| 1 ¶ A Prayer1 of Moses the man of God. Lord, thou hast been our dwelling place in all generations.2
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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 when3 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 groweth4 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 passed5 away in thy wrath: we spend our years as a tale6 that is told.
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| 10 The days7 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 apply8 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.
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