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Lord, thou hast been our dwelling place in all generations. Explain This Verse
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Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever thou hadst formed the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting, thou art God. Explain This Verse
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Thou turnest man to destruction; and sayest, Return, ye children of men. Explain This Verse
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For a thousand years in thy sight are but as yesterday when it is past, and as a watch in the night. Explain This Verse
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Thou carriest them away as with a flood; they are as a sleep: in the morning they are like grass which groweth up. Explain This Verse
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In the morning it flourisheth, and groweth up; in the evening it is cut down, and withereth. Explain This Verse
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For we are consumed by thine anger, and by thy wrath are we troubled. Explain This Verse
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Thou hast set our iniquities before thee, our secret sins in the light of thy countenance. Explain This Verse
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For all our days are passed away in thy wrath: we spend our years as a tale that is told. Explain This Verse
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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. Explain This Verse
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Who knoweth the power of thine anger? even according to thy fear, so is thy wrath. Explain This Verse
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So teach us to number our days, that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom. Explain This Verse
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Return, O Lord, how long? and let it repent thee concerning thy servants. Explain This Verse
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O satisfy us early with thy mercy; that we may rejoice and be glad all our days. Explain This Verse
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Make us glad according to the days wherein thou hast afflicted us, and the years wherein we have seen evil. Explain This Verse
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Let thy work appear unto thy servants, and thy glory unto their children. Explain This Verse
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And let the beauty of the Lord our God be upon us: and establish thou the work of our hands upon us; yea, the work of our hands establish thou it. Explain This Verse