Number Our Days

Verse

Lord, thou hast been our dwelling place in all generations

Before the mountains were brought forth or ever thou hadst formed the earth and the world

Even from everlasting to everlasting thou art God

Verse

Thou turnest man to destruction and sayest return ye children of men

For a thousand years in thy sight are but as yesterday when it is past

And as a watch in the night

Pre-chorus

Thou carriest them away as with a flood they are as a sleep

In the morning they are like grass which groweth up

In the morning it flourisheth and groweth up

In the evening it is cut down and withereth

Chorus

So teach us to number our days

That we may apply our hearts unto wisdom

So teach us to number our days

That we may apply our hearts unto wisdom

Verse

For we are consumed by thine anger and by thy wrath are we troubled

Thou hast set our iniquities before thee our secret sins in the light of thy countenance

For all our days are passed away in thy wrath

We spend our years as a tale that is told

Verse

The days of our years are threescore years and ten

And if by reason of strength they be fourscore years

Yet is their strength labour and sorrow

For it is soon cut off and we fly away

Bridge

Who knoweth the power of thine anger

Even according to thy fear so is thy wrath

Return O Lord how long

And let it repent thee concerning thy servants

Chorus

O satisfy us early with thy mercy

That we may rejoice and be glad all our days

Make us glad according to the days wherein thou hast afflicted us

And the years wherein we have seen evil

Outro

Let thy work appear unto thy servants

And thy glory unto their children

And let the beauty of the Lord our God be upon us

And establish thou the work of our hands upon us

Yea the work of our hands establish thou it