| Chapter 90 |
1 | {A Prayer of Moses, the man of God.} Lord, thou hast been our dwelling-place in all generations.
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2 | Before the mountains were brought forth, and thou hadst formed the earth and the world, even from eternity to eternity thou art łGod.
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3 | Thou makest [mortal] man to return to dust, and sayest, Return, children of men.
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4 | For a thousand years, in thy sight, are as yesterday when it is past, 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 [that] 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 by thine anger, and by thy fury 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 pass away in thy wrath: we spend our years as a [passing] thought.
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10 | The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if, by reason of strength, they be fourscore years, yet their pride is labour and vanity, for it is soon cut off, and we fly away.
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11 | Who knoweth the power of thine anger? and thy wrath according to the fear of thee?
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12 | So teach [us] to number our days, that we may acquire a wise heart.
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13 | Return, Jehovah: how long? and let it repent thee concerning thy servants.
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14 | Satisfy us early with thy loving-kindness; that we may sing for joy and be glad all our days.
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15 | Make us glad according to the days [wherein] thou hast afflicted us, according to the years [wherein] we have seen evil.
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16 | Let thy work appear unto thy servants, and thy majesty unto their sons.
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17 | And let the beauty of Jehovah our God be upon us; and establish thou the work of our hands upon us: yea, the work of our hands, establish thou it.
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