The Webster Bible WBT
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1 A prayer of Moses the man of God. Lord, thou hast been our dwelling-place in all generations.
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Lord, you have been our home since the beginning.
2 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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Before the mountains were born and before you created the earth and the world, you are God. You have always been, and you will always be.
3 Thou turnest man to destruction; and sayest, Return, ye children of men.
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You turn people back into dust. You say, "Go back into dust, human beings."
4 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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To you, a thousand years is like the passing of a day, or like a few hours in the night.
5 Thou carriest them away as with a flood; they are [as] a sleep; in the morning [they are] like grass [which] groweth.
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While people sleep, you take their lives. They are like grass that grows up in the morning.
6 In the morning it flourisheth, and groweth; in the evening it is cut down, and withereth.
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In the morning they are fresh and new, but by evening they dry up and die.
7 For we are consumed by thy anger, and by thy wrath are we troubled.
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We are destroyed by your anger; we are terrified by your hot anger.
8 Thou hast set our iniquities before thee, our secret [sins] in the light of thy countenance.
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You have put the evil we have done right in front of you; you clearly see our secret sins.
9 For all our days are passed away in thy wrath: we spend our years, as a tale [that is told].
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All our days pass while you are angry. Our years end with a moan.
10 The days of our years [are] seventy years; and if by reason of strength [they are] eighty years, yet [is] their strength labor and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away.
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Our lifetime is seventy years or, if we are strong, eighty years. But the years are full of hard work and pain. They pass quickly, and then we are gone.
11 Who knoweth the power of thy anger? even according to thy fear, [so is] thy wrath.
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Who knows the full power of your anger? Your anger is as great as our fear of you should be.
12 So teach [us] to number [our] days, that we may apply our hearts to wisdom.
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Teach us how short our lives really are so that we may be wise.
13 Return, O LORD, how long? and repent thou concerning thy servants.
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Lord, how long before you return and show kindness to your servants?
14 O satisfy us early with thy mercy; that we may rejoice and be glad all our days.
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Fill us with your love every morning. Then we will sing and rejoice all our lives.
15 Make us glad according to the days [in which] thou hast afflicted us, [and] the years [in which] we have seen evil.
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We have seen years of trouble. Now give us as much joy as you gave us sorrow.
16 Let thy work appear to thy servants, and thy glory to their children.
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Show your servants the wonderful things you do; show your greatness to their children.
17 And let the beauty of the LORD our God be upon us: and establish thou the work of our hands upon us; yes, the work of our hands establish thou it.
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Lord our God, treat us well. Give us success in what we do; yes, give us success in what we do.
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