
Day 18 : Morning Prayer

90 - Domine, refugium

1   Lord, you have been our refuge *
    from one generation to another.

2   Before the mountains were brought forth, or the earth and the world were made, *
    you are God from everlasting, and world without end.

3   You turn man back to the dust; *
    you say, “Return, O children of men.”

4   For a thousand years in your sight are as yesterday, *
    even as a day that is past.

5   You scatter them as a night-watch that comes quickly to an end; *
    they are even as a dream and fade away.

6   They are like the grass, which in the morning is green, *
    but in the evening is dried up and withered.

7   For we consume away in your displeasure *
    and are afraid at your wrathful indignation.

8   You have set our misdeeds before you, *
    and our secret sins in the light of your countenance.

9   For when you are angry, all our days are gone; *
    we bring our years to an end, as a tale that is told.

10  The days of our life are seventy years, and though some be so strong that they come to eighty years, *
    yet is their span but labor and sorrow; so soon it passes away, and we are gone.

11  But who regards the power of your wrath, *
    and who considers the fierceness of your anger?

12  So teach us to number our days, *
    that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom.

13  Turn again, O Lord, and tarry not; *
    be gracious unto your servants.

14  O satisfy us with your mercy in the morning; *
    so shall we rejoice and be glad all the days of our life.

15  Comfort us again, according to the measure of the days that you have afflicted us, *
    and for the years in which we have suffered adversity.

16  Show your servants your work *
    and their children your glory.

17  And may the grace of the Lord our God be upon us; *
    prosper the work of our hands; O prosper our handiwork.
