1. LORD, you have been our dwelling place in all generations.
2. Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever you had formed the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting, you are God.
3. You turn man to destruction; and say,
4. For a thousand years in your sight are but as yesterday when it is past, and as a watch in the night.
5. You carry them away as with a flood; they are like a sleep: in the morning they are like grass which grows up.
6. In the morning it flourishes, and grows up; in the evening it is cut down, and withers.
7. For we are consumed by your anger, and by your wrath are we troubled.
8. You have set our iniquities before you, our secret sins in the light of your countenance.
9. For all our days are passed away in your wrath: we spend our years as a tale that is told.