---
title: Joseph Smith Translation (1867 edition)
description: Psalms from the Joseph Smith Translation (JST), 1867 edition.
authors:
  - Smith, Joseph, Jr.
collections:
  - joseph-smith
tags:
  - translation
published: "1867"
publisher: RLDS Publication Board
publisher_place: Plano, Illinois
publisher_note: "The title page reads: Published by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints; Joseph Smith, I. L. Rogers, E. Robinson, Publishing Committee; 1867."
edition: First edition (Plano, 1867)
language: en
type: book
chapter: 90
verse_count: 17
reference: "Joseph Smith Jr., *Joseph Smith Translation*, first edition (Plano, IL: RLDS Publication Board, 1867), Psalms, chap. 90, https://archive.org/details/holyscripturestr00smituoft."
source:
  url: https://archive.org/details/holyscripturestr00smituoft
  identifier: holyscripturestr00smituoft
  scan: University of Toronto / Trinity College Library copy, Internet Archive
  transcription: "OCR text of the 1867 scans (Toronto copy and a second copy, holyscriptures00smit), reconciled word by word; Romans was also checked against the page images. Method, per-chapter validation log and known limits: docs/jst-1867-import.md."
rights:
  status: public-domain
  basis: 1867 US publication
  source: https://archive.org/details/holyscripturestr00smituoft
  publication_year: 1867
---

# Psalms 90

*The prayer of Moses. A Prayer of Moses the man of God.*

**1** Lord, thou hast been our dwelling-place in all generations.
**2** Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever thou hadst formed the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting, thou art God.
**3** Thou turnest man to destruction; and sayest, Return, ye children of men.
**4** For a thousand years in thy sight are but as yesterday when it is past, and as a watch in the night.
**5** Thou carriest them away as with a flood; they are as a sleep; in the morning they are like grass which groweth up.
**6** In the morning it flourisheth, and groweth up; in the evening it is cut down, and withereth.
**7** For we are consumed by thine anger, and by thy wrath are we troubled.
**8** Thou hast set our iniquities before thee, our secret sins in the light of thy countenance.
**9** For all our days are passed away in thy wrath; we spend our years as a tale that is told.
**10** The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength they be four-score years, yet is their strength labour and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away.
**11** Who knoweth the power of thine anger? even according to thy fear, so is thy wrath.
**12** So teach us to number our days, that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom.
**13** Return us, O Lord. How long wilt thou hide thy face from thy servants? and let them repent of all their hard speeches they have spoken concerning thee.
**14** Oh satisfy us early with thy mercy; that we may rejoice and be glad all our days.
**15** Make us glad according to the days wherein thou hast afflicted us, and the years wherein we have seen evil.
**16** Let thy work appear unto thy servants, and thy glory unto their children.
**17** And let the beauty of the Lord our God be upon us; and establish thou the work of our hands upon us; yea, the work of our hands establish thou it.