King James Version KJV
Good News Translation GNT
1 Lord, thou hast been our dwelling place in all generations.
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O Lord, you have always been our home.
2 Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever thou hadst formed the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting, thou art God.
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Before you created the hills or brought the world into being, you were eternally God, and will be God forever.
3 Thou turnest man to destruction; and sayest, Return, ye children of men.
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You tell us to return to what we were; you change us back to dust.
4 For a thousand years in thy sight are but as yesterday when it is past, and as a watch in the night.
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A thousand years to you are like one day; they are like yesterday, already gone, like a short hour in the night.
5 Thou carriest them away as with a flood; they are as a sleep: in the morning they are like grass which groweth up.
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You carry us away like a flood; we last no longer than a dream. We are like weeds that sprout in the morning,
6 In the morning it flourisheth, and groweth up; in the evening it is cut down, and withereth.
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that grow and burst into bloom, then dry up and die in the evening.
7 For we are consumed by thine anger, and by thy wrath are we troubled.
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We are destroyed by your anger; we are terrified by your fury.
8 Thou hast set our iniquities before thee, our secret sins in the light of thy countenance.
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You place our sins before you, our secret sins where you can see them.
9 For all our days are passed away in thy wrath: we spend our years as a tale that is told.
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Our life is cut short by your anger; it fades away like a whisper.
10 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.
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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.
11 Who knoweth the power of thine anger? even according to thy fear, so is thy wrath.
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Who has felt the full power of your anger? Who knows what fear your fury can bring?
12 So teach us to number our days, that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom.
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Teach us how short our life is, so that we may become wise.
13 Return, O LORD, how long? and let it repent thee concerning thy servants.
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How much longer will your anger last? Have pity, O Lord, on your servants!
14 O satisfy us early with thy mercy; that we may rejoice and be glad all our days.
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Fill us each morning with your constant love, so that we may sing and be glad all our life.
15 Make us glad according to the days wherein thou hast afflicted us, and the years wherein we have seen evil.
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Give us now as much happiness as the sadness you gave us during all our years of misery.
16 Let thy work appear unto thy servants, and thy glory unto their children.
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Let us, your servants, see your mighty deeds; let our descendants see your glorious might.
17 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.
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Lord our God, may your blessings be with us. Give us success in all we do!
The King James Version is in the public domain.
Scripture taken from the Good News Translation - Second Edition, Copyright 1992 by American Bible Society. Used by Permission.