| Chapter 90 |
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A Prayer of Moses, the man of God. Lord, a habitation Thou -- Thou hast been, To us -- in generation and generation, -
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Before mountains were brought forth, And Thou dost form the earth and the world, Even from age unto age Thou [art] God. -
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Thou turnest man unto a bruised thing, And sayest, Turn back, ye sons of men. -
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For a thousand years in Thine eyes [are] as yesterday, For it passeth on, yea, a watch by night. -
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Thou hast inundated them, they are asleep, In the morning as grass he changeth. -
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In the morning it flourisheth, and hath changed, At evening it is cut down, and hath withered. -
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For we were consumed in Thine anger, And in Thy fury we have been troubled. -
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Thou hast set our iniquities before Thee, Our hidden things at the light of Thy face, -
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For all our days pined away in Thy wrath, We consumed our years as a meditation. -
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Days of our years, in them [are] seventy years, And if, by reason of might, eighty years, Yet [is] their enlargement labour and vanity, For it hath been cut off hastily, and we fly away. -
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Who knoweth the power of Thine anger? And according to Thy fear -- Thy wrath? -
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To number our days aright let [us] know, And we bring the heart to wisdom. -
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Turn back, O Jehovah, till when? And repent concerning Thy servants. -
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Satisfy us at morn [with] Thy kindness, And we sing and rejoice all our days. -
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Cause us to rejoice according to the days Wherein Thou hast afflicted us, The years we have seen evil. -
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Let Thy work appear unto Thy servants, And Thine honour on their sons. -
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And let the pleasantness of Jehovah our God be upon us, And the work of our hands establish on us, Yea, the work of our hands establish it! -
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