Before the mountains were brought forth, before the earth and the world were made, thou art God from everlasting and world without end.

O teach us to number our days, that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom.

For a thousand years in thy sight are but as yesterday, seeing that is passed as a watch in the night.

{A Prayer of Moses the man of God} LORD, thou hast been our refuge, from one generation to another.

The days of our age are threescore years and ten: and though men be so strong that they come to fourscore years, yet is their strength then but labour and sorrow; so soon passeth it away, and we are gone.

And the glorious majesty of the LORD our God be upon us. Prosper thou the work of our hands upon us; O prosper thou our handiwork.

O satisfy us with thy mercy, and that soon: so shall we rejoice and be glad all the days of our life.

Thou turnest man to destruction; Again, thou sayest, "Come again, ye children of men."

Thou hast set our misdeeds before thee, and our secret sins in the light of thy countenance.

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.

But who regardeth the power of thy wrath? For even thereafter as a man feareth, so is thy displeasure.

As soon as thou scatterest them, they are even as asleep, and fade away suddenly like the grass.

Show thy servants thy work, and their children thy glory.

Turn thee again, O LORD, at the last, and be gracious unto thy servants.

For we consume away in thy displeasure, and are afraid at thy wrathful indignation.

Comfort us again, now after the time that thou hast plagued us, and for the years wherein we have suffered adversity.

In the morning it is green and groweth up; but in the evening it is cut down, dried up, and withered.