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

¶ Lord, thou hast been our refuge from generation to generation.

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

Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever thou hadst formed the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting, thou art God.

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

Thou dost turn unto man until he is broken and thou saith, Become converted, ye sons of Adam.

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

For a thousand years in thy sight are but as yesterday when it is past and as a watch in the night.

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

Thou dost cause them to pass by as the waters of a river; they are as a dream, which is strong in the morning like grass.

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

In the morning it blossoms and grows up; in the evening it is cut down and withers.

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

¶ For we are consumed by thine anger, and by thy wrath we are troubled.

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

Thou hast set our iniquities before thee, our secret sins in the light of thy countenance.

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

For all our days decline because of thy wrath; we end our years according to the word.

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.

The days of our years are seventy, and of the most valiant eighty years, yet their strength is labour and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away.

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

Who knows the power of thine anger? that thy wrath is not less than our fear.

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

¶ Cause us to learn this that we might number our days, that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom.

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

Return unto us, O LORD, how long? and let it repent thee concerning thy slaves.

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

O satisfy us early with thy mercy, and we shall sing 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.

Make us glad according to the days in which thou hast afflicted us and the years in which we have seen evil.

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

Let thy work appear in thy slaves and thy glory upon their sons.

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.

And let the beauty of the LORD our God be upon us, and set thou aright the work of our hands upon us; yea, set thou aright the work of our hands.