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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.