[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, O children of men.”
[4] For a thousand years in Your sight Are like yesterday when it is past, And like a watch in the night.
[5] You carry them away like a flood; They are like 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 withers.
[7] For we have been consumed by Your anger, And by Your wrath we are terrified.
[8] You have set our iniquities before You, Our secret sins in the light of Your countenance.
[9] For all our days have passed away in Your wrath; We finish our years like a sigh.
[10] The days of our lives are seventy years; And if by reason of strength they are eighty years, Yet their boast is only labor and sorrow; For it is soon cut off, and we fly away.
[11] Who knows the power of Your anger? For as the fear of You, so is Your wrath.
[12] So teach us to number our days, That we may gain a heart of wisdom.
[13] Return, O Lord! How long? And have compassion on Your servants.
[14] Oh, satisfy us early with Your mercy, That we may rejoice and be glad all our days!
[15] Make us glad according to the days in which You have afflicted us, The years in which 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 upon us, And establish the work of our hands for us; Yes, establish the work of our hands.