Probably, each of us in childhood dreamed of a lifesaver. How cool it would be: waved, and help arrived in time. Our ancestors also dreamed of helping out, whose life was filled with dangers, illnesses and sorrows, oppression and suffering, perhaps much greater than those found in the lives of our contemporaries.

Now everything is much simpler, but not in the life of true Christians. The people of God suffer attacks from people, from evil spirits, waging war against the devil and his minions. Each believer clearly sees that, especially if he explicitly professes his faith, he has to suffer a lot for it: in everyday life, in personal life, in travel, at work, in society, etc. If he secretly professes his faith, then demons are hindered by other means.

But Christ, on the day of his ascension to heaven, promised the disciples who were worried that they would remain alone: \u200b\u200b"I am with you all the days." And every true believer knowsthat He does not leave a single believer in Him and calling for help. One of the main "magic wands" of any Christian, literally for any occasion, is a treasure for his spiritual life, a collection of prayers and psalms - the Psalter.

What is the Psalm and Psalms

The Psalter is one of the main Christian books, although it was written long before the birth of Christ by several authors.

Traditionally, the creator of the Psalms is considered the Old Testament prophet and king David. Although he himself in his psalms mentions “my fingers made up the Psalter” - that is, he, being the author, also recognizes himself as a compiler. However, in some psalms in the text of the book other authors are specifically indicated: the first psalmist of David Asaf himself, the temple gatekeepers of the sons of Koreyev (Korakh), and others. The best Jewish commentator of Rashi has ten authors to the Psalms, including Idifun, Abraham, Eman, Melchizedek, Adam, Asaph, Moses, the sons of Korea.

In some editions Psalms for psalms nthey also write the author. In many psalms, traces of a much later time are clearly visible, with something in which David lived: these are the times of the captivity of the Jews by the Babylonians and even later.

Psalter - collective spiritual labor

Most likely, the Psalter was formed gradually, like any fruit of collective creativity. However, the authors are united by one thing: all of them are people who had full fellowship with God, were righteous in His eyes and had the constant presence of God — the Holy Spirit. That is why every psalm is a joint creation of man and God. The Psalter combines the reflection of the difficulties, problems and feelings of a believer with the presence of God.

The souls of the saints, the authors of the psalms, were pleasing to God and he sanctified them with His presence, accompanied and provided the help they needed so much at that time. Each psalm is a symbiosis of human feelings and divine sanctification. Since God revealed his destinies to each of them, He showed His deeds. That is why everything that is described in them, and how each author perceived what is happening around, is the truth.

The authors of the psalms were people of different origin - noble, with excellent education, appropriate to his time, and ordinary people. If David was king and knew how to converti am with the word, which is evident from his beautiful psalms, then with his other author, Moses, everything is a little different.

Moses contribution

As you know, Moses was “shabby,” that is, he did not know how to speak beautifully and fluently (despite the fact that he was brought up at court, not having a royal origin). That is why, when God called Him to ministry, he repeatedly insisted on the Most High that He would choose for this another one who could beautifully and clearly tell people what was required of them. To which God was even angry with Moses, making it clear that he was the one who pleased him, and not the other. And he gave Moses to help Aaron, his brother, who was eloquent to “translate” to the people what was needed.

We mentioned above that the author of some psalms - and this is a poetic spiritual work that was performed with a musical string instrument - was exactly Moses. The same, tongue-tied not able to bind a few words. His psalm 89 is an example of spiritual and poetic creativity, in which historical events are also mentioned. Without inspiration from above it is impossible to convey so briefly, clearly and accurately all your aspirations and praises to the Almighty, to present His works, to sing His strength and glory.

Psalm 89 by Moses

“Lord,” the prophet exclaims, “the refuge was for us from generation to generation.” The prophet testifies that he sees the works of God, they are open to him by the Holy Spirit. “All our days have passed in Your anger; we are losing our years, they disappear like a sound. " The Prophet says that people greatly insulted their Heavenly Father by believing not in Him, but in the crafty serpent, who seduced Eve to taste the forbidden tree. Therefore, people on earth in those days, until the Savior came, lived in the wrath of God.

