| Chapter 90 |
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{A Prayer of Moses, the man of God.} Lord, *thou* hast been our dwelling-place in all generations. |
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Before the mountains were brought forth, and thou hadst formed the earth and the world, even from eternity to eternity thou art ?God. |
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Thou makest mortal man to return to dust, and sayest, Return, children of men. |
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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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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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In the morning it flourisheth and groweth up; in the evening it is cut down and withereth. |
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For we are consumed by thine anger, and by thy fury are we troubled. |
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Thou hast set our iniquities before thee, our secret sins in the light of thy countenance. |
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For all our days pass away in thy wrath: we spend our years as a passing thought. |
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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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Who knoweth the power of thine anger? and thy wrath according to the fear of thee? |
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So teach us to number our days, that we may acquire a wise heart. |
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Return, Jehovah: how long? and let it repent thee concerning thy servants. |
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Satisfy us early with thy loving-kindness; that we may sing for joy and be glad all our days. |
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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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Let thy work appear unto thy servants, and thy majesty unto their sons. |
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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. |
