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And as a watch in the night.

⁵Thou carriest them away as with a flood; they are as a sleep;

In the morning they are like grass which groweth up.

⁶In the morning it flourisheth, and groweth up;

In the evening it is cut down, and withereth.

 

⁷For we are consumed in Thine anger,

And by Thy wrath are we hurried away.

⁸Thou hast set our iniquities before Thee,

Our secret sins in the light of Thy countenance.

⁹For all our days are passed away in Thy wrath;

We bring our years to an end as a tale that is told.

¹⁰The days of our years are threescore years and ten,

Or even by reason of strength fourscore years;

Yet is their pride but travail and vanity;

For it is speedily gone, and we fly away.

¹¹Who knoweth the power of Thine anger,

And Thy wrath according to the fear that is due unto Thee?

¹²So teach us to number our days,

That we may get us a heart of wisdom.

 

¹³Return, O Lord; how long? And let it repent Thee concerning Thy servants.

¹⁴O satisfy us in the morning with Thy mercy;

That we may rejoice and be glad all our days.

¹⁵Make us glad according to the days wherein Thou hast afflicted us,

According to the years wherein we have seen evil.

¹⁶Let Thy work appear unto Thy servants,

And Thy glory upon their children.

¹⁷And let the graciousness of the Lord our God be upon us;

Establish Thou also upon us the work of our hands;

Yea, the work of our hands establish Thou it.

91O thou that dwellest in the covert of the Most High,

And abidest in the shadow of the Almighty;

²I will say of the Lord, who is my refuge and my fortress,

My God, in whom I trust,

³That He will deliver thee from the snare of the fowler,

And from the noisome pestilence.

⁴He will cover thee with His pinions,

And under His wings shalt thou take refuge;

His truth is a shield and a buckler.

 

⁵Thou shalt not be afraid of the terror by night,

Nor of the arrow that flieth by day;

⁶Of the pestilence that walketh in darkness,

Nor of the destruction that wasteth at noonday.

 

⁷A thousand may fall at Thy side,

And ten thousand at Thy right hand;

It shall not come nigh thee.

⁸Only with thine eyes shalt thou behold,

And see the recompense of the wicked.

 

⁹For thou hast made the Lord who is my refuge,

Even the Most High, thy habitation.

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