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¹ BOOK IV. A Prayer of Moses the man of God. Lord, you have been our dwelling-place In all generations.² Before the mountains were brought forth, Or you had ever formed the earth and the world, Even from everlasting to everlasting, you are God.³ You turn common man to destruction, And say, Return, you sons of man.⁴ For a thousand years in your sight Are but as yesterday when it is past, And as a watch in the night.⁵ You carry them away as with a flood; they are as a sleep: In the morning they are like grass which grows up.⁶ In the morning it flourishes, and grows up; In the evening it is cut down, and withers.

⁷ For we are consumed in your anger, And in your wrath are we troubled.⁸ You have set our iniquities before you, Our secret sins in the light of your countenance.⁹ For all our days are passed away in your wrath: We bring our years to an end as a sigh.¹⁰ The days of our years are seventy years, Or even by reason of strength eighty years; Yet is their pride but labor and sorrow; For it is soon gone, and we fly away.¹¹ Who knows the power of your anger, And your wrath according to the fear that is due to you?

¹² So teach us to number our days, That we may get us a heart of wisdom.¹³ Return, O Yahweh; how long? And let it repent you concerning your slaves.¹⁴ Oh satisfy us in the morning with your loving-kindness, That we may rejoice and be glad all our days.¹⁵ Make us glad according to the days wherein you have afflicted us, And the years wherein we have seen evil.¹⁶ Let your work appear to your slaves, And your glory on their sons.¹⁷ And let the favor of the Lord our God be on us; And establish the work of our hands on us; Yes, the work of our hands establish it.