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ORD, thou hast been our | refuge:

from one generation | to another.

2 Before the mountains were brought forth,

or ever the earth and the world | were made.

thou art God from everlasting, and | world without end.

3 Thou turnest man to destruction:

again thou sayest, Come again, ye | children of men.
4 For a thousand years in thy sight are but as yesterday:
seeing that is past as a watch in the night.

5 As soon as thou scatterest them they are even as a sleep:
and fade away suddenly like the grass.

6 In the morning it is green and grow eth up:

but in the evening it is cut down, dried | up and withered.

7 For we consume away in thy displeasure:

and are afraid at thy wrathful | indignation.

8 Thou hast set our misdeeds before thee:

and our secret sins in the light of thy countenance.

9 For when thou art angry all our days are gone:

we bring our years to an end, as it were a tale that is told.

10 The days of our age are threescore years and ten;

and though men be so strong that they come to four score years: yet is their strength then but labour and sorrow;

so soon passeth it a way and we are gone.

11 O teach us to number | our days:

that we may apply our hearts | unto wisdom.

Glory be to the Father and to the Son:

and to the Holy Ghost;

As it was in the beginning, † is now and ever | shall be:

world without end.

Intonation only in the first verse.

Amen.

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