1«A Prayer of Moses the man of God.» Lord, thou hast been our dwelling place in all generations. 2Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever thou hadst formed the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting, thou [art] God. 3Thou turnest man to destruction; and sayest, Return, ye children of men. 4For a thousand years in thy sight [are but] as yesterday when it is past, and [as] a watch in the night. 5Thou carriest them away as with a flood; they are [as] a sleep: in the morning [they are] like grass [which] groweth up. 6In the morning it florisheth and groweth, but in the euening it is cut downe and withereth. 7For we are consumed by thine anger, and by thy wrath are we troubled. 8Thou hast set our iniquities before thee, and our secret sinnes in the light of thy countenance. 9For all our days are passed away in thy wrath: we spend our years as a tale [that is told]. 10The 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. 11Who knoweth the power of thine anger? even according to thy fear, [so is] thy wrath. 12So teach [us] to number our days, that we may apply [our] hearts unto wisdom. 13Return, O LORD, how long? and let it repent thee concerning thy servants. 14Fill vs with thy mercie in the morning: so shall we reioyce and be glad all our dayes. 15Comfort vs according to the dayes that thou hast afflicted vs, and according to the yeeres that we haue seene euill. 16Let thy work appear unto thy servants, and thy glory unto their children. 17And let the beauty 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.