Then the prophet says: “Our days are seventy years old, and with a special fortress - eighty, and at the same time their best time is in their labors and worries, in their illnesses, and these best years pass quickly.” And then the man of God draws a conclusion that turns into a prayer request: "Teach us to spend our days in such a way as to be able to acquire a wise heart."

This is how the Lord makes a poet and a prayer book out of a tongue-tied man by the touch of His Spirit. Those who read and sang these words understood and felt a special, superhuman benefit for their souls and noticed that the Lord, when he was addressed by words from the psalm, especially quickly responded to them. After all, He himself participated in their appearance.

The saints noticed this fact and began to resort to the Psalms, to the words of righteous people more and more often.

When does the Psalter read

Without exaggeration, we can say that you can always read it. This collection contains such depth and wisdom of our predecessors, such a colossal experience of living on earth with God that there is literally not a single topic to which the words of the psalms did not fit. We can briefly outline some situations when people resorted to the Psalms:

In a word - always. Some saints made notes to the psalms when and in what situation the Lord helped through prayer with one or another psalm, for example, “let the deadlock open,” “let there be a lost key.”

The Lord hurries to help even  then when a person invokes him at least a line from the psalm. This is a proven fact: an angry boss softens or does not fulfill its formidable promises if a Christian prays to God with the words "Remember, God, David and all his gentleness." Despite the fact that the name David may not be the name of the worshiper, and he, to his shame, does not possess meekness, nevertheless, the Lord remembers His man - King David - and helps those who ask for his help, protection and mercy to oneself or loved ones.

What psalms to read under various circumstances

For each situation, its own psalm (or several) is suitable, which was recognized by holy people as the most fully reflecting the situation or, according to their experience, especially helping under certain circumstances, even if the psalm does not externally reflect the problem.

For example, they read:

Psalm for every need

There is such a service book in the Orthodox Church called the Trebnik. This is a collection in which the sequence of prayers that must be read and the actions that must be done in order to pray worthily before God or ask for His action or constant presence is recorded. It includes:

However, a lot is not taken into account by the Trebnik, and it was not created in order to foresee everything. At the same time, no one in the modern world dares to supplement it, adding it with their prayers, thereby putting themselves on a par with the holy people who made up the process of worship and prayers to the Lord. However, this is not an acute problem, since it was the Psalter that became the complement.

Arseny of Cappadocia, “Psalms for various occasions”

The Monk Arseny turned to the psalms for blessing when there was no specially composed church order for a special need. Saint Arseny sorted all the psalms into several very extensive sections:

Psalms are placed in each section.that are more detailed in any particular case.

Psalm 139

This psalm was written by the Old Testament righteous David at the time of great tribulation because of the troubles that befell him. He was persecuted by his son Absalom, who wanted to kill his father. The young man was extremely persistent in his intention, which caused terrible grief to his father. The content of the psalm is devoted almost entirely to enemies who do not infringe on their means in order to achieve the rightful throne of David.

This psalm is both prayer and lamentation to the Almighty. In it, the author transmits to God for judgment what intrigues yesterday were made by like-minded people and friends, and he is horrified by the variety of their tricks. The interpretation of Psalm 139 suggests that David was most suppressed by the persistence with which the adversaries persecuted him: he reports that they literally did not give him rest every day.

The psalmist asks the Creator to create in such a way that a lie from the mouth of the wicked falls on their own heads, and the name of the righteous is justified.

Psalm 22: why read

Recall modern American films. An acute moment, the life of a hero in the balance, and he begins to cry: "The Lord is my shepherd, I will not need anything."

