1O Lord, You have been our dwelling place from generation to generation. 2Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever You had formed the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting, You are the Mighty God. 3You return man to dust, and say, Return, O sons of men. 4For a thousand years in Your sight are like yesterday when it is past, and as a watch in the night. 5You carry them away like a flood; they are like a sleep. In the morning they are like grass which grows up: 6In the morning it blossoms and sprouts; in the evening it is cut down and dries up. 7For we have been consumed by Your anger, and by Your wrath we have been terrified. 8You have set our iniquities before You, our secrets in the light of Your countenance. 9For all our days have turned away in Your wrath; we finish our years with a sigh. 10The days of our years are seventy years; and if by reason of vigor they are eighty years, yet their boast is toil and wickedness; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away. 11Who knows the power of Your anger? For as is the fear of You, so is Your wrath. 12So teach us to number our days, that we may bring about a heart of wisdom. 13Return, O Jehovah! How long? And have compassion on Your servants. 14O satisfy us early with Your mercy, that we may exult and be glad all our days! 15Make us glad according to the days in which we have been afflicted, the years in which we have seen evil. 16Let Your work appear unto Your servants, and Your glory unto their children. 17And let the beauty of Jehovah our God be upon us, and establish the work of our hands upon us; yea, establish the work of our hands.