1 L ord, you have been our dwelling place for all generations.

2 B efore the mountains were born, before you had formed the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting, you are God.

3 Y ou turn man to destruction, saying, “Return, you children of men.”

4 F or a thousand years in your sight are just like yesterday when it is past, like a watch in the night.

5 Y ou sweep them away as they sleep. In the morning they sprout like new grass.

6 I n the morning it sprouts and springs up. By evening, it is withered and dry.

7 F or we are consumed in your anger. We are troubled in your wrath.

8 Y ou have set our iniquities before you, our secret sins in the light of your presence.

9 F or all our days have passed away in your wrath. We bring our years to an end as a sigh.

10 T he days of our years are seventy, or even by reason of strength eighty years; yet their pride is but labor and sorrow, for it passes quickly, and we fly away.

11 W ho knows the power of your anger, your wrath according to the fear that is due to you?

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

13 R elent, Yahweh! How long? Have compassion on your servants!

14 S atisfy us in the morning with your loving kindness, that we may rejoice and be glad all our days.

15 M ake us glad for as many days as you have afflicted us, for as many years as we have seen evil.

16 L et your work appear to your servants; your glory to their children.

17 L et the favor of the Lord our God be on us; establish the work of our hands for us; yes, establish the work of our hands.