New English [1970], THE NEW ENGLISH BIBLE (OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS; CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS, CAMBRIDGE) [word count] [B16000].
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1 Lord, thou hast been our refuge
from generation to generation.
2 Before the mountains were brought forth,
or earth and world were born in travail,
from age to age everlasting thou art God.
3 Thou turnest man back into dust;
‘Turn back,’ thou sayest, ‘you sons of men’;
4 for in thy sight a thousand years are as yesterday;
5 a night-watch passes, and thou hast cut them off;
they are like a dream at daybreak,
6 they fade like grass which springs up note with the morning
but when evening comes is parched and withered.
7 So we are brought to an end by thy anger
and silenced by thy wrath.
8 Thou dost lay bare our iniquities before thee
and our lusts in the full light of thy presence.
9 All our days go by under the shadow of thy wrath;
our years die away like a murmur. note
10 Seventy years is the span of our life,
eighty if our strength holds; note
the hurrying years are labour and sorrow,
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so quickly they pass and are forgotten.
11 Who feels the power of thy anger,
who feels thy wrath like those that fear thee?
12 Teach us to order our days rightly,
that we may enter the gate of wisdom.
13 How long, O Lord?
Relent, and take pity on thy servants.
14 Satisfy us with thy love when morning breaks,
that we may sing for joy and be glad all our days.
15 Repay us days of gladness for our days of suffering,
for the years thou hast humbled us.
16 Show thy servants thy deeds
and their children thy majesty.
17 May all delightful things be ours, O Lord our God;
establish firmly all we do. note
New English [1970], THE NEW ENGLISH BIBLE (OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS; CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS, CAMBRIDGE) [word count] [B16000].
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