¹ A Prayer of Moses the man of God.¹ Lord, thou hast been our dwelling place in all generations.²

1. A Prayer…: or, A Prayer, being a Psalm of Moses.
2. in…: Heb. in generation and generation.

² Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever thou hadst formed the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting, thou art God.

³ Thou turnest man to destruction; and sayest, Return, ye children of men.

⁴ For a thousand years in thy sight are but as yesterday when it is past, and as a watch in the night.¹

1. when…: or, when he hath passed them.

⁵ Thou carriest them away as with a flood; they are as a sleep: in the morning they are like grass which groweth up.¹

1. groweth…: or, is changed.

⁶ In the morning it flourisheth, and groweth up; in the evening it is cut down, and withereth.

⁷ For we are consumed by thine anger, and by 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 spend our years as a tale that is told.¹²

1. passed…: Heb. turned away.
2. as a…: or, as a meditation.

¹⁰ The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labour and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away.¹

1. The days…: Heb. As for the days of our years, in them are seventy years.

¹¹ Who knoweth the power of thine anger? even according to thy fear, so is thy wrath.

¹² So teach us to number our days, that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom.¹

1. apply: Heb. cause to come.

¹³ Return, O Yhwh, how long? and let it repent thee concerning thy servants.

¹⁴ O satisfy us early with thy mercy; 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 unto their children.

¹⁷ And let the beauty of Yhwh our God be upon us: and establish thou the work of our hands upon us; yea, the work of our hands establish thou it.