God

How long, ADONAI? Will you hide yourself forever? How long will your fury burn like fire?

Remember how little time I have! Was it for no purpose that you created all humanity?

Where, Adonai, are the acts of grace you once did, those which, in your faithfulness, you swore to David?

Remember, Adonai, the taunts hurled at your servants, which I carry in my heart [from] so many peoples!

Your enemies, ADONAI, have flung their taunts, flung them in the footsteps of your anointed one.

Blessed be ADONAI forever. Amen. Amen.

A prayer of Moshe the man of God: Adonai, you have been our dwelling place in every generation.

Before the mountains were born, before you had formed the earth and the world, from eternity past to eternity future you are God.

For from your viewpoint a thousand years are merely like yesterday or a night watch.

For we are destroyed by your anger, overwhelmed by your wrath.

You have placed our faults before you, our secret sins in the full light of your presence.

All our days ebb away under your wrath; our years die away like a sigh.

Who grasps the power of your anger and wrath to the degree that the fear due you should inspire?

Return, ADONAI! How long must it go on? Take pity on your servants!

Fill us at daybreak with your love, so that we can sing for joy as long as we live.

Let our joy last as long as the time you made us suffer, for as many years as we experienced trouble.

Show your deeds to your servants and your glory to their children.

May the favor of Adonai our God be on us, prosper for us all the work that we do -yes, prosper the work that we do.

You who live in the shelter of 'Elyon, who spend your nights in the shadow of Shaddai,

who say to ADONAI, "My refuge! My fortress! My God, in whom I trust!"

he will rescue you from the trap of the hunter and from the plague of calamities;

he will cover you with his pinions, and under his wings you will find refuge; his truth is a shield and protection.

For you have made ADONAI, the Most High, who is my refuge, your dwelling-place.

for he will order his angels to care for you and guard you wherever you go.

"Because he loves me, I will rescue him; because he knows my name, I will protect him.