Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

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.

¹⁸ And king David went in and sat before Jehovah, and said, Who am I, Lord Jehovah, and what is my house, that thou hast brought me hitherto?

¹⁹ And yet this hath been a small thing in thy sight, Lord Jehovah; but thou hast spoken also of thy servant's house for a great while to come. And is this the manner of man, Lord Jehovah?

²⁰ And what can David say more to thee? for thou, Lord Jehovah, knowest thy servant.

²¹ For thy word's sake, and according to thine own heart, hast thou done all this greatness, to make thy servant know [it].

²² Wherefore thou art great, Jehovah Elohim; for there is none like thee, neither is there any God beside thee, according to all that we have heard with our ears.

²³ And who is like thy people, like Israel, the one nation in the earth that God went to redeem to be a people to himself, and to make himself a name, and to do for them great things and terrible, for thy land, before thy people, which thou redeemedst to thyself from Egypt, from the nations and their gods?

²⁴ And thou hast established to thyself thy people Israel to be a people unto thee for ever; and thou, Jehovah, art become their God.

²⁵ And now, Jehovah Elohim, the word that thou hast spoken concerning thy servant and concerning his house, fulfil it for ever, and do as thou hast said.

²⁶ And let thy name be magnified for ever, saying, Jehovah of hosts is God over Israel; and let the house of thy servant David be established before thee.

²⁷ For thou, Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel, hast revealed to thy servant, saying, I will build thee a house; therefore hath thy servant found in his heart to pray this prayer unto thee.

²⁸ And now, Lord Jehovah, thou art that God, and thy words are true, and thou hast promised this goodness unto thy servant;

²⁹ and now let it please thee to bless the house of thy servant, that it may be before thee for ever; for thou, Lord Jehovah, hast spoken it; and with thy blessing shall the house of thy servant be blessed for ever.

¹² Behold, I come quickly, and my reward with me, to render to every one as his work shall be.

¹³ *I* [am] the Alpha and the Omega, [the] first and [the] last, the beginning and the end.

¹⁴ Blessed [are] they that wash their robes, that they may have right to the tree of life, and that they should go in by the gates into the city.

¹⁵ Without [are] the dogs, and the sorcerers, and the fornicators, and the murderers, and the idolaters, and every one that loves and makes a lie.

¹⁶ *I* Jesus have sent mine angel to testify these things to you in the assemblies. *I* am the root and offspring of David, the bright [and] morning star.