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| 1. | {A Prayer of Moses, the man of God.} Lord, thou hast been our dwelling-place in all generations. |
| 2. | Before the mountains were brought forth, and thou hadst formed the earth and the world, even from eternity to eternity thou art łGod. |
| 3. | Thou makest mortal man to return to dust, and sayest, Return, children of men. |
| 4. | For a thousand years, in thy sight, are 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 that 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 fury 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 pass away in thy wrath: we spend our years as a passing thought. |
| 10. | The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if, by reason of strength, they be fourscore years, yet their pride is labour and vanity, for it is soon cut off, and we fly away. |
| 11. | Who knoweth the power of thine anger? and thy wrath according to the fear of thee? |
| 12. | So teach us to number our days, that we may acquire a wise heart. |
| 13. | Return, Jehovah: how long? and let it repent thee concerning thy servants. |
| 14. | Satisfy us early with thy loving-kindness; that we may sing for joy and be glad all our days. |
| 15. | Make us glad according to the days wherein thou hast afflicted us, according to the years wherein we have seen evil. |
| 16. | Let thy work appear unto thy servants, and thy majesty unto their sons. |
| 17. | And let the beauty of Jehovah our God be upon us; and establish thou the work of our hands upon us: yea, the work of our hands, establish thou it. |