1 A Prayer of Moses the man of God.
2 Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever thou hadst formed the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting, thou
3 Thou turnest man to destruction; and sayest, Return, ye children of men.
4 For a thousand years in thy sight
5 Thou carriest them away as with a flood; they are
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
9 For all our days are passed away in thy wrath: we spend our years as a tale
10 The days of our years
11 Who knoweth the power of thine anger? even according to thy fear,
12 So teach
13 Return, O
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
16 Let thy work appear unto thy servants, and thy glory unto their children.
17 And let the beauty of the