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¹ A Prayer of Moses, the Man of God. O Lord, You have been our dwelling-place in all generations.² Before the mountains were born, or ever You had formed the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting You are God.³ You turn man to dust, and say, Return, O sons of men.⁴ For a thousand years in Your eyes are as a day, yesterday, when it passes, and as a watch in the night.⁵ You flooded them away; they are as a sleep; in the morning they are like grass growing;⁶ in the morning it sprouts and shoots up; in the evening it is cut off and dries up.

⁷ For we are consumed by Your anger, and we are troubled by Your wrath.⁸ You have set our iniquities before You, our secret sins in the light of Your face.⁹ For all our days pass away in Your wrath; we finish our years like a murmur.¹⁰ The days of our years are seventy; and if any by strength live eighty years, yet their pride is labor and sorrow; for it soon passes, and we fly away.¹¹ Who knows the power of Your anger? And as Your fear is, so is Your fury.

¹² So teach us to number our days, so that we may bring a heart of wisdom.¹³ Return, O Jehovah! Until when? And give pity to Your servants.¹⁴ O satisfy us in the morning with Your mercy, and we will be glad and rejoice all our days.¹⁵ Make us glad according to the days of our affliction, the years in which we have seen evil.¹⁶ Let Your work be seen in Your servants, and Your majesty to their sons.¹⁷ And let the delight of the Lord our God be upon us; and establish the works of our hands upon us; yea, the work of our hands, establish it!