| 1: LORD, 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 sayest, Return, ye
children of men. |
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| 4: For a thousand years in thy sight are but 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 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 by thine anger, and by 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 spend our
years as a tale that is told. |
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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 is their strength labour
and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away. |
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| 11: Who knoweth the power of thine anger? even according to thy
fear, so is thy wrath. |
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| 12: So teach us to number our days, that we may apply our hearts
unto wisdom. |
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| 13: Return, O LORD, how long? and let it repent thee concerning
thy servants. |
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| 14: O satisfy us early with thy mercy; 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 unto
their children. |
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| 17: And let the beauty of the LORD our God be upon us: and
establish thou the work of our hands upon us; yea, the work of our hands
establish thou it. |
