Blog 12

For today - Warnborough to Uffington; another version of a Psalm

(NB note to Dane - can they be spaced after every 4 lines - I think the last one

lost its formatting in downloading).

1. Lord, you have been our house and home;

the place in which we make our dwelling.

Before you had created the heavens,

beyond the mountains of human telling.

2. You are God, God for ever and ever,

And yet when all's due, you turn us to dust

You command us to turn back and repent

To do you great deeds, you tell us we must.

3. A thousand years to you flash by,

They are, as it were, one watch in the night;

like yesterday, which came and went past

As but a blink in your eye, in your sight.

4. Our years pass you by, for us like a dream,

In the dew of the morning, renewed is the grass.

As the day goes past, as the evening fades,

our yesterdays, as it were, let them pass.

5. But does your wrath overshadow us

The psalmist, in psalm ninety, tells us so.

Our iniquities and our secret sins,

offend you so much, you tell us to go.

6. Our span is only toil and trouble

Our years come to finish, like a sigh

Seventy, or eighty, if we are strong

But the fear of your wrath makes it nigh.

7. Let us count our days and blessings

So as to give wisdom in our heart.

Turn back, O Lord, relent and save us

Have compassion on us, at least in part.

8.In the morning give us your steadfast love,

May we gladly rejoice all our days.

Let us be glad in all our afflictions.

Let our work serve you, in all of our ways.

9. Give glory and power to our children,

Let your favour return on our lands;

O prosper the work that we do,

O prosper the work of our hands.

Amen.