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| [1]Lord, thou hast been our habitation from generation to generation. |
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| [2]Before the mountains were made, and before thou hadst formed the earth, and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting thou art our God. |
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| [3]Thou turnest man to destruction: again thou sayest, Return, ye sons of Adam. |
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| [4]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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| [5]Thou hast overflowed them: they are as a sleep: in the morning he groweth like the grass: |
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| [6]In the morning it flourisheth and groweth, but in the evening it is cut down and withereth. |
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| [7]For we are consumed by thine anger, and by thy wrath are we troubled. |
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| [8]Thou hast set our iniquities before thee, and our secret sins in the light of thy countenance. |
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| [9]For all our days are past in thine anger: we have spent our years as a thought. |
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| [10]The time of our life is threescore years and ten, and if they be of strength, fourscore years: yet their strength is but labor and sorrow: for it is cut off quickly, and we flee away. |
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| [11]Who knoweth the power of thy wrath? For according to thy fear is thine anger. |
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| [12]Teach us so to number our days, that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom. |
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| [13]Return (O Lord, how long?) and be pacified toward thy servants. |
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| [14]Fill us with thy mercy in the morning: so shall we rejoice and be glad all our days. |
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| [15]Comfort us according to the days that thou hast afflicted us, and according to the years that we have seen evil. |
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| [16]Let thy work be seen toward thy servants, and thy glory upon their children. |
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| [17]And let the beauty of the Lord our God be upon us, and direct thou the work of our hands upon us, even direct the work of our hands. |
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