς υἱοὺς αὐτῶν
LA Respice in servos tuos et in opera tua, et dirige filios eorum.
EN Look upon your servants and upon their works: and direct their children.
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GR καὶ ἔστω ἡ λαμπρότης κυρίου τοῦ θεοῦ ἡμῶν ἐφ’ ἡμᾶς καὶ τὰ ἔργα τῶν χειρῶν ἡμῶν κατεύθυνον ἐφ’ ἡμᾶς
LA Et sit splendor Domini Dei nostri super nos, et opera manuum nostrarum dirige super nos, et opus manuum nostrarum dirige.
EN And let the brightness of the Lord our God be upon us: and direct the works of our hands over us; yea, the work of our hands do you direct.
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[!note]- Turn not man away, etc…
Suffer him not quite to perish from thee, since thou art pleased to call upon him to be converted to thee. Commentary on the Old Testament (1752)
[!note]- Mildness is come upon us, etc…
God’s mildness corrects us; inasmuch as he deals kindly with us, in shortening the days of this miserable life; and so weaning our affections from all its transitory enjoyments, and teaching us true wisdom. Commentary on the Old Testament (1752)