The beauty and poetry of the syllable, the imagery of the language, as well as the brevity of presentation made this biblical text a true hit among the filmmakers. Several verses from it sounded in many blockbusters, series:

• "Terminator",
• "Titanic",
• "Sin City"
• X-Men,
• "Van Helsing",
• The Book of Eli,
• "The Mentalist" and many others. other

​ “The Lord is my shepherd ...”, etc., is a more modern and less accurate translation of the work. In a more accurate translation, its beginning sounds like "the Lord feeds me, and nothing will deprive me."

The main idea of \u200b\u200bthe 22 psalm, regardless of its translation and in which language to listen to it, remains as follows - Heavenly Father protects and protects his children, directs their thoughts and life to spiritual development. Then this thought is revealed. The Almighty provides all His children with everything necessary for life. The only misfortune is that they often do not notice this, take for granted the ability to live, to know God, to please their loved ones.

There is also an image of danger and death in the text, which makes the heroes of the blockbuster pray in these very words in the most dangerous moments of their lives. The author of the prayer is unshakably convinced that the Almighty will provide him with reliable protection, because He possesses all the forces and capabilities for this. Therefore, a believer experiences feelings of joy, hope, trusting in Him who holds everything in His hands.

89:1    The prayer of Moses, the man of God.
   The prayer of Moses, most likely the very one who led the Israel of God out of Egypt. It is interesting to listen to what this man prayed to God so that you could know the aspirations of the ancients and compare them with the aspirations of modern ones who pray to God.

89:2 Lord You are our refuge in the clan and clan.
Moses describes the meaning of God's existence for mankind, beginning with the recognition of His saving power for the people of God throughout eternity from generation to generation.

89:3   Before the mountains were born, and You formed the earth and the universe, and from century to century you are God.
Moses further recognizes the absolute right of God to rule over humanity on the simple basis that He is the Creator of him and all that was created for life on earth. He recognizes in God - the Ruler of eternity, from century to century, that is, understands that there is no other Lord Almighty over the universe.

89:4 You return a person to decay and say: "Come back, sons of men!"
By the judgment of God, all the descendants of Adam return to decay, to the dust of the earth, from which their ancestor was originally made. Their departure to nonexistence completes the circle of being with the same beginning and end: the start and finish are closed for every person living in this century - on a state of nonexistence.

89:5   For in thy sight a thousand years, as yesterday, when he passed, and [as] a guard in the night.
And in this vanity of human vegetation for God, millennia pass, as one past day for a man; they are so insignificant in time for the eternal God, as one day - for the view of human life.
   (This text should not be used as a Bible basis for attempts to consider the chronology of prophetic dates; here the incommensurability of time is simply compared from the point of view of God and man).

89:6   You [like] by a flood carry them away; they are [like] a dream, like grass, which grows in the morning, blossoms and turns green in the morning, cuts off and dries in the evening;
A person is “demolished” from life as easily as if he washes off a wave from a deck.
   And the human age does not weigh anything: it is similar to the age of one-day grass. In the morning, she manages to grow, turn green and even breed. But briefly the time of her joy on earth: in the evening the grass dries up and its life is cut.

89:7 for we disappear from your wrath and from your fury we are in confusion.
Why such a sad picture? Because human iniquities hinder the ability to live forever. God cannot allow a sinning person to live forever in His creation. Moses understands that it is not God who is guilty of the short-dayness of man, but the man himself living. The anger of God and His desire to “wash away” a person from the earth's deck is a natural reaction to the behavior of a person who strives to destroy what God does.

89:8   Thou hast laid our iniquities before Thee, and our secret before the light of thy face.
God has the opportunity to expose human iniquities before Him, manifest and secret, and on the basis of them to come to the conclusion that it is impossible to allow people to live forever until He has something to lay out before Him.

89:9 All our days have passed in your wrath; we lose our summers like a sound.
Moses understands that there is something for God to be angry with for a man, therefore a short human age passes without profit, God has nothing to rejoice at, just some grief for Him from the picture of being a sinful man on earth. Therefore, a person loses his summers rapidly, and they pass before his eyes like a sound: almost instantly, even if you look with human eyes, not like heavenly time.

