[[A prayer of Moses, the man of God.]][1]Lord, thou hast been our habitation from generation to generation.[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.[3]Thou turnest man to destruction: again thou sayest, Return, ye sons of Adam.[4]For a thousand years in thy sight are as yesterday when it is past, and as a watch in the night.[5]Thou hast overflowed them: they are as a sleep: in the morning he groweth like the grass:[6]In the morning it flourisheth and groweth, but in the evening it is cut down and withereth.[7]For we are consumed by thine anger, and by thy wrath are we troubled.[8]Thou hast set our iniquities before thee, and our secret sins in the light of thy countenance.[9]For all our days are past in thine anger: we have spent our years as a thought.[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.[11]Who knoweth the power of thy wrath? For according to thy fear is thine anger.[12]Teach us so to number our days, that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom.[13]Return (O Lord, how long?) and be pacified toward thy servants.[14]Fill us with thy mercy in the morning: so shall we rejoice and be glad all our days.[15]Comfort us according to the days that thou hast afflicted us, and according to the years that we have seen evil.[16]Let thy work be seen toward thy servants, and thy glory upon their children.[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.