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1 LORD, thou hast been our dwelling place in all generations. | |
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. | |
3 Thou turnest man to destruction; and sayest, Return, ye children of men. | |
4 For a thousand years in thy sight are but as yesterday when it is past, and as a watch in the night. | |
5 Thou carriest them away as with a flood; they are as a sleep: in the morning they are like grass which groweth up. | |
6 In the morning it flourisheth, and groweth up; in the evening it is cut down, and withereth. | |
7 For we are consumed by thine anger, and by thy wrath are we troubled. | |
8 Thou hast set our iniquities before thee, our secret sins in the light of thy countenance. | |
9 For all our days are passed away in thy wrath: we spend our years as a tale that is told. | |
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. | |
11 Who knoweth the power of thine anger? even according to thy fear, so is thy wrath. | |
12 So teach us to number our days, that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom. | |
13 Return, O LORD, how long? and let it repent thee concerning thy servants. | |
14 O satisfy us early with thy mercy; that we may rejoice and be glad all our days. | |
15 Make us glad according to the days wherein thou hast afflicted us, and the years wherein we have seen evil. | |
16 Let thy work appear unto thy servants, and thy glory unto their children. | |
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. | |
