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Apoteichisis

The Old Testament

Psalms 89

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17 Brenton verses

Brenton 89:1

A Prayer of Moses the man of God. Lord, thou hast been our refuge in all generations.

Brenton 89:2

Before the mountains existed, and before the earth and the world were formed, even from age to age, Thou art.

Brenton 89:3

Turn not man back to his low place, whereas thou saidst, Return, ye sons of men?

Brenton 89:4

For a thousand years in thy sight are as the yesterday which is past, and as a watch in the night.

Brenton 89:5

Years shall be vanity to them: let the morning pass away as grass.

Source notes (1)
  • Gr. their vanities or rejections.
Brenton 89:6

In the morning let it flower, and pass away: in the evening let it droop, let it be withered and dried up.

Brenton 89:7

For we have perished in thine anger, and in thy wrath we have been troubled.

Brenton 89:8

Thou hast set our transgressions before thee: our age is in the light of thy countenance.

Brenton 89:9

For all our days are gone, and we have passed away in thy wrath: our years have spun out their tale as a spider.

Source notes (1)
  • Gr. mediated.
Brenton 89:10

As for the days of our years, in them are seventy years; and if men should be in strength, eighty years: and the greater part of them would be labour and trouble; for weakness overtakes us, and we shall be chastened.

Source notes (1)
  • Or, what is more than these.
Brenton 89:11

Who knows the power of thy wrath?

Brenton 89:12

and who knows how to number his days because of the fear of thy wrath? So manifest thy right hand, and those that are instructed in wisdom in the heart.

Brenton 89:13

Return, O Lord, how long? and be intreated concerning thy servants.

Brenton 89:14

We have been satisfied in the morning with thy mercy; and we did exult and rejoice:

Brenton 89:15

let us rejoice in all our days, in return for the days wherein thou didst afflict us, the years wherein we saw evil.

Brenton 89:16

And look upon thy servants, and upon thy works; and guide their children.

Brenton 89:17

And let the brightness of the Lord our God be upon us: and do thou direct for us the works of our hands.

Source notes (2)
  • Or, prosper.
  • Alex. + yea, prosper thou the work of our hands.

Brenton supplied wording, small capitals, translation notes, Greek wording, and edition-specific verse identifiers are retained. Parallel passages keep each edition's own references. Editions and sources.