1. A prayer of Moses, the man of God.Lord, you have been our refugethrough all generations.
2. Before the mountains were born,the earth and the world brought forth,from eternity to eternity you are God.
3. You turn humanity back into dust,saying, “Return, you children of Adam!”
4. A thousand years in your eyesare merely a day gone by,Before a watch passes in the night,
5. you wash them away;They sleep,and in the morning they sprout again like an herb.
6. In the morning it blooms only to pass away;in the evening it is wilted and withered.
7. Truly we are consumed by your anger,filled with terror by your wrath.
8. You have kept our faults before you,our hidden sins in the light of your face.
9. Our life ebbs away under your wrath;our years end like a sigh.