XC. Book IV. God's Eternity and Man's Transitoriness. 1909-14. The Book of Psalms. The Harvard Classics

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The Book of Psalms.
The Harvard Classics. 1909–14.

Book IV

God’s Eternity and Man’s Transitoriness

A Prayer of Moses the man of God.


[1]	LORD, thou hast been our dwelling-place In all generations.
[2]	Before the mountains were brought forth, Or ever thou hadst 1 formed the earth and the world, Even from everlasting to everlasting, thou art God.
[3]	Thou turnest man to destruction, 2 And sayest, Return, ye children of men.
[4]	For a thousand years in thy sight Are but as yesterday when 3 it is past, And as a watch in the night.
[5]	Thou carriest them away as with a flood; they are as a sleep: In the morning they are like grass which groweth up.
[6]	In the morning it flourisheth, and groweth up; In the evening it is cut down, and withereth.
[7]	For we are consumed in thine anger, And in thy wrath are we troubled.
[8]	Thou hast set our iniquities before thee, Our secret sins in the light of thy countenance.
[9]	For all our days are passed away in thy wrath: We bring our years to an end as a 4 sigh.
[10]	The days of our years are three-score 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.
[11]	Who knoweth the power of thine anger, And thy wrath according to the fear that is due unto thee?
[12]	So teach us to number our days, That we may get us a heart of wisdom.
[13]	Return, O Jehovah; how long? And let it repent thee concerning thy servants.
[14]	Oh satisfy us in the morning with thy lovingkindness, That we may rejoice and be glad all our days.
[15]	Make us glad according to the days wherein thou hast afflicted us, And the years wherein we have seen evil.
[16]	Let thy work appear unto thy servants, And thy glory upon their children.
[17]	And let the favor 5 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.

Note 1. Heb. gavest birth to. [back]

Note 2. Or, dust.Heb. crushing. [back]

Note 3. Or, when it passeth. [back]

Note 4. Or, a sound. [back]

Note 5. Or, beauty. [back]

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