Book of Common Prayer

A Prayer of Moses, the man of God.

90 Lord, *thou* hast been our dwelling-place in all generations.

² Before the mountains were brought forth, and thou hadst formed the earth and the world, even from eternity to eternity thou art God.

³ Thou makest [mortal] man to return to dust, and sayest, Return, children of men.

⁴ For a thousand years, in thy sight, are as yesterday when it is past, and [as] a watch in the night.

⁵ Thou carriest them away as with a flood; they are [as] a sleep: in the morning they are like grass [that] groweth up:

⁶ In the morning it flourisheth and groweth up; in the evening it is cut down and withereth.

⁷ For we are consumed by thine anger, and by thy fury are we troubled.

⁸ Thou hast set our iniquities before thee, our secret [sins] in the light of thy countenance.

⁹ For all our days pass away in thy wrath: we spend our years as a [passing] thought.

¹⁰ The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if, by reason of strength, they be fourscore years, yet their pride is labour and vanity, for it is soon cut off, and we fly away.

¹¹ Who knoweth the power of thine anger? and thy wrath according to the fear of thee?

¹² So teach [us] to number our days, that we may acquire a wise heart.

¹³ Return, Jehovah: how long? and let it repent thee concerning thy servants.

¹⁴ Satisfy us early with thy loving-kindness; that we may sing for joy and be glad all our days.

¹⁵ Make us glad according to the days [wherein] thou hast afflicted us, according to the years [wherein] we have seen evil.

¹⁶ Let thy work appear unto thy servants, and thy majesty unto their sons.

¹⁷ And let the beauty of Jehovah our God be upon us; and establish thou the work of our hands upon us: yea, the work of our hands, establish thou it.

¹⁵ And ye shall leave your name for a curse unto mine elect; for the Lord Jehovah will slay thee, and will call his servants by another name:

¹⁶ so that he who blesseth himself in the land shall bless himself by the God of truth; and he that sweareth in the land shall swear by the God of truth: because the former troubles shall be forgotten, and because they shall be hidden from mine eyes.

¹⁷ For behold, I create new heavens and a new earth; and the former shall not be remembered, nor come into mind.

¹⁸ But be glad and rejoice for ever in that which I create. For behold, I create Jerusalem a rejoicing, and her people a joy.

¹⁹ And I will rejoice over Jerusalem, and will joy in my people; and the voice of weeping shall be no more heard in her, nor the voice of crying.

²⁰ There shall be no more thenceforth an infant of days, nor an old man that hath not completed his days; for the youth shall die a hundred years old, and the sinner being a hundred years old shall be accursed.

²¹ And they shall build houses, and inhabit them; and they shall plant vineyards, and eat the fruit thereof:

²² they shall not build, and another inhabit; they shall not plant, and another eat: for as the days of a tree shall be the days of my people, and mine elect shall long enjoy the work of their hands.

²³ They shall not labour in vain, nor bring forth for terror; for they are the seed of the blessed of Jehovah, and their offspring with them.

²⁴ And it shall come to pass, that before they call, I will answer; while they are yet speaking, I will hear.

²⁵ The wolf and the lamb shall feed together, and the lion shall eat straw like the ox; and dust shall be the serpent's meat. They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain, saith Jehovah.

21 And I saw a new heaven and a new earth; for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away, and the sea exists no more.

² And I saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down out of the heaven from God, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband.

³ And I heard a loud voice out of the heaven, saying, Behold, the tabernacle of God [is] with men, and he shall tabernacle with them, and they shall be his people, and God himself shall be with them, their God.

⁴ And he shall wipe away every tear from their eyes; and death shall not exist any more, nor grief, nor cry, nor distress shall exist any more, for the former things have passed away.

⁵ And he that sat on the throne said, Behold, I make all things new. And he says [to me], Write, for these words are true and faithful.

⁶ And he said to me, It is done. I am the Alpha and the Omega, the beginning and the end. I will give to him that thirsts of the fountain of the water of life freely.