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Book IV
God's Eternity and Man's Transitoriness.
A Prayer of Moses the man of God. |
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1 Jehovah, thou hast been our dwelling-place
In all generations.
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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.
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3 Thou turnest man to destruction,
And hast said, Return, ye children of men.
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4 For a thousand years in thy sight
Shall be but as yesterday when it shall pass,
And as a watch in the night.
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5 Thou carriest them away as with a flood; they are as a sleep:
In the morning they are like grass which groweth up.
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6 In the morning it flourisheth, and groweth up;
In the evening it is cut down and withereth.
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7 For we are consumed in thine anger,
And in thy wrath are we troubled.
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8 Thou hast set our iniquities before thee,
Our secret sins in the light of thy countenance.
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9 For all our days are passed away in thy wrath:
We bring our years to an end as a sigh.
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10 The days of our years are seventy,
Or even by reason of strength eighty years;
Yet is their pride but labor and sorrow;
For it is soon gone, and we have flown away.
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11 Who knoweth the power of thine anger,
And thy wrath according to the fear that is due unto thee?
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12 So teach us to number our days,
That we may get us a heart of wisdom.
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13 Return, O Jehovah; how long?
And let it repent thee concerning thy servants.
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14 Oh satisfy us in the morning with thy lovingkindness,
That we may rejoice and be glad all our days.
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15 Make us glad according to the days wherein thou hast afflicted us,
And the years wherein we have seen evil.
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16 Let thy work appear unto thy servants,
And thy glory upon their children.
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| 17 And let the favor of Jehovah |
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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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