| 1 | Lord, thou hast been our dwelling place in all generations. |
| 2 | Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever thou hadst formed the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting, thou {art} God. |
| 3 | Thou turnest man to destruction; and sayest, Return, ye children of men. |
| 4 | For a thousand years in thy sight {are but} as yesterday when it is past, and {as} a watch in the night. |
| 5 | Thou carriest them away as with a flood; they are {as} a sleep: in the morning {they are} like grass {which} groweth up. |
| 6 | In the morning it flourisheth, and groweth up; in the evening it is cut down, and withereth. |
| 7 | For we are consumed by thine anger, and by thy wrath are we troubled. |
| 8 | Thou hast set our iniquities before thee, our secret {sins} in the light of thy countenance. |
| 9 | For all our days are passed away in thy wrath: we spend our years as a tale {that is told}. |
| 10 | The days of our years {are} threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength {they be} fourscore years, yet {is} their strength labour and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away. |
| 11 | Who knoweth the power of thine anger? even according to thy fear, {so is} thy wrath. |
| 12 | So teach {us} to number our days, that we may apply {our} hearts unto wisdom. |
| 