The Complete Jewish Bible CJB
King James Version KJV
1 A prayer of Moshe the man of God: Adonai, you have been our dwelling place in every generation.
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Lord, thou hast been our dwelling place in all generations.
2 Before the mountains were born, before you had formed the earth and the world, from eternity past to eternity future you are God.
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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 You bring frail mortals to the point of being crushed, then say, "People, repent!"
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Thou turnest man to destruction; and sayest, Return, ye children of men.
4 For from your viewpoint a thousand years are merely like yesterday or a night watch.
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For a thousand years in thy sight are but as yesterday when it is past, and as a watch in the night.
5 When you sweep them away, they become like sleep; by morning they are like growing grass,
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Thou carriest them away as with a flood; they are as a sleep: in the morning they are like grass which groweth up.
6 growing and flowering in the morning, but by evening cut down and dried up.
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In the morning it flourisheth, and groweth up; in the evening it is cut down, and withereth.
7 For we are destroyed by your anger, overwhelmed by your wrath.
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For we are consumed by thine anger, and by thy wrath are we troubled.
8 You have placed our faults before you, our secret sins in the full light of your presence.
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Thou hast set our iniquities before thee, our secret sins in the light of thy countenance.
9 All our days ebb away under your wrath; our years die away like a sigh.
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For all our days are passed away in thy wrath: we spend our years as a tale that is told.
10 The span of our life is seventy years, or if we are strong, eighty; yet at best it is toil and sorrow, over in a moment, and then we are gone.
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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.
11 Who grasps the power of your anger and wrath to the degree that the fear due you should inspire?
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Who knoweth the power of thine anger? even according to thy fear, so is thy wrath.
12 So teach us to count our days, so that we will become wise.
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So teach us to number our days, that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom.
13 Return, ADONAI! How long must it go on? Take pity on your servants!
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Return, O LORD, how long? and let it repent thee concerning thy servants.
14 Fill us at daybreak with your love, so that we can sing for joy as long as we live.
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O satisfy us early with thy mercy; that we may rejoice and be glad all our days.
15 Let our joy last as long as the time you made us suffer, for as many years as we experienced trouble.
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Make us glad according to the days wherein thou hast afflicted us, and the years wherein we have seen evil.
16 Show your deeds to your servants and your glory to their children.
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Let thy work appear unto thy servants, and thy glory unto their children.
17 May the favor of Adonai our God be on us, prosper for us all the work that we do -yes, prosper the work that we do.
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And 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.
Complete Jewish Bible Copyright 1998 by David H. Stern. Published by Jewish New Testament Publications, Inc. All rights reserved. Used by permission.
The King James Version is in the public domain.