1 A prayer of Moyses the man of God. Lord, thou art made a refuge for vs: from generation vnto generation.
2 Before the mountaines were made, or the earth and the world formed: from euerlasting euen vnto euerlasting thou art God.
3 Turne not away man into humiliation: thou saidst: Be conuerted ye children of men.
4 Because a thousand years before thine eies, are as yesterday, that is past. And as a watch in the night,
5 thinges that are counted nothing shal their years be.
6 In the morning as an herbe he shal passe, in the morning he shal florish, and passe: in the euening he shal fal, be hardened, and withered.
7 Because we haue faynted in thy wrath, and in thy furie we are trubled.
8 Thou hast put our iniquities in thy sight: our age in the light of thy countinance.
9 Because al our daies haue failed: and in thy wrath we haue failed. Our yeares shal be considered as a spyder:
10 the daies of our yeares in them, are seuentie yeares. And if in strong ones eightie years: and the more of them, labour and sorrow. Because mildnes is come vpon vs: and we shal be chastised.
11 Who knoweth the powre of thy wrath: and for feare
12 to number thy wrath? So make thy righthand knowne: and men learned in hart, in wisedome.
13 Turne ô Lord, how long? and be intreated for thy seruants.
14 We are replenished in the morning with thy mercie: and we haue reioyced, and are delighted al our daies.
15 We haue reioyced for the daies wherin thou hast humbled vs: the yeares, wherin we haue seene euils.
16 Looke vpon thy seruants, and vpon thy workes: and direct their children.
17 And let the brightnes of our Lord God be vpon vs, and direct thou the workes of our handes ouer vs: and the worke of our handes doe thou direct.