89:10   The days of our years are seventy years, and with a greater fortress - eighty years; and their best time is work and illness, for they pass quickly, and we fly.
Moses knows what he is talking about: the maximum that a person can “squeeze” out of life is an average of 80 years, but over these 80 years a person often has nothing to remember: life runs by and is so fast that nothing but illness and labor manages to be deposited in the human memory, he has such a vivid impression of illness with the need to work all his life, that everything else, if it falls out in moments of joy, then fades and is forgotten against the background of lifelong exhaustion. This is the prose of this happy life.

   We are flying  is a metaphor for understanding the transience of life: we don’t follow it, but fly so fast that we don’t have time to notice anything, as old age comes

89:11   Who knows the strength of your wrath, and your fury in proportion to your fear? No one can know the power of God's wrath, on which he stops and whether he stops at all; no one knows when exactly our life will end, giving way to the wrath of God upon us. (Moses so figuratively describes the essence of man’s departure from this world, for if God had not been angry with man for his iniquity, there would have been no leaving for him forever).

89:12   Teach us to count our days so that we can gain a wise heart.
Therefore, Moses asks God to teach a person how to use this short time for life so as not to squander it uselessly, but to devote it to the acquisition of a wise heart, obedient to God. For God will not be angry with the wise in heart, and therefore the years of life will be added to the wise. And Moses knows about it.

89:13,14   Turn, Lord! How long? Have mercy on Thy servants.
   14 It is early to fill us with Thy mercy, and we will rejoice and have fun all our days.
Moses asks God to saturate with His mercy early - not to wait for the time when a person in the absolute ceases to sin, but as if in advance he asks for pity, to have mercy on human weakness, out of pity, and not according to his deserts. For if, in justice, human affairs are resolved according to merit, and not out of mercy and not out of pity, then it makes no sense to live at all, so a person does not deserve God's favor. But if God will regret the weakness of the sick and weaken His anger, then there is still a chance for a person to live and have time to rejoice at least a little in the few days of his life before God.

89:15 We exulted us in the days [in which] You struck us, in the summers [in which] we saw disaster.
Moses asks to give at least some relief in life, so that not all 80 years in a state of bending over to live the hardships of life, but also have time to feel the joy of the heart from the fact that God favors His people.

89:16,17   May Thy work be shown on Thy servants, and Thy glory be on their sons;
   17 And may the favor of the Lord our God be upon us, and in our work of our hands come unto us, in our work of our hands come.
Moses asks to show His work on His sons and His servants, so that at least they themselves can understand that they are His servants and His sons.
   What can God's work be manifested in the sons and slaves of God? The fact that their sorrows will be replaced by success in all human affairs glorifying God.

As you can see, the prayer of Moses to God was not a request for solving personal problems, but was a reflection on the great things of God, a search for the causes of the plight of the earth for man, a search for possible solutions, at least in easing the strong pressure of circumstances on more or less tolerant (he is not he talked about getting rid of problems, because he understood that they were all well-deserved), he asked for help for all of God's people, and for himself personally - not a word in this prayer of Moses.

This conversation with God, Moses did not turn into a consumer-economic monologue about personal needs. But he was thinking about what can be done in this life to glorify God, to keep within the 80 years allotted by God to those who live on earth in this wicked century.

It is not by chance that Moses was called the shortest man on earth, who is obedient to God in everything and who cares not about his spiritual problems, but about the glorification of the Creator.

1 Prayer of Moses, the man of God.

2 Lord! You are our refuge in the clan and clan.

3 Before the mountains were born, and you formed the earth and the universe, and from age to century you are God.

4 You return a person to corruption and say: “Come back, sons of men!”

5 For before your eyes one thousand years, as yesterday, when he passed, and as  guard in the night.

6 you as  you take them away by flood; they are - as  a dream, like grass that grows in the morning, blossoms and turns green in the morning, cuts off and dries in the evening;

7 For we disappear from your wrath, and from your fury we are in confusion.

8 Thou hast laid our iniquities before Thee, and our secret before the light of thy face.

9 All our days have passed in your wrath; we lose our summers like a sound.

10 Days of our years - seventy years, and with a greater fortress - eighty years; and their best time is work and illness, for they pass quickly, and we fly.

