¹ Lord, you have been our dwelling place in all generations. ² Before the mountains were brought forward, or ever you had formed the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting, you are God. ³ You turn man to destruction; and say, Return, you children of men. ⁴ For a thousand years in your sight are but as yesterday when it is past, and as a watch in the night. ⁵ you carries them away as with a flood they are as a sleep: in the morning they are like grass which grows up. ⁶ In the morning it flourishes, and grows up; in the evening it is cut down, and withers. ⁷ For we are consumed by your anger, and by your wrath are we troubled. ⁸ You have set our iniquities before you, our secret sins in the light of your countenance. ⁹ For all our days are passed away in your wrath: we spend our years as a tale [that is told]. ¹⁰ The days of our years are sixty years and ten; and if by reason of strength they be eighty years, yet is their strength labour and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away. ¹¹ Who know the power of your anger? even according to your fear, so is your wrath. ¹² So teach us to number our days, that we may apply our hearts to wisdom. ¹³ Return, O LORD, how long? and let it repent you concerning your servants. ¹⁴ O satisfy us early with your mercy that we may rejoice and be glad all our days. ¹⁵ Make us glad according to the days in which you have afflicted us, and the years in which we have seen evil. ¹⁶ Let your work appear to your servants, and your glory to their children. ¹⁷ And let the beauty of the LORD our God be on us: and establish you the work of our hands on us; yes, the work of our hands establish you it.