[1] Lord, You have been our dwelling place in all generations. [2] Before the mountains were brought forth, or You had formed the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting You are God. [3] You return man to the dust and say, "Return, you children of men." [4] For a thousand years in Your sight are but as yesterday when it is past, or as a night watch in the night time. [5] You carry them away as with a flood; they are as a dream, like renewed grass in the morning: [6] In the morning it flourishes and grows up; in the evening it fades and withers. [7] For we are consumed by Your anger, and by Your wrath we are terrified. [8] You have set our iniquities before You, even our secret sins in the light of Your presence. [9] For all our days pass away in your wrath; we end our years with a groan. [10] The years of our life are seventy, and if by reason of strength eighty; yet their length is toil and sorrow, for they soon end, and we fly away. [11] Who knows the power of Your anger? Or Your wrath according to Your fear? [12] So teach us to number our days, that we may apply our hearts to wisdom. [13] Return, O LORD, how long? Have mercy on Your servants. [14] Satisfy us in the early morning with Your mercy, that we may rejoice and be glad all our days. [15] Make us glad according to the days that You have afflicted us, and the years that we have seen evil. [16] Let Your work be displayed to Your servants and Your glory to their children. [17] Let the beauty of the LORD our God be upon us, and establish the work of our hands among us; yes, establish the work of our hands.
