Good News Translation GNT
World English Bible WEB
1 O Lord, you have always been our home.
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<<A Prayer by Moses, the man of God.>> Lord, you have 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 you had formed the earth and the world, Even from everlasting to everlasting, you are God.
3 You tell us to return to what we were; you change us back to dust.
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You turn man to destruction, saying, "Return, you 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 your sight Are but as yesterday when it is past, 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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You sweep them away as they sleep. In the morning they sprout like new grass.
6 that grow and burst into bloom, then dry up and die in the evening.
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In the morning it sprouts and springs up. By evening, it is withered and dry.
7 We are destroyed by your anger; we are terrified by your fury.
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For we are consumed in your anger. We are troubled in your wrath.
8 You place our sins before you, our secret sins where you can see them.
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You have set our iniquities before you, Our secret sins in the light of your presence.
9 Our life is cut short by your anger; it fades away like a whisper.
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For all our days have passed away in your wrath. We bring our years to an end as 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 days of our years are seventy, Or even by reason of strength eighty years; Yet their pride is but labor and sorrow, For it passes quickly, 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 knows the power of your anger, Your wrath according to the fear that is due to you?
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 gain a heart of wisdom.
13 How much longer will your anger last? Have pity, O Lord, on your servants!
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Relent, Yahweh! How long? Have compassion on your 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 your lovingkindness, 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 for as many days as you have afflicted us, For 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 your work appear to your servants; Your glory 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 on us; Establish the work of our hands for us; Yes, establish the work of our hands.
Scripture taken from the Good News Translation - Second Edition, Copyright 1992 by American Bible Society. Used by Permission.
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