A Prayer by Moses, the man of God *The Hebrew word rendered “God” is “Elohim.”.

• ¹ Lord, *The word translated “Lord” is “Adonai.” you have been our dwelling place for all generations.
• ²Before the mountains were brought forth,
• before you had formed the earth and the world,
• even from everlasting to everlasting, you are God.

• ³You turn man to destruction, saying,
• “Return, you children of men.”

• ⁴For a thousand years in your sight are just like yesterday when it is past,
• like a watch in the night.

• ⁵You sweep them away as they sleep.
• In the morning they sprout like new grass.

• ⁶In the morning it sprouts and springs up.
• By evening, it is withered and dry.

• ⁷For we are consumed in your anger.
• We are troubled in your wrath.

• ⁸You have set our iniquities before you,
• our secret sins in the light of your presence.

• ⁹For all our days have passed away in your wrath.
• We bring our years to an end as a sigh.

• ¹⁰The days of our years are seventy,
• or even by reason of strength eighty years;
• yet their pride is but labor and sorrow,
• for it passes quickly, and we fly away.

• ¹¹Who knows the power of your anger,
• your wrath according to the fear that is due to you?

• ¹²So teach us to number our days,
• that we may gain a heart of wisdom.

• ¹³Relent, Yahweh! *“Yahweh” is God’s proper Name, sometimes rendered “LORD” (all caps) in other translations.
• How long?
• Have compassion on your servants!

• ¹⁴Satisfy us in the morning with your loving kindness,
• that we may rejoice and be glad all our days.

• ¹⁵Make us glad for as many days as you have afflicted us,
• for as many years as we have seen evil.

• ¹⁶Let your work appear to your servants;
• your glory to their children.

• ¹⁷Let the favor of the Lord our God be on us;
• establish the work of our hands for us;
• yes, establish the work of our hands.