The Holy Bible: King James Version. 2000.
God’s Eternity and Man’s Transitoriness |
A Prayer of Moses the man of God. |
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LORD, thou hast been our dwelling place in all generations.
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Before the mountains were brought forth,
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or ever thou hadst formed the earth and the world, |
even from everlasting to everlasting, thou art God. |
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Thou turnest man to destruction;
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and sayest, Return, ye children of men. |
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For a thousand years in thy sight
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are but as yesterday when it is past, 2 Pet. 3.8 |
and as a watch in the night. |
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Thou carriest them away as with a flood; they are as a sleep:
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in the morning they are like grass which groweth up. |
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In the morning it flourisheth, and groweth up;
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in the evening it is cut down, and withereth. |
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For we are consumed by thine anger,
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and by thy wrath are we troubled. |
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Thou hast set our iniquities before thee,
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our secret sins in the light of thy countenance. |
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For all our days are passed away in thy wrath:
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we spend our years as a tale that is told. |
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The days of our years are threescore years and ten;
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and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, |
yet is their strength labor and sorrow; |
for it is soon cut off, and we fly away. |
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Who knoweth the power of thine anger?
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Even according to thy fear, so is thy wrath. |
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So teach us to number our days,
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that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom. |
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Return, O LORD, how long?
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And let it repent thee concerning thy servants. |
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O satisfy us early with thy mercy;
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that we may rejoice and be glad all our days. |
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Make us glad according to the days wherein thou hast afflicted us,
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and the years wherein we have seen evil. |
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Let thy work appear unto thy servants,
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and thy glory unto their children. |
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And let the beauty of the LORD our God be upon us:
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and establish thou the work of our hands upon us; |
yea, the work of our hands establish thou it. |
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