[1] Lord, you have been our dwelling place in all generations.
[2] Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever you had formed the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting, you are God.
[3] You turn man to destruction; and say, Return, you children of men.
[4] For a thousand years in your sight are but as yesterday when it is past, and as a watch in the night.
[5] You carry them away as with a flood; they are as a sleep: in the morning they are like grass which grows up.
[6] In the morning it flourishes, and grows up; in the evening it is cut down, and wither.
[7] For we are consumed by your anger, and by your wrath are we troubled.
[8] You have set our iniquities before you, our secret sins in the light of your countenance.
[9] For all our days are passed away in your wrath: we spend our years as a tale that is told.
[10] The days of our years are three score years and ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labor and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away.
[11] Who knows the power of your anger? even according to your fear, so is your wrath.
[12] So teach us to number our days, that we may apply our hearts to wisdom.
[13] Return, O LORD, how long? and let it repent you concerning your servants.
[14] O satisfy us early with your mercy; that we may rejoice and be glad all our days.
[15] Make us glad according to the days wherein you have afflicted us, and the years wherein we have seen evil.
[16] Let your work appear to your servants, and your glory to their children.
[17] And let the beauty of the LORD our God be on us: and establish you the work of our hands on us; yes, the work of our hands establish you it.
