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Psalms 90

1 Mosés in his prayer setteth before us the eternal favour of God toward his, 3 Who are neither admonished by the brevitie of their life, 7 Nor by his plagues to be thankful, 12 Therefore Mosés praieth God to turn their hearts and continue his mercies toward them, and their posterity for ever.
¶ A praier of Mosés, the aman of God.
1.Lord, thou hast been our bhabitation from generation to generation.
2.Before the cmountains were made, & before thou hadest formed the earth, and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting thou art our God.
3.Thou dturnest man to destruction: again thou saiest, Return, ye sons of Adám.
4.eFor a thousand years in thy sight are as yesterday when it is past, and as a watch in the night.
5.Thou hast foverflowed them: they are as a sleep: in the morning he growth like the grass:
6.In the morning it florisheth and groweth, but in the evening it is cut down and withereth.
7.For we gare consumed by thine anger, and by thy wrath are we troubled.
8.Thou hast set our iniquities before thee, and our secret sinnes in the light of thy countenance.
9.For all our days are past in thine anger: we have hspent our years as a thought.
10.The time of our life is threescore years and ten, and if they be of strength, ifourscore years: yet their strength is but labour and sorrow, for it is cut off quickly, and we flee away.
11.kWho knoweth the power of thy wrath? for according to thy fear is thine anger.
12.Teach us so to number our days, that we maie apply our hearts unto lwisdom.
13.Return (ô Lord, mhow long?) and be ^pacified toward thy servants.
14.Fill us with thy mercy in the morning: so shal we rejoyce and be glad all our days.
15.Comfort us according to the days that thou hast afflicted us, and according to the years that we have seen evil.
16.nLet thy work be seen toward thy servants, and thy glory upon their ochildren.
17.And let the pbeautie of the Lord our God be upon us, and qdirect thou the work of our hands upon us, even direct the work of our hands.

Notes

1-b.
You have been as an house and defence unto us in all our troubles and travails now this four hundred years.
2-c.
You have chosen us to be your people before the foundations of the world were laid.
3-d.
Moses by lamenting the frailty and shortness of man’s life moves God to pity.
4-e.
Though man think his life long, which is indeed most short, yea, though it were a thousand years: yet in God’s sight it is as nothing, and as the watch that lasts but three hours.
5-f.
You take them away suddenly as with a flood.
7-g.
You call us by your rods to consider the shortness of our life, and for our sins you abridge our days.
9-h.
Our days are not only short, but miserable, forasmuch as our sins daily provoke your wrath.
10-i.
Meaning, according to the common state of life.
11-k.
If man’s life for the brevity be miserable, much more, if your wrath lie upon it, as they, which fear you only know.
12-l.
Which is by considering the shortness of our life and by meditating the heavenly joys.
13-^.
Or, take comfort in your servants.
13-m.
Meaning, will you be angry?
16-n.
Even your mercy, which is your chiefest work.
16-o.
As God’s promises appertained aswel to their posterity, as to them, so Moses prayed for the posterity.
17-p.
Meaning that it was obscured, when he ceased to do good to his Church.
17-q.
For except you guide us with your holy Spirit, our enterprises can have no good success.