{ "1": "Lord, you have been our refuge\n\\q throughout all generations.\n\\q", "2": "Before the mountains were formed,\n\\q or you formed the earth and the world,\n\\q from everlasting to everlasting, you are God.\n\n\\s5\n\\q", "3": "You return man to dust,\n\\q and you say, “Return, you descendants of mankind.”\n\\q", "4": "For a thousand years in your sight\n\\q are as yesterday when it is past,\n\\q and as a watch in the night.\n\n\\s5\n\\q", "5": "You sweep them away as with a flood and they sleep;\n\\q in the morning they are like the grass that sprouts up.\n\\q", "6": "In the morning it blooms and grows up;\n\\q in the evening it withers and dries up.\n\n\\s5\n\\q", "7": "Truly, we are consumed in your anger,\n\\q and in your wrath we are terrified.\n\\q", "8": "You have set our iniquities before you,\n\\q our hidden sins in the light of your presence.\n\n\\s5\n\\q", "9": "Our life passes away under your wrath;\n\\q our years quickly pass like a sigh.\n\\q", "10": "Our years are seventy,\n\\q or even eighty if we are healthy;\n\\q but even our best years are marked by trouble and sorrow.\n\\q Yes, they pass quickly, and we fly away.\n\n\\s5\n\\q", "11": "Who knows the intensity of your anger,\n\\q and your wrath that is equal to the fear of you?\n\\q", "12": "So teach us to consider our life\n\\q so that we might live wisely.\n\\q", "13": "Turn back, Yahweh! How long will it be?\n\\q Have pity on your servants.\n\n\\s5\n\\q", "14": "Satisfy us in the morning with your covenant faithfulness\n\\q so that we may rejoice and be glad all our days.\n\\q", "15": "Make us glad in proportion to the days you afflicted us\n\\q and to the years we have experienced trouble.\n\\q", "16": "Let your servants see your work,\n\\q and let our children see your majesty.\n\n\\s5\n\\q", "17": "May the favor of the Lord our God be ours;\n\\q prosper the work of our hands;\n\\q indeed, prosper the work of our hands.\n\n\n\\s5", "front": "\\m\n\\d A prayer of Moses the man of God.\n\\q" }