1. O Lord, you have been our help in all generations.
2. Before the mountains were born and you brought forth the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting, you are God.
3. You return man to the dust, saying, “Return, O sons of man.”
4. For a thousand years in your eyes are like yesterday when it passes, or like a watch in the night.
5. You sweep them away like a flood. They fall asleep. In the morning they are like grass that sprouts anew.
6. In the morning it blossoms and sprouts anew; by evening it withers and dries up.
7. For we are brought to an end by your anger, and we hasten off by your wrath.
8. You have put our iniquities before you, our hidden sins into the light of your countenance.
9. For all of our days dwindle away in your rage; we complete our years like a sigh.
10. As for the days of our years, within them are seventy years or if by strength eighty years, and their pride is trouble and disaster, for it passes quickly and we fly away.
11. Who knows the strength of your anger, and your rage consistent with the fear due you?