1. Lord, thou hast been our refuge from generation to generation.
2. 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. Thou dost turn unto man until he is broken and thou saith, Become converted, ye sons of Adam.
4. For a thousand years in thy sight are but as yesterday when it is past and as a watch in the night.
5. 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. In the morning it blossoms and grows up; in the evening it is cut down and withers.
7. For we are consumed by thine anger, and by thy wrath we are troubled.
8. Thou hast set our iniquities before thee, our secret sins in the light of thy countenance.
9. For all our days decline because of thy wrath; we end our years according to the word.
10. 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. Who knows the power of thine anger? that thy wrath is not less than our fear.