1  The prayer of Moses, the man of God. Lord, thou art made help to us; from generation into generation.

2 Before that hills were made, either the earth and the world was formed; from the world and into the world, thou art God.

3 Turn thou not away a man into lowness; and thou saidest, Ye sons of men, be turned again.

4 For a thousand years be before thine eyes; as yesterday, which is passed, and as [the] keeping in the night.

5 The years of them shall be; that be had for nought. Early pass he, as an herb,

6 early flourish he, and pass; in the eventide fall he down, be he hard, and wax he dry.

7 For we have failed in thine ire; and we be troubled in thy strong vengeance.

8 Thou hast set [or put] our wicked-nesses in thy sight; our world in the lightening of thy cheer.

9 For all our days have failed; and we have failed in thine ire. Our years we shall bethink upon as a spider;

10 the days of our years be those seventy years. Forsooth, if fourscore or eighty years be in mighty men; and the more time of them is travail and sorrow. For mildness came above; and we shall be chastised.

11 Who knew the power of thine ire; and durst number thine ire for thy dread?

12 Make thy right hand so known; and make men learned in heart by wisdom.

13 Lord, be thou converted some-deal; and be thou able to be prayed of by thy servants.

14 We were [ful] filled early with thy mercy; we made full out joy, and we delighted in all our days.

15 We were glad for the days in which thou madest us meek; for the years in which we saw evils.

16 Lord, behold thou into thy servants, and into thy works; and dress thou the sons of them.

17 And the shining of our Lord God be on us; and dress thou the works of our hands on us; and dress thou the works of our hands.