[1] A PRAYER OF MOSES, THE MAN OF GOD. Lord, You have been a habitation, || To us—in generation and generation, [2] Before mountains were brought forth, || And You form the earth and the world, || Even from age to age You [are] God. [3] You turn man to a bruised thing, || And say, Return, you sons of men. [4] For one thousand years in Your eyes [are] as yesterday, || For it passes on, indeed, [as] a watch by night. [5] You have inundated them, they are asleep, || In the morning he changes as grass. [6] In the morning it flourishes, and has changed, || At evening it is cut down, and has withered. [7] For we were consumed in Your anger, || And we have been troubled in Your fury. [8] You have set our iniquities before You, || Our hidden things at the light of Your face, [9] For all our days pined away in Your wrath, || We consumed our years as a meditation. [10] The days of our years, in them [are] seventy years, || And if, by reason of might, eighty years, || Yet their enlargement [is] labor and vanity, || For it has been cut off quickly, and we fly away. [11] Who knows the power of Your anger? And according to Your fear—Your wrath? [12] Let [us] know to number our days correctly, || And we bring the heart to wisdom. [13] Turn back, O YHWH, until when? And regret concerning Your servants. [14] Satisfy us at morning [with] Your kindness, || And we sing and rejoice all our days. [15] Cause us to rejoice according to the days || Wherein You have afflicted us, || The years we have seen evil. [16] Let Your work appear to Your servants, || And Your honor on their sons. [17] And let the pleasantness of our God YHWH be on us, || And establish on us the work of our hands, || Indeed, establish the work of our hands!