11 Who knows the strength of your wrath, and your fury according to your fear?

12 Teach us how to number our days so that we can gain a wise heart.

13 Turn, Lord! How long? Have mercy on Thy servants.

14 It is early to fill us with Thy mercy, and we will rejoice and have fun all our days.

15 We have exulted in days in which  You hit us over the summers in which  we saw a disaster.

16 Let Thy work be shown on Thy servants and Thy glory on their sons;

17 And may the favor of the Lord our God be upon us, and in our work of our hands come unto us, in our work of our hands come.

IV. BOOK 4 (PSALM 89 - 105)

Psalm 89: Funeral ringing

Let me use the power of imagination to explain this psalm to you. The action takes place in the Sinai desert. Years have passed since the scouts returned to Kadez Varni with their poor record. The people continue to roam the desert, not coming anywhere. This is a futile move.

Every morning a messenger arrives in the tent of Moses with fresh news about the dead. This is news about deaths, deaths, deaths and deaths again. The most common news is obituaries, and the desert seems like an ever-increasing cemetery. Every time people are removed from the camp, fresh graves are left behind.

On that day, Moses, the man of God, felt that his strength was exhausted. Exhausted from grief over the growing number of dead, he returned to his tent, prostrated himself on the ground and poured out his soul in prayer to God.

89:1, 2   First, in the midst of transience and transience, he finds solace in the eternity of the Lord. Everything else leaves and disappears, but God is unchangeable, He is the home and refuge for

Of his people. From eternity to eternity, He is God, "infinite, eternal and unchanging in His being, wisdom, power, holiness, justice, goodness and truth."

89:3, 4 The prematureness of God is sharply contrasted with the brevity of human life. It seems that God is constantly issuing a decree: "Return to dust!" - And the endless line of people is constantly moving to the grave. For the One who is eternal, the initial duration of human life - about a thousand years - is no more than yesterday or a guard in the night.

89:5, 6   Even to Moses, human life seems to be short-lived, like a dream. You sleep, you dream, you wake up and you don’t realize that time flies. In other words, life as grass is fresh and green in the morning, but withered and withered in the evening. Spurgeon said she was "sown, grown, sifted, threshed, and she is no more."

89:7-10   Death is the result of the fall, and Moses realizes that what is happening in the wilderness happens by the will of God. All warriors who were over twenty years old at the time of exodus from Egypt will die and will not see Canaan. The sound of the funeral bell is a sign of God's displeasure with His people, who sided with unbelieving scouts and did not go to Canaan, as Joshua and Halev called for. Their iniquities and secret sins are known to Him; they constantly grieve and annoy Him. As a result, the Israelites live under the shadow of the dark cloud of His wrath; the stormy waters of His wrath fall upon them. Some live the time allotted to them - seventy years, and some eighty. But even so, their life was hard. One disease followed another. The slightest labor was hard for them. And soon their hearts stopped, and they left this world.

89:11, 12   The man of God fears God's wrath and rage. Who, he asks, can worship Him enough, thinking of the vastness of His anger? The thought of him makes us appreciate every day of our lives and always obey Him, so that it will bring eternal benefit.

89:13, 14   Moses prays that the Lord would turn to His people with mercy. Will His anger burn forever? Will He not be merciful and satiate them early with His mercy, so that they may live the remaining days calmly and happily?

89:15, 16   Then Moses prays that Israel will have many years of joy ahead - and there will be no less than the years of distress that they saw. They have already seen how His power was manifested in the affairs of the court; now he asks the Lord to show the other side of His character and do the work of grace.

89:17   Finally, the intercessor asks the Lord to look favorably on His chosen people on earth and to make all his affairs fruitful: "in our hands, make haste for us."

