2. Before the mountains were brought forth,or You had formed the earth and the world,even from everlasting to everlasting You are God.
3. You return man to the dustand say, “Return, you children of men.”
4. For a thousand years in Your sightare but as yesterday when it is past,or as a night watch in the night time.
5. You carry them away as with a flood;they are as a dream, like renewed grass in the morning:
6. In the morning it flourishes and grows up;in the evening it fades and withers.
7. For we are consumed by Your anger,and by Your wrath we are terrified.
8. You have set our iniquities before You,even our secret sins in the light of Your presence.
9. For all our days pass away in your wrath;we end our years with a groan.
10. The years of our life are seventy,and if by reason of strength eighty;yet their length is toil and sorrow,for they soon end, and we fly away.
11. Who knows the power of Your anger?Or Your wrath according to Your fear?
12. So teach us to number our days,that we may apply our hearts to wisdom.