| 1 Lord, you have been our refuge through all generations. | |
| 2 Before the mountains were formed, before you made the earth and the world, from eternity to eternity – you are God. | |
| 3 You turn humans back to dust, saying, “Return, O mortals!” | |
| 4 A thousand years in your sight are like a day that has passed, or like a watch in the night. | |
| 5 You sow them in their time, at dawn they peep out. | |
| 6 In the morning they blossom, but the flower fades and withers in the evening. | |
| 7 Your fury consumes us like fire, and we are helpless before your anger. | |
| 8 Our evils lie before you who scrutinize our hidden sins. | |
| 9 Our days pass away in your wrath; our years are gone in no time. | |
| 10 Seventy years to our life or eighty if we are strong, yet most of them are sorrow and trouble; speeding by, they sweep us along. | |
| 11 Who knows the extent of your anger? Who has seen the end of your wrath? | |
| 12 So make us know the shortness of our life, that we may gain wisdom of heart. | |
| 13 How long will you be angry, O Lord? Have mercy on your servant. | |
| 14 Fill us at daybreak with your goodness, that we may be glad all our days. | |
| 15 Make joy endure as the misery did, and the years in which we were afflicted. | |
| 16 Let your work be seen by your servants and your glorious power by their children. | |
| 17 May the sweetness of the Lord be upon us; may he prosper the work of our hands. | |
