The Complete Jewish Bible CJB
New King James Version NKJV
1 A prayer of Moshe the man of God: Adonai, you have been our dwelling place in every generation.
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A Prayer of Moses the man of God. Lord, You have 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 You had formed the earth and the world, Even from everlasting to everlasting, You are God.
3 You bring frail mortals to the point of being crushed, then say, "People, repent!"
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You turn man to destruction, And say, "Return, O 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 Your sight Are like yesterday when it is past, And like 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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You carry them away like a flood; They are like a sleep. In the morning they are like grass which grows up:
6 growing and flowering in the morning, but by evening cut down and dried up.
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In the morning it flourishes and grows up; In the evening it is cut down and withers.
7 For we are destroyed by your anger, overwhelmed by your wrath.
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For we have been consumed by Your anger, And by Your wrath we are terrified.
8 You have placed our faults before you, our secret sins in the full light of your presence.
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You have set our iniquities before You, Our secret sins in the light of Your 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 have passed away in Your wrath; We finish our years like a sigh.
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 lives are seventy years; And if by reason of strength they are eighty years, Yet their boast is only labor 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 knows the power of Your anger? For as the fear of You, so is Your 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 gain a heart of 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 have compassion on Your 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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Oh, satisfy us early with Your 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 in which You have afflicted us, The years in which we have seen evil.
16 Show your deeds to your servants and your glory to their children.
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Let Your work appear to Your servants, And Your glory to 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 the work of our hands for us; Yes, establish the work of our hands.
Complete Jewish Bible Copyright 1998 by David H. Stern. Published by Jewish New Testament Publications, Inc. All rights reserved. Used by permission.
Scripture taken from the New King James Version. Copyright © 1982 by Thomas Nelson, Inc. Used by permission. All rights reserved.