Traditionally, Psalm 89 is often read at a Christian funeral. And it is no coincidence, because it reminds us of the brevity of life and the fact that there is no need to waste time in vain. But this psalm lacks the confidence and peace that believers have gained in the New Testament era. Christ brought us "life and immortality through the Good News." We know that death is gain for us; she will allow us to free ourselves from the body and be at home with the Lord. Therefore, the gloomy mood of Psalm 89 is supplanted by the joyful and triumphant hope of the believer in Christ. Death lost its sting, the grave was defeated. The believer can sing:

Death is defeated! Say it joyfully, be full of faith;

Where is the victory that the grave boasted about?

Jesus is alive! Your gates will no longer be joyless;

Jesus lives, He is powerful and powerful, He saves us.

This psalm belongs to Moses, the famous leader and legislator of the Jewish people, as can be seen from the addition of the epithet “man of God” to this name, mainly from the very ancient times mastered precisely by Moses (see Deuteronomy 33: 1; Nav. 14: 6; Dan. 9 and others). In this psalm, Moses, confessing at first the extraordinary greatness of God, further depicts the insignificance and sinfulness of man before Him, speaks of the deserved disasters experienced by the Jews and prays to God to be merciful to them. From the content of the psalm it can be concluded that it was written at the end of Moses' life, after forty years of wandering, before the Jews entered Palestine, when they had already been punished by God for their disbelief in Him.

You, Lord, are eternal and unchanging: You existed before the formation of mountains; generations of people are replaced, thousands of years before you, as one day, but you are one and the same (1-6). We disappear from Your anger for our sins: our life has been shortened (7–11). Teach us, Lord, wisdom, be merciful, and pour Your favor on us (12–17).

Ps. 89: 2. Lord You are our refuge in the clan and clan.

“Refuge to the clan and clan” - the Lord, since the election of Abraham, has always been favorable to the Jews, and since God alone is eternal, lasting and permanent protection can be found only in Him.

Ps. 89: 4. You return a person to decay and say: “Come back, sons of men!”

Man before Him is complete insignificance. The Lord “returns man to decay” - according to the law of God, a man with death returns again to that land from which he was taken.

Ps. 89: 5. For before your eyes a thousand years, like yesterday, when he passed, and as  guard in the night.

Ps. 89: 6. You as  you take them away by flood; they are - as a dream, like grass that grows in the morning, blossoms and turns green in the morning, cuts off and dries in the evening;

The Lord is eternal, before Him for a thousand years, like yesterday, that is, without a trace, and therefore an imperceptibly disappeared moment; as a “guard at night” (night guard), divided into three parts (shifts), which for a sleeping person pass completely unnoticed. The years of human life are therefore null and void before the eternity of God; human life can be compared to grass, which appears in the morning and dries in the evening. Human generations are destroyed, they are carried away as if from a flood.

Ps. 89: 7. for we disappear from your wrath and from your fury we are in confusion.

Ps. 89: 8. Thou hast laid our iniquities before Thee, and our secret before the light of thy face.

Ps. 89: 9. All our days have passed in your wrath; we lose our summers like a sound.

Ps. 89: 10. The days of our years are seventy years, and with a greater fortress - eighty years; and their best time is work and illness, for they pass quickly, and we fly.

On behalf of the people, Moses confesses before God the sinfulness and worthiness of the calamities and deprivations sent to him. The people perished from divine wrath (probably, of course, here the death of the Jews during the forty years of wandering in the desert); because the Lord knows how all their actions (“our iniquities are before you”), so even their thoughts and feelings (“our secret before the light of your face” - our life is clear, open before you). The consequence of the sins of the Jews and the punishment for them from God was poverty, the fragility of their external well-being and a reduction in life expectancy. Their life is poorer and shorter; it has become as short-lived in comparison with the life of previous generations as a short sound. Life expectancy is now determined by 70 years, up to 80 survives a stronger one. But even this, the final time of human life, which should be the best time, since here a person should enjoy calmly the fruits of his previous working life, however, is characterized by complete weakness, helplessness and disease (“work and illness”).

