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A Prayer of Moses the man of YAHUVEH. |
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Master, thou hast been our dwelling-place In all generations. |
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Before the mountains were brought forth, Or ever thou hadst formed the
earth and the world, Even from everlasting to everlasting, thou art YAHUVEH. |
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Thou turnest man to destruction, And sayest, Return, ye children of men. |
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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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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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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 in thine anger, And in thy wrath 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 are passed away in thy wrath: We bring our years to an
end as a sigh. |
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The days of our years are threescore years and ten, Or even by reason of
strength fourscore years; Yet is their pride but labor and sorrow; For it is
soon gone, and we fly away. |
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Who knoweth the power of thine anger, And thy wrath according to the
fear that is due unto thee? |
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So teach us to number our days, That we may get us a heart of wisdom. |
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Return, O YAHUVEH; how long? And let it repent thee concerning thy
servants. |
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Oh satisfy us in the morning with thy lovingkindness, That we may
rejoice and be glad all our days. |
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Make us glad according to the days wherein thou hast afflicted us, And
the years wherein we have seen evil. |
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Let thy work appear unto thy servants, And thy glory upon their
children. |
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And let the favor of the Master our YAHUVEH be upon us; And establish
thou the work of our hands upon us; Yea, the work of our hands establish
thou it. |