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[[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.
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