| 1. A prayer of Moses, the man of God. O Lord, You have been our dwelling place throughout all generations. |
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| 2. Before the mountains were born, and You brought forth the earth and the inhabited world, and from everlasting to everlasting, You are God. |
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| 3. You bring man to the crushing point, and You say, "Return, O sons of men." |
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ג. |
| 4. For a thousand years are in Your eyes like yesterday, which passed, and a watch in the night. |
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| 5. You carry them away as a flood; they are like a sleep; in the morning, like grass it passes away. |
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ה. |
| 6. In the morning, it blossoms and passes away; in the evening, it is cut off and withers. |
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| 7. For we perish from Your wrath, and from Your anger we are dismayed. |
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| 8. You have placed our iniquities before You, [the sins of] our youth before the light of Your countenance. |
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ח. |
| 9. For all our days have passed away in Your anger; we have consumed our years as a murmur. |
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ט. |
| 10. The days of our years because of them are seventy years, and if with increase, eighty years; but their pride is toil and pain, for it passes quickly and we fly away. |
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י. |
| 11. Who knows the might of Your wrath, and according to Your fear is Your anger. |
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יא. |
| 12. So teach the number of our days, so that we shall acquire a heart of wisdom. |
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יב. |
| 13. Return, O Lord, how long? And repent about Your servants. |
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| 14. Satiate us in the morning with Your loving-kindness, and let us sing praises and rejoice with all our days. |
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יד. |
| 15. Cause us to rejoice according to the days that You afflicted us, the years that we saw evil. |
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טו. |
| 16. May Your works appear to Your servants, and Your beauty to their sons. |
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טז. |
| 17. And may the pleasantness of the Lord our God be upon us, and the work of our hands establish for us, and the work of our hands establish it. |
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