¹   Lord, you have been our dwelling place
          in all generations.
²   Before the mountains were brought forth,
          or ever you had formed the earth and the world,
          from everlasting to everlasting you are God.

³   You turn us back to dust,
          and say, “Turn back, you mortals.”
⁴   For a thousand years in your sight
          are like yesterday when it is past,
          or like a watch in the night.

⁵   You sweep them away; they are like a dream,
          like grass that is renewed in the morning;
⁶   in the morning it flourishes and is renewed;
          in the evening it fades and withers.

⁷   For we are consumed by your anger;
          by your wrath we are overwhelmed.
⁸   You have set our iniquities before you,
          our secret sins in the light of your countenance.

⁹   For all our days pass away under your wrath;
          our years come to an end like a sigh.
¹⁰  The days of our life are seventy years,
          or perhaps eighty, if we are strong;
     even then their span is only toil and trouble;
          they are soon gone, and we fly away.

¹¹  Who considers the power of your anger?
          Your wrath is as great as the fear that is due you.
¹²  So teach us to count our days
          that we may gain a wise heart.

¹³  Turn, O LORD! How long?
          Have compassion on your servants!
¹⁴  Satisfy us in the morning with your steadfast love,
          so that we may rejoice and be glad all our days.
¹⁵  Make us glad as many days as you have afflicted us,
          and as many years as we have seen evil.
¹⁶  Let your work be manifest to your servants,
          and your glorious power to their children.
¹⁷  Let the favor of the Lord our God be upon us,
          and prosper for us the work of our hands —
          O prosper the work of our hands!

¹   Praise the Lord!
     Sing to the Lord a new song,
          his praise in the assembly of the faithful.
²   Let Israel be glad in its Maker;
          let the children of Zion rejoice in their King.
³   Let them praise his name with dancing,
          making melody to him with tambourine and lyre.
⁴   For the Lord takes pleasure in his people;
          he adorns the humble with victory.
⁵   Let the faithful exult in glory;
          let them sing for joy on their couches.
⁶   Let the high praises of God be in their throats
          and two-edged swords in their hands,
⁷   to execute vengeance on the nations
          and punishment on the peoples,
⁸   to bind their kings with fetters
          and their nobles with chains of iron,
⁹   to execute on them the judgment decreed.
          This is glory for all his faithful ones.
     Praise the Lord!

¹   Give ear, O Shepherd of Israel,
          you who lead Joseph like a flock!
     You who are enthroned upon the cherubim, shine forth
²        before Ephraim and Benjamin and Manasseh.
     Stir up your might,
          and come to save us!

³   Restore us, O God;
     let your face shine, that we may be saved.

⁴   O LORD God of hosts,
          how long will you be angry with your people's prayers?
⁵   You have fed them with the bread of tears,
          and given them tears to drink in full measure.
⁶   You make us the scorn of our neighbors;
          our enemies laugh among themselves.

⁷   Restore us, O God of hosts;
          let your face shine, that we may be saved.

⁸   You brought a vine out of Egypt;
     you drove out the nations and planted it.
⁹   You cleared the ground for it;
          it took deep root and filled the land.
¹⁰  The mountains were covered with its shade,
          the mighty cedars with its branches;
¹¹  it sent out its branches to the sea,
          and its shoots to the River.
¹²  Why then have you broken down its walls,
          so that all who pass along the way pluck its fruit?
¹³  The boar from the forest ravages it,
          and all that move in the field feed on it.

¹⁴  Turn again, O God of hosts;
          look down from heaven, and see;
     have regard for this vine,
¹⁵       the stock that your right hand planted.
¹⁶  They have burned it with fire, they have cut it down;
          may they perish at the rebuke of your countenance.
¹⁷  But let your hand be upon the one at your right hand,
          the one whom you made strong for yourself.
¹⁸  Then we will never turn back from you;
          give us life, and we will call on your name.

¹⁹  Restore us, O LORD God of hosts;
          let your face shine, that we may be saved.

¹   Give the king your justice, O God,
          and your righteousness to a king’s son.
²   May he judge your people with righteousness,
          and your poor with justice.
³   May the mountains yield prosperity for the people,
          and the hills, in righteousness.
⁴   May he defend the cause of the poor of the people,
          give deliverance to the needy,
          and crush the oppressor.
⁵   May he live while the sun endures,
          and as long as the moon, throughout all generations.
⁶   May he be like rain that falls on the mown grass,
          like showers that water the earth.
⁷   In his days may righteousness flourish
          and peace abound, until the moon is no more.

⁸   May he have dominion from sea to sea,
          and from the River to the ends of the earth.
⁹   May his foes bow down before him,
          and his enemies lick the dust.
¹⁰  May the kings of Tarshish and of the isles
          render him tribute,
     may the kings of Sheba and Seba
          bring gifts.
¹¹  May all kings fall down before him,
          all nations give him service.

¹²  For he delivers the needy when they call,
          the poor and those who have no helper.
¹³  He has pity on the weak and the needy,
          and saves the lives of the needy.
¹⁴  From oppression and violence he redeems their life;
          and precious is their blood in his sight.

¹⁵  Long may he live!
          May gold of Sheba be given to him.
     May prayer be made for him continually,
          and blessings invoked for him all day long.
¹⁶  May there be abundance of grain in the land;
          may it wave on the tops of the mountains;
          may its fruit be like Lebanon;
     and may people blossom in the cities
          like the grass of the field.
¹⁷  May his name endure forever,
          his fame continue as long as the sun.
     May all nations be blessed in him;
          may they pronounce him happy.

¹⁸  Blessed be the LORD, the God of Israel,
          who alone does wondrous things.
¹⁹  Blessed be his glorious name forever;
          may his glory fill the whole earth. Amen and Amen.

²⁰The prayers of David son of Jesse are ended.