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  • 1. Lord, thou hast bene our dwelling place in all generations.
  • 2. Before the mountaines were broughtforth, or euer thou hadst formed the earth and the world: euen from euerlasting to euerlasting thou art God.
  • 3. Thou turnest man to destruction: and sayest, Returne yee children of men.
  • 4. For a thousand yeeres in thy sight are but as yesterday when it is past: and as a watch in the night.
  • 5. Thou carriest them away as with a flood, they are as a sleepe: in the morning they are like grasse which groweth vp.
  • 6. In the morning it flourisheth, and groweth vp: in the euening it is cut downe, and withereth.
  • 7. For we are consumed by thine anger: and by thy wrath are we troubled.
  • 8. Thou hast set our iniquities before thee: our secret sinnes in the light of thy countenance.
  • 9. For all our dayes are passed away in thy wrath: we spend our yeeres as a tale that is told.
  • 10. The dayes of our yeres are threescore yeeres and ten, and if by reason of strength they be fourescore yeeres, yet is their strength labour and sorrow: for it is soone cut off, and we flie away.
  • 11. Who knoweth the power of thine anger? euen according to thy feare, so is thy wrath.
  • 12. So teach vs to number our daies: that wee may apply our hearts vnto wisedome.
  • 13. Returne (O Lord) how long? and let it repent thee concerning thy seruants.
  • 14. O satisfie vs early with thy mercie: that we may reioyce, and be glad all our dayes.
  • 15. Make vs glad according to the dayes wherein thou hast afflicted vs: and the yeeres wherein we haue seene euil.
  • 16. Let thy worke appeare vnto thy seruants: and thy glory vnto their children.
  • 17. And let the beautie of the Lord our God be vpon vs, and establish thou the worke of our hands vpon vs: yea, the work of our hands establish thou it.