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- {A Prayer of Moses, the man of God.}
Lord, *thou* hast been our dwelling-place in all generations.
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- Before the mountains were brought forth, and thou hadst formed the earth and the world, even from eternity to eternity thou art God.
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- Thou makest [mortal] man to return to dust, and sayest, Return, children of men.
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- For a thousand years, in thy sight, are as yesterday when it is past, and [as] a watch in the night.
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- Thou carriest them away as with a flood;
they are [as] a sleep: in the morning they are like grass [that] groweth up:
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- In the morning it flourisheth and groweth up;
in the evening it is cut down and withereth.
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- For we are consumed by thine anger, and by thy fury are we troubled.
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- Thou hast set our iniquities before thee, our secret [sins] in the light of thy countenance.
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- For all our days pass away in thy wrath: we spend our years as a [passing] thought.
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- 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.
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- Who knoweth the power of thine anger?
and thy wrath according to the fear of thee?
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- So teach [us] to number our days, that we may acquire a wise heart.
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- Return, Jehovah: how long?
and let it repent thee concerning thy servants.
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- Satisfy us early with thy loving-kindness;
that we may sing for joy and be glad all our days.
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- Make us glad according to the days [wherein] thou hast afflicted us, according to the years [wherein] we have seen evil.
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- Let thy work appear unto thy servants, and thy majesty unto their sons.
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- 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.
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