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Chapter 90
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Lord, thou hast been our dwelling place in all generations. |
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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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Thou turnest man to destruction; and sayest, Return,
ye children of men. |
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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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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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In the morning it flourisheth, and groweth up; in the
evening it is cut down, and withereth. |
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For we are consumed by thine anger, and by thy wrath
are we troubled. |
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Thou hast set our iniquities before thee, our secret
sins in the light of thy countenance. |
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For all our days are passed away in thy wrath: we spend
our years as a tale that is told. |
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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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Who knoweth the power of thine anger? even according
to thy fear, so is thy wrath. |
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So teach us to number our days, that we may apply our
hearts unto wisdom. |
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Return, O LORD, how long? and let it repent thee concerning
thy servants. |
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O satisfy us early with thy mercy; that we may rejoice
and be glad all our days. |
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Make us glad according to the days wherein thou hast
afflicted us, and the years wherein we have seen evil. |
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Let thy work appear unto thy servants, and thy glory
unto their children. |
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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. |
