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