| Chapter 90 |
1 | 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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2 | 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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3 | Thou turnest man unto a bruised thing, And sayest, Turn back, ye sons of men.
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4 | For a thousand years in Thine eyes [are] as yesterday, For it passeth on, yea, a watch by night.
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5 | Thou hast inundated them, they are asleep, In the morning as grass he changeth.
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6 | In the morning it flourisheth, and hath changed, At evening it is cut down, and hath withered.
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7 | For we were consumed in Thine anger, And in Thy fury we have been troubled.
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8 | Thou hast set our iniquities before Thee, Our hidden things at the light of Thy face,
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9 | For all our days pined away in Thy wrath, We consumed our years as a meditation.
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10 | 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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11 | Who knoweth the power of Thine anger? And according to Thy fear -- Thy wrath?
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12 | To number our days aright let [us] know, And we bring the heart to wisdom.
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13 | Turn back, O Jehovah, till when? And repent concerning Thy servants.
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14 | Satisfy us at morn [with] Thy kindness, And we sing and rejoice all our days.
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15 | Cause us to rejoice according to the days Wherein Thou hast afflicted us, The years we have seen evil.
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16 | Let Thy work appear unto Thy servants, And Thine honour on their sons.
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17 | 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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