| 1 | A Prayer of Moses, the man of God. Lord, a habitation Thou —Thou hast been, To us—in generation and generation, |
| 2 | Before mountains were brought forth, And Thou dost form the earth and the world, Even from age unto age Thou [art] God. |
| 3 | Thou turnest man unto a bruised thing, And sayest, Turn back, ye sons of men. |
| 4 | For a thousand years in Thine eyes [are] as yesterday, For it passeth on, yea, a watch by night. |
| 5 | Thou hast inundated them, they are asleep, In the morning as grass he changeth. |
| 6 | In the morning it flourisheth, and hath changed, At evening it is cut down, and hath withered. |
| 7 | For we were consumed in Thine anger, And in Thy fury we have been troubled. |
| 8 | Thou hast set our iniquities before Thee, Our hidden things at the light of Thy face, |
| 9 | For all our days pined away in Thy wrath, We consumed our years as a meditation. |
| 10 | Days of our years, in them [are] seventy years, And if, by reason of might, eighty years, Yet [is] their enlargement labour and vanity, For it hath been cut off hastily, and we fly away. |
| 11 | Who knoweth the power of Thine anger? And according to Thy fear—Thy wrath? |
| 12 | To number our days aright let [us] know, And we bring the heart to wisdom. |
| 13 | Turn back, O Jehovah, till when? And repent concerning Thy servants. |
| 14 | Satisfy us at morn [with] Thy kindness, And we sing and rejoice all our days. |
| 15 | Cause us to rejoice according to the days Wherein Thou hast afflicted us, The years we have seen evil. |
| 16 | Let Thy work appear unto Thy servants, And Thine honour on their sons. |
| 17 | And let the pleasantness of Jehovah our God be upon us, And the work of our hands establish on us, Yea, the work of our hands establish it! |