3. You return man to dustand say, “Return, O children of man!”
4. For a thousand years in your sightare but as yesterday when it is past,or as a watch in the night.
5. You sweep them away as with a flood; they are like a dream,like grass that is renewed in the morning:
6. in the morning it flourishes and is renewed;in the evening it fades and withers.
7. For we are brought to an end by your anger;by your wrath we are dismayed.
8. You have set our iniquities before you,our secret sins in the light of your presence.
9. For all our days pass away under your wrath;we bring our years to an end like a sigh.