A prayer of Moses the man of God.{HR}O Lord , thou hast been our dwelling-place{HR}In generation and generation.
Before mountains were brought forth,{HR}And thou gavest birth to earth and world,{HR}Even from eternity to eternity thou [art] God .
Thou turnest man to crumbling,{HR}And sayest, Return, sons of men.
For a thousand years in thine eyes{HR}[Are] as yesterday when it passeth,{HR}And a watch in the night.
Thou sweepest them away— asleep are they;{HR}In the morning as grass changeth;
In the morning it flourisheth and changeth;{HR}At the evening it is mown and withereth.
For we decay in thine anger,{HR}And in thy wrath are we confounded.
Thou hast set our iniquities before thee,{HR}Our secret [sins] in the light of thy face.
For all our days are turned away in thy wrath:{HR}We spend our years as a thought.
The days of our years! in them [are] seventy years,{HR}And if by strength eighty years,{HR}Even their pride [is] trouble and mischief;{HR}For it is soon gone, and we fly away.
Who knoweth the power of thine anger,{HR}And, as thy fear, thy wrath?
To number our days thus make [us] know,{HR}And we will get us a heart of wisdom.
Return, Jehovah: how long?{HR}And repent as to thy servants.
Satisfy us in the morning with thy mercy,{HR}And we will rejoice and be glad all our days.
Make us glad like the days thou hast afflicted us,{HR}The years we have seen evil.
Let thy work appear unto thy servants,{HR}And thy majesty to their sons.
And let the beauty of Jehovah our God be upon us,{HR}And the work of our hands establish thou upon us;{HR}Even the work of our hands, establish thou it.