Psalms

¹ A Prayer of Moses, the man of God. Lord, You have been our dwelling place from generation to generation.

² Or You brought forth the earth and the world, Even from everlasting to everlasting, You are God.

³ And say, “Return, O sons of men.”

⁴ Are like yesterday when it passes by, Or as a watch in the night.

⁵ In the morning they are like grass which sprouts anew.

⁶ Toward evening it withers away and dries up.

⁷ And by Your wrath we have been dismayed.

⁸ Our secret sins in the light of Your presence.

⁹ We have finished our years like a sigh.

¹⁰ Or if due to might, eighty years, Yet their pride is but labor and wickedness; For soon it is gone and we fly away.

¹¹ And Your fury, according to the fear that is due You?

¹² That we may present to You a heart of wisdom.

¹³ And be sorry for Your slaves.

¹⁴ That we may sing for joy and be glad all our days.

¹⁵ And the years we have seen evil.

¹⁶ And Your majesty to their sons.

¹⁷ And establish for us the work of our hands; Establish the work of our hands.