1. O Lord, you have always been our home.
2. Before you created the hillsor brought the world into being,you were eternally God,and will be God for ever.
3. You tell us to return to what we were;you change us back to dust.
4. A thousand years to you are like one day;they are like yesterday, already gone,like a short hour in the night.
5. You carry us away like a flood;we last no longer than a dream.We are like weeds that sprout in the morning,
6. that grow and burst into bloom,then dry up and die in the evening.
7. We are destroyed by your anger;we are terrified by your fury.
8. You place our sins before you,our secret sins where you can see them.
9. Our life is cut short by your anger;it fades away like a whisper.