1. Lord, you have been our help,generation after generation.
2. Before the mountains were born,before you birthed the earth and the inhabited world—from forever in the pastto forever in the future, you are God.
3. You return people to dust,saying, "Go back, humans,"
4. because in your perspective a thousand yearsare like yesterday past,like a short period during the night watch.
5. You sweep humans away like a dream,like grass that is renewed in the morning.
6. True, in the morning it thrives, renewed,but come evening it withers, all dried up.