BOOK 4: Lord, you have been our dwelling place for all generations.
Psalms
1 Moses, setting forth God's providence, 3 Complains of human fragility, 7 Divine chastisement, 10 and brevity of life, 12 He prays for the knowledge and sensible experience of God's good providence
A Prayer of Moses the man of God. Lord, thou hast been our dwelling place in all generations.
Job 38:4-6;Pro 8:25 2 Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever thou hadst formed the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting, thou art God.
Heb 13:8;2 Pet 3:8 4 For a thousand years in thy sight are but as yesterday when it is past, and as a watch in the night.
Isa 40:65 Thou carriest them away as with a flood; they are as a sleep: in the morning they are like grass which groweth up.
Job 14:2;Psa 92:7 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 wrath are we troubled.
Heb 4:12-13;1 Cor 4:5;Rom 2:16 8 Thou hast set our iniquities before thee, our secret sins in the light of thy countenance.
9 For all our days are passed away in thy wrath: we spend our years as a tale that is told.
10 The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labour and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away.
11 Who knoweth the power of thine anger? even according to thy fear, so is thy wrath.
Psa 39:412 ¶ So teach us to number our days, that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom.
Deu 32:3613 Return, O Lord, how long? and let it repent thee concerning thy servants.
14 O satisfy us early with thy mercy; that we may rejoice and be glad all our days.
15 Make us glad according to the days wherein thou hast afflicted us, and the years wherein we have seen evil.