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Psalm 89
In the morning he shall pass away like grass

LORD you are made/ A REFUGE for us:/ from generation to/ generation./ Before the mountains/ were made or the earth and the world/ was formed: from eternity/ to eternity you are god./ Do not turn man away to be brought low:/ and you have said be converted you children of men./ Because a thousand years before your eyes:/ are as yesterday that is past/ And their years shall be as a watch in the night: things that are counted nothing./ In the morning he shall pass away like grass:/ in the morning he shall flourish and pass away:/ and in the evening he shall fall grow dry and wither./ Because we have fainted away in your anger:/ and we are alarmed in your rage./ You have put our injustices before your sight:/

Transcription

Mane sicut herba t[ra]nseat
D[OMI]NE REFUGIU[M] / factus es nobis: / a generatione in / generationem. / Pri[us]qua[m] montes / fierent aut / formaret[ur] terra / et orbis: a seculo / et in seculum tu es deus. / Ne avertas homine[m] in humilitatem: / et dixisti convertimini filii hominu[m]. / Q[uonia]m mille anni ante oculos tuos: / ta[m]qua[m] dies hesterna qu[a]e p[rae]teriit / Et custodia in nocte: qu[a]e p[ro] nichilo habent[ur] / eor[um] anni erunt. / Mane sicut herba transeat: / mane floreat et transeat: / vesp[er]e decidat induret et arescat. / Quia defecim[us] in ira tua: / et in furore tuo turbati sumus. / Posuisti iniq[u]itates n[ost]ras in conspectu tuo: /

Translation

Psalm 89
In the morning he shall pass away like grass

LORD you are made/ A REFUGE for us:/ from generation to/ generation./ Before the mountains/ were made or the earth and the world/ was formed: from eternity/ to eternity you are god./ Do not turn man away to be brought low:/ and you have said be converted you children of men./ Because a thousand years before your eyes:/ are as yesterday that is past/ And their years shall be as a watch in the night: things that are counted nothing./ In the morning he shall pass away like grass:/ in the morning he shall flourish and pass away:/ and in the evening he shall fall grow dry and wither./ Because we have fainted away in your anger:/ and we are alarmed in your rage./ You have put our injustices before your sight:/

 

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