1. Lord, Thou hast been our refuge: in every generation;

2. Before the hills were born, and the world was: from age to age

Thou art God.

3. Bring us not, Lord, very low: for Thou hast said, Come back again,

ye sons of Adam.

4. A thousand years before Thine eyes are but as yesterday: and as a

watch of the night which is come and gone.

5. The grass springs up in the morning: at evening-tide it shrivels

up and dies.

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