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PSALMS
- 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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