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| [1]Lord, thou hast been our refuge in all generations. |
[1]A Prayer of Moses the man of God. Lord, Thou hast been our dwelling-place in all generations. |
| [2]Before the mountains existed, and before the earth and the world were formed, even from age to age, Thou art. |
[2]Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever Thou hadst formed the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting, Thou art God. |
| [3]Turn not man back to his low place, whereas thou saidst, Return, ye sons of men? |
[3]Thou turnest man to contrition; and sayest: 'Return, ye children of men.' |
| [4]For a thousand years in thy sight are as the yesterday which is past, and as a watch in the night. |
[4]For a thousand years in Thy sight are but as yesterday when it is past, and as a watch in the night. |
| [5]Years shall be vanity to them: let the morning pass away as grass. |
[5]Thou carriest them away as with a flood; they are as a sleep; in the morning they are like grass which groweth up. |
| [6]In the morning let it flower, and pass away: in the evening let it droop, let it be withered and dried up. |
[6]In the morning it flourisheth, and groweth up; in the evening it is cut down, and withereth. |
| [7]For we have perished in thine anger, and in thy wrath we have been troubled. |
[7]For we are consumed in Thine anger, and by Thy wrath are we hurried away. |
| [8]Thou hast set our transgressions before thee: our age is in the light of thy countenance. |
[8]Thou hast set our iniquities before Thee, our secret sins in the light of Thy countenance. |
| [9]For all our days are gone, and we have passed away in thy wrath: our years have spun out their tale as a spider. |
[9]For all our days are passed away in Thy wrath; we bring our years to an end as a tale that is told. |
| [10]As for the days of our years, in them are seventy years; and if men should be in strength, eighty years: and the greater part of them would be labour and trouble; for weakness overtakes us, and we shall be chastened. |
[10]The days of our years are threescore years and ten, or even by reason of strength fourscore years; yet is their pride but travail and vanity; for it is speedily gone, and we fly away. |
| [11]Who knows the power of thy wrath? |
[11]Who knoweth the power of Thine anger, and Thy wrath according to the fear that is due unto Thee? |
| [12]and who knows how to number his days because of the fear of thy wrath? So manifest thy right hand, and those that are instructed in wisdom in the heart. |
[12]So teach us to number our days, that we may get us a heart of wisdom. |
| [13]Return, O Lord, how long? and be intreated concerning thy servants. |
[13]Return, O 𐤉𐤇𐤅𐤇; how long? And let it repent Thee concerning Thy servants. |
| [14]We have been satisfied in the morning with thy mercy; and we did exult and rejoice: |
[14]O satisfy us in the morning with Thy mercy; that we may rejoice and be glad all our days. |
| [15]let us rejoice in all our days, in return for the days wherein thou didst afflict us, the years wherein we saw evil. |
[15]Make us glad according to the days wherein Thou hast afflicted us, according to the years wherein we have seen evil. |
| [16]And look upon thy servants, and upon thy works; and guide their children. |
[16]Let Thy work appear unto Thy servants, and Thy glory upon their children. |
| [17]And let the brightness of the Lord our God be upon us: and do thou direct for us the works of our hands. |
[17]And let the graciousness of the Lord our God be upon us; establish Thou also upon us the work of our hands; yea, the work of our hands establish Thou it. |