New Living Translation NLT
Young's Literal Translation YLT
1 Lord, through all the generations you have been our home!
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A Prayer of Moses, the man of God. Lord, a habitation Thou -- Thou hast been, To us -- in generation and generation,
2 Before the mountains were born, before you gave birth to the earth and the world, from beginning to end, you are God.
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Before mountains were brought forth, And Thou dost form the earth and the world, Even from age unto age Thou [art] God.
3 You turn people back to dust, saying, “Return to dust, you mortals!”
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Thou turnest man unto a bruised thing, And sayest, Turn back, ye sons of men.
4 For you, a thousand years are as a passing day, as brief as a few night hours.
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For a thousand years in Thine eyes [are] as yesterday, For it passeth on, yea, a watch by night.
5 You sweep people away like dreams that disappear. They are like grass that springs up in the morning.
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Thou hast inundated them, they are asleep, In the morning as grass he changeth.
6 In the morning it blooms and flourishes, but by evening it is dry and withered.
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In the morning it flourisheth, and hath changed, At evening it is cut down, and hath withered.
7 We wither beneath your anger; we are overwhelmed by your fury.
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For we were consumed in Thine anger, And in Thy fury we have been troubled.
8 You spread out our sins before you— our secret sins—and you see them all.
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Thou hast set our iniquities before Thee, Our hidden things at the light of Thy face,
9 We live our lives beneath your wrath, ending our years with a groan.
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For all our days pined away in Thy wrath, We consumed our years as a meditation.
10 Seventy years are given to us! Some even live to eighty. But even the best years are filled with pain and trouble; soon they disappear, and we fly away.
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Days of our years, in them [are] seventy years, And if, by reason of might, eighty years, Yet [is] their enlargement labour and vanity, For it hath been cut off hastily, and we fly away.
11 Who can comprehend the power of your anger? Your wrath is as awesome as the fear you deserve.
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Who knoweth the power of Thine anger? And according to Thy fear -- Thy wrath?
12 Teach us to realize the brevity of life, so that we may grow in wisdom.
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To number our days aright let [us] know, And we bring the heart to wisdom.
13 O LORD, come back to us! How long will you delay? Take pity on your servants!
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Turn back, O Jehovah, till when? And repent concerning Thy servants.
14 Satisfy us each morning with your unfailing love, so we may sing for joy to the end of our lives.
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Satisfy us at morn [with] Thy kindness, And we sing and rejoice all our days.
15 Give us gladness in proportion to our former misery! Replace the evil years with good.
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Cause us to rejoice according to the days Wherein Thou hast afflicted us, The years we have seen evil.
16 Let us, your servants, see you work again; let our children see your glory.
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Let Thy work appear unto Thy servants, And Thine honour on their sons.
17 And may the Lord our God show us his approval and make our efforts successful. Yes, make our efforts successful!
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And let the pleasantness of Jehovah our God be upon us, And the work of our hands establish on us, Yea, the work of our hands establish it!
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