1 Lord, you have been a dwelling for us in generation after generation.
2 Before the mountains were brought forth, before you gave birth to the earth and the world, from eternity to eternity you are God.
3 You turn mortal man back to dust, and you say, "Return, you sons of men."
4 For a thousand years in your eyes are as yesterday once it has gone by, and as a watch in the night.
5 You flood them away; they are a sleep; in the morning they are like grass that sprouts.
6 In the morning it blooms and sprouts; at evening it is cut down and withers.
7 For we are finished by your anger, and by your fury we are dismayed.
8 You have placed our iniquities in front of you, our hidden sins in the light of your presence.
9 For all our days decline in your wrath; we finish our years like a murmur.
10 The days of our years, in them are seventy years, or with strength eighty years; yet their boast is labor and sorrow, for it passes quickly, and we fly off.
11 Who knows the strength of your anger, and your wrath as the fear of you deserves?
12 Teach us, then, to count our days, so that we may bring in a heart of wisdom.
13 Turn back, O LORD! How long? Relent concerning your servants.
14 Fill us in the morning with your steadfast love, so that we may shout for joy and rejoice all our days.
15 Gladden us according to the days you have afflicted us, the years we have seen trouble.
16 May your deeds appear to your servants, and your majesty upon their sons.
17 And may the beauty of the Lord our God rest on us; make firm for us the work of our hands; yes, the work of our hands, make it firm.