1 L ord, You have been our dwelling place and our refuge in all generations.

A Prayer of Moses, the man of God. Lord, a habitation Thou -- Thou hast been, To us -- in generation and generation,

2 B efore the mountains were brought forth or ever You had formed and given birth to the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting You are God.

Before mountains were brought forth, And Thou dost form the earth and the world, Even from age unto age Thou God.

3 Y ou turn man back to dust and corruption, and say, Return, O sons of the earthborn!

Thou turnest man unto a bruised thing, And sayest, Turn back, ye sons of men.

4 F or a thousand years in Your sight are but as yesterday when it is past, or as a watch in the night.

For a thousand years in Thine eyes as yesterday, For it passeth on, yea, a watch by night.

5 Y ou carry away as with a flood; they are as a sleep. In the morning they are like grass which grows up—

Thou hast inundated them, they are asleep, In the morning as grass he changeth.

6 I n the morning it flourishes and springs up; in the evening it is mown down and withers.

In the morning it flourisheth, and hath changed, At evening it is cut down, and hath withered.

7 F or we are consumed by Your anger, and by Your wrath are we troubled, overwhelmed, and frightened away.

For we were consumed in Thine anger, And in Thy fury we have been troubled.

8 O ur iniquities, our secret heart and its sins, You have set in the light of Your countenance.

Thou hast set our iniquities before Thee, Our hidden things at the light of Thy face,

9 F or all our days pass away in Your wrath; we spend our years as a tale that is told.

For all our days pined away in Thy wrath, We consumed our years as a meditation.

10 T he days of our years are threescore years and ten (seventy years)—or even, if by reason of strength, fourscore years (eighty years); yet is their pride only labor and sorrow, for it is soon gone, and we fly away.

Days of our years, in them seventy years, And if, by reason of might, eighty years, Yet their enlargement labour and vanity, For it hath been cut off hastily, and we fly away.

11 W ho knows the power of Your anger? And Your wrath, who connects it with the reverent and worshipful fear that is due You?

Who knoweth the power of Thine anger? And according to Thy fear -- Thy wrath?

12 S o teach us to number our days, that we may get us a heart of wisdom.

To number our days aright let know, And we bring the heart to wisdom.

13 T urn, O Lord! How long—? Revoke Your sentence and be compassionate and at ease toward Your servants.

Turn back, O Jehovah, till when? And repent concerning Thy servants.

14 O satisfy us with Your mercy and loving-kindness in the morning, that we may rejoice and be glad all our days.

Satisfy us at morn Thy kindness, And we sing and rejoice all our days.

15 M ake us glad in proportion to the days in which You have afflicted us and to the years in which we have suffered evil.

Cause us to rejoice according to the days Wherein Thou hast afflicted us, The years we have seen evil.

16 L et Your work be revealed to Your servants, and Your majesty to their children.

Let Thy work appear unto Thy servants, And Thine honour on their sons.

17 A nd let the beauty and delightfulness and favor of the Lord our God be upon us; confirm and establish the work of our hands—yes, the work of our hands, confirm and establish it.

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!