From Everlasting to Everlasting, You Are God

A Prayer of [†]Moses, the man of God.

1Lord, You have been our [†]dwelling place from generation to generation.

2Before the mountains were born

[†]Or You brought forth the earth and the world,

Even from everlasting to everlasting, You are God.

3You turn man back into dust

And say, “Return, O sons of men.”

4For a thousand years in Your sight

Are like yesterday when it passes by,

[†]Or as a watch in the night.

5You have [†]swept them away like a flood, they [†]fall asleep;

In the morning they are like grass which [†]sprouts anew.

6In the morning it blossoms and [†]sprouts anew;

Toward evening it withers away and dries up.

7For we have been consumed by Your anger

And by Your wrath we have been [†]dismayed.

8You have set our iniquities before You,

Our secret sins in the light of Your presence.

9For all our days have declined in Your fury;

We have finished our years like a [†]sigh.

10As for the days of our [†]life, [†]they contain seventy years,

Or if due to might, eighty years,

Yet their pride is but labor and wickedness;

For soon it is gone and we fly away.

11Who knows the power of Your anger

And Your fury, according to the fear [†]that is due You?

12[†]So teach us to number our days,

That we may [†]present to You a heart of wisdom.

13Return, O Yahweh; how long will it be?

And [†]be sorry for Your slaves.

14O satisfy us in the morning with Your lovingkindness,

That we may sing for joy and be glad all our days.

15Make us glad [†]according to the days You have afflicted us,

And the years we have seen [†]evil.

16Let Your work appear to Your slaves

And Your majesty [†]to their sons.

17Let the favor of the Lord our God be upon us;

And establish for us the work of our hands;

Establish the work of our hands.