Chapter 90

  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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