Ps. 89: 11. Who knows the strength of your wrath, and your fury in proportion to your fear?

Ps. 89: 12. Teach us to count our days so that we can gain a wise heart.

The Jewish people aroused Divine wrath earlier in their behavior, and if it is not repaired even now, “who knows the strength of Your wrath and Your fury as Your fear is?” Who can know what else Your Wrath will manifest itself over him? Who can predict and recount types of disasters in advance? To avoid possible disasters in the future, Moses prays to God to teach "to count the days" - to cherish the days of life for gaining piety and strengthening in wise and worthy following His commandments.

Ps. 89:13. Turn, Lord! How long? Have mercy on Thy servants.

Ps. 89:14. Sooner fill us with Thy mercy, and we will rejoice and have fun all our days.

Ps. 89:15. Glorified us in days in which  You hit us over the summers in which  we saw a disaster.

Now Moses is praying to God to hear the prayer of the people for mercy, so that the Lord will fill their subsequent life with his blessing in return for the calamities that they have experienced so far.

In worship this psalm is used at the 1st hour. Just as the entry into Palestine was the beginning of a new life for the Jews, so the sunrise begins a new day in the life of a person: just as Moses prayed for the weak Jews before God, so in the Orthodox service the Church prays God with his words for the well-being of the believer in the coming day, recognizing the weakness his strength in the dispensation of salvation.

  PSALTER, Psalm 89 Prayer of Moses, the man of God.

Lord You are our refuge in the clan and clan. Before the mountains were born, and You formed the earth and the universe, and from century to century you are God. You return man to decay and say: come back, sons of man! For in thy sight a thousand years, as yesterday, when he passed, and as a guard in the night. You are blowing them away; they are like a dream, like grass, which grows in the morning, blossoms and turns green in the morning, cuts off and dries in the evening; for we disappear from your wrath and from your fury we are in confusion. Thou hast laid our iniquities before Thee, and our secret before the light of thy face. All our days have passed in your wrath; we lose our summers like a sound. The days of our years are seventy years, and with a greater fortress - eighty years; and their best time is work and illness, for they pass quickly, and we fly. Who knows the strength of your wrath, and your fury in proportion to your fear? Teach us to count our days so that we can gain a wise heart. Turn, Lord! How long? Have mercy on Thy servants. Sooner fill us with Thy mercy, and we will rejoice and have fun all our days. Glorified us for the days in which You hit us, for the summers in which we saw disaster. May Thy work be shown on Thy servants, and Thy glory be on their sons; and may the grace of the Lord our God be upon us, and, in the work of our hands, come unto us, in the work of our hands come.

  PSALTER, Psalm 89.

Lord, the refuge was with us in the gens and gens. Before, even the mountains could not exist and create the earth and the universe, and from century to century you are. Do not turn a person into humility, and advertise; turn, son of mankind. Like a thousand years before thy purpose, Lord, like yesterday, just past the idea, and a night watch. The annihilation of their summers will be; morning, as the grass goes by, morning flourishes and passes away; for the evening it will fall away, become hardened and will die; as with your anger that has vanished, and with your fury you have become smitten. If our iniquity has laid before you, our age is in the enlightenment of your face. For all our days are scanty, and with your wrath disappearing; in the summer, like a spider web, I will study; all of our days are seventy years old, and yet we have the strength, seventy years, and their labor and disease have multiplied; as though gentleness is upon us, and we will be punished. Who knows the power of your wrath, and out of your fear your fury of honor? Thy right hand say so, and bound in heart in wisdom. Turn, Lord, how long? and be implored to be thy servant. Filled in the morning of thy mercy, Lord, and rejoiced and rejoiced; In all our days, we rejoice, for the days, in gentleness we humbled us, summers, in evil clowns we are evil. And look upon your servants and your deeds, and instruct their sons. And wake the grace of the Lord our God upon us, and correct the works of our hands on us, and correct the work of our hands.