A Prayer of Moses the man of God.
1 Lord, thou hast been our dwelling place in all generations.
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.
3 Thou turnest man to destruction; and sayest, Return, ye children of men.
4 For a thousand years in thy sight are but 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 which 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 wrath 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 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.
12 So teach us to number our days, that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom.
13 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.
16 Let thy work appear unto thy servants, and thy glory unto their children.
17 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.
1 Αἶνος ᾠδῆς τῷ Δαυιδ.
Ὁ κατοικῶν ἐν βοηθείᾳ τοῦ ὑψίστου
ἐν σκέπῃ τοῦ θεοῦ τοῦ οὐρανοῦ αὐλισθήσεται.
2 ἐρεῖ τῷ κυρίῳ Ἀντιλήμπτωρ μου εἶ καὶ καταφυγή μου,
ὁ θεός μου, ἐλπιῶ ἐπ᾽ αὐτόν,
3 ὅτι αὐτὸς ῥύσεταί με ἐκ παγίδος θηρευτῶν
καὶ ἀπὸ λόγου ταραχώδους.
4 ἐν τοῖς μεταφρένοις αὐτοῦ ἐπισκιάσει σοι,
καὶ ὑπὸ τὰς πτέρυγας αὐτοῦ ἐλπιεῖς·
ὅπλῳ κυκλώσει σε ἡ ἀλήθεια αὐτοῦ.
5 οὐ φοβηθήσῃ ἀπὸ φόβου νυκτερινοῦ,
ἀπὸ βέλους πετομένου ἡμέρας,
6 ἀπὸ πράγματος διαπορευομένου ἐν σκότει,
ἀπὸ συμπτώματος καὶ δαιμονίου μεσημβρινοῦ.
7 πεσεῖται ἐκ τοῦ κλίτους σου χιλιὰς
καὶ μυριὰς ἐκ δεξιῶν σου,
πρὸς σὲ δὲ οὐκ ἐγγιεῖ·
8 πλὴν τοῖς ὀφθαλμοῖς σου κατανοήσεις
καὶ ἀνταπόδοσιν ἁμαρτωλῶν ὄψῃ.
9 ὅτι σύ, κύριε, ἡ ἐλπίς μου·
τὸν ὕψιστον ἔθου καταφυγήν σου.
10 οὐ προσελεύσεται πρὸς σὲ κακά,
καὶ μάστιξ οὐκ ἐγγιεῖ τῷ σκηνώματί σου,
11 ὅτι τοῖς ἀγγέλοις αὐτοῦ ἐντελεῖται περὶ σοῦ
τοῦ διαφυλάξαι σε ἐν πάσαις ταῖς ὁδοῖς σου·
12 ἐπὶ χειρῶν ἀροῦσίν σε,
μήποτε προσκόψῃς πρὸς λίθον τὸν πόδα σου·
13 ἐπ᾽ ἀσπίδα καὶ βασιλίσκον ἐπιβήσῃ
καὶ καταπατήσεις λέοντα καὶ δράκοντα.
14 ὅτι ἐπ᾽ ἐμὲ ἤλπισεν, καὶ ῥύσομαι αὐτόν·
σκεπάσω αὐτόν, ὅτι ἔγνω τὸ ὄνομά μου.
15 ἐπικαλέσεταί με, καὶ εἰσακούσομαι αὐτοῦ,
μετ᾽ αὐτοῦ εἰμι ἐν θλίψει
καὶ ἐξελοῦμαι καὶ δοξάσω αὐτόν.
16 μακρότητα ἡμερῶν ἐμπλήσω αὐτὸν
καὶ δείξω αὐτῷ τὸ σωτήριόν μου.