1 L ord, You have been our dwelling place and our refuge in all generations.

2 B efore the mountains were brought forth or ever You had formed and given birth to the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting You are God.

3 Y ou turn man back to dust and corruption, and say, Return, O sons of the earthborn!

4 F or a thousand years in Your sight are but as yesterday when it is past, or as a watch in the night.

5 Y ou carry away as with a flood; they are as a sleep. In the morning they are like grass which grows up—

6 I n the morning it flourishes and springs up; in the evening it is mown down and withers.

7 F or we are consumed by Your anger, and by Your wrath are we troubled, overwhelmed, and frightened away.

8 O ur iniquities, our secret heart and its sins, You have set in the light of Your countenance.

9 F or all our days pass away in Your wrath; we spend our years as a tale that is told.

10 T he days of our years are threescore years and ten (seventy years)—or even, if by reason of strength, fourscore years (eighty years); yet is their pride only labor and sorrow, for it is soon gone, and we fly away.

11 W ho knows the power of Your anger? And Your wrath, who connects it with the reverent and worshipful fear that is due You?

12 S o teach us to number our days, that we may get us a heart of wisdom.

13 T urn, O Lord! How long—? Revoke Your sentence and be compassionate and at ease toward Your servants.

14 O satisfy us with Your mercy and loving-kindness in the morning, that we may rejoice and be glad all our days.

15 M ake us glad in proportion to the days in which You have afflicted us and to the years in which we have suffered evil.

16 L et Your work be revealed to Your servants, and Your majesty to their children.

17 A nd let the beauty and delightfulness and favor of the Lord our God be upon us; confirm and establish the work of our hands—yes, the work of our hands, confirm and establish it.