1 L ord, You have been our dwelling place 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 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 to destruction, And say, “Return, O children of men.”

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 like yesterday when it is past, And like 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 them away like a flood; They are like 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 grows up; In the evening it is cut down and withers.

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

7 F or we have been consumed by Your anger, And by Your wrath we are terrified.

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

8 Y ou have set our iniquities before You, Our secret sins 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 have passed away in Your wrath; We finish our years like a sigh.

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

10 T he days of our lives are seventy years; And if by reason of strength they are eighty years, Yet their boast is only labor and sorrow; For it is soon cut off, 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? For as the fear of You, so is Your wrath.

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 gain a heart of wisdom.

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

13 R eturn, O Lord! How long? And have compassion on Your servants.

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

14 O h, satisfy us early with Your mercy, 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 according to the days in which You have afflicted us, The years in which we have seen 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 appear to Your servants, And Your glory to their children.

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

17 A nd let the beauty of the Lord our God be upon us, And establish the work of our hands for us; Yes, establish the work of our hands.

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!