1 Lord, you have been our dwelling place for all generations.

2 Before the mountains were born,

before you had formed the earth and the world,

even from everlasting to everlasting, you are God.

3 You turn man to destruction, saying,

"Return, you children of men."

4 For a thousand years in your sight are just like yesterday when it is past,

like a watch in the night.

5 You sweep them away as they sleep.

In the morning they sprout like new grass.

6 In the morning it sprouts and springs up.

By evening, it is withered and dry.

7 For we are consumed in your anger.

We are troubled in your wrath.

8 You have set our iniquities before you,

our secret sins in the light of your presence.

9 For all our days have passed away in your wrath.

We bring our years to an end as a sigh.

10 The days of our years are seventy,

or even by reason of strength eighty years;

yet their pride is but labor and sorrow,

for it passes quickly, and we fly away.

11 Who knows the power of your anger,

your wrath according to the fear that is due to you?

12 So teach us to count our days,

that we may gain a heart of wisdom.

13 Relent, Yahweh!

How long?

Have compassion on your servants!

14 Satisfy us in the morning with your loving kindness,

that we may rejoice and be glad all our days.

15 Make us glad for as many days as you have afflicted us,

for as many years as we have seen evil.

16 Let your work appear to your servants,

your glory to their children.

17 Let the favor of the Lord our God be on us.

Establish the work of our hands for us.

Yes, establish the work of our hands.

1 A Prayer of Moses the man of God. Lord, thou hast been our refuge from generation to generation.

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 dost turn unto man until he is broken and thou saith, Become converted, ye sons of Adam.

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 dost cause them to pass by as the waters of a river; they are [as] a dream, which is strong in the morning like grass.

6 In the morning it blossoms and grows up; in the evening it is cut down and withers.

7 For we are consumed by thine anger, and by thy wrath we are troubled.

8 Thou hast set our iniquities before thee, our secret [sins] in the light of thy countenance.

9 For all our days decline because of thy wrath; we end our years according to the word.

10 The days of our years [are] seventy, and of the most valiant eighty years, yet their strength [is] labour and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away.

11 Who knows the power of thine anger? that thy wrath is not less than our fear.

12 Cause us to learn this that we might number our days, that we may apply [our] hearts unto wisdom.

13 Return [unto us], O LORD, how long? and let it repent thee concerning thy servants.

14 O satisfy us early with thy mercy, and we shall sing and be glad all our days.

15 Make us glad according to the days [in which] thou hast afflicted us [and] the years [in which] we have seen evil.

16 Let thy work appear in thy servants and thy glory upon their sons.

17 And let the beauty of the LORD our God be upon us, and set thou aright the work of our hands upon us; yea, set thou aright the work of our hands.: