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[1]A prayer of Moses the man of God. Lord, thou hast been our dwelling-place in all generations.
[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]Thou turnest man to destruction; and sayest, Return, ye children of men.
[4]For a thousand years in thy sight are but as yesterday when it is past, and as a watch in the night.
[5]Thou carriest them away as with a flood; they are as a sleep; in the morning they are like grass which groweth.
[6]In the morning it flourisheth, and groweth; in the evening it is cut down, and withereth.
[7]For we are consumed by thy anger, and by thy wrath are we troubled.
[8]Thou hast set our iniquities before thee, our secret sins in the light of thy countenance.
[9]For all our days are passed away in thy wrath: we spend our years, as a tale that is told.
[10]The days of our years are seventy years; and if by reason of strength they are eighty years, yet is their strength labor and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away.
[11]Who knoweth the power of thy anger? even according to thy fear, so is thy wrath.
[12]So teach us to number our days, that we may apply our hearts to wisdom.
[13]Return, O LORD, how long? and repent thou concerning thy servants.
[14]O satisfy us early with thy mercy; that we may rejoice and be glad all our days.
[15]Make us glad according to the days in which thou hast afflicted us, and the years in which we have seen evil.
[16]Let thy work appear to thy servants, and thy glory to their children.
[17]And let the beauty of the LORD our God be upon us: and establish thou the work of our hands upon us; yes, the work of our hands establish thou it.
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