Good News Translation GNT
Revised Standard Version RSV
1 O Lord, you have always been our home.
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A Prayer of Moses, the man of God. LORD, thou hast been our dwelling place in all generations.
2 Before you created the hills or brought the world into being, you were eternally God, and will be God forever.
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Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever thou hadst formed the earth and the world, from everlasting to everlasting thou art God.
3 You tell us to return to what we were; you change us back to dust.
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Thou turnest man back to the dust, and sayest, "Turn back, O children of men!"
4 A thousand years to you are like one day; they are like yesterday, already gone, like a short hour in the night.
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For a thousand years in thy sight are but as yesterday when it is past, or as a watch in the night.
5 You carry us away like a flood; we last no longer than a dream. We are like weeds that sprout in the morning,
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Thou dost sweep men away; they are like a dream, like grass which is renewed in the morning:
6 that grow and burst into bloom, then dry up and die in the evening.
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in the morning it flourishes and is renewed; in the evening it fades and withers.
7 We are destroyed by your anger; we are terrified by your fury.
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For we are consumed by thy anger; by thy wrath we are overwhelmed.
8 You place our sins before you, our secret sins where you can see them.
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Thou hast set our iniquities before thee, our secret sins in the light of thy countenance.
9 Our life is cut short by your anger; it fades away like a whisper.
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For all our days pass away under thy wrath, our years come to an end like a sigh.
10 Seventy years is all we have - eighty years, if we are strong; yet all they bring us is trouble and sorrow; life is soon over, and we are gone.
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The years of our life are threescore and ten, or even by reason of strength fourscore; yet their span is but toil and trouble; they are soon gone, and we fly away.
11 Who has felt the full power of your anger? Who knows what fear your fury can bring?
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Who considers the power of thy anger, and thy wrath according to the fear of thee?
12 Teach us how short our life is, so that we may become wise.
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So teach us to number our days that we may get a heart of wisdom.
13 How much longer will your anger last? Have pity, O Lord, on your servants!
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Return, O LORD! How long? Have pity on thy servants!
14 Fill us each morning with your constant love, so that we may sing and be glad all our life.
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Satisfy us in the morning with thy steadfast love, that we may rejoice and be glad all our days.
15 Give us now as much happiness as the sadness you gave us during all our years of misery.
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Make us glad as many days as thou hast afflicted us, and as many years as we have seen evil.
16 Let us, your servants, see your mighty deeds; let our descendants see your glorious might.
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Let thy work be manifest to thy servants, and thy glorious power to their children.
17 Lord our God, may your blessings be with us. Give us success in all we do!
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Let the favor 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.
Scripture taken from the Good News Translation - Second Edition, Copyright 1992 by American Bible Society. Used by Permission.
Revised Standard Version of the Bible, copyright 1952 [2nd edition, 1971] by the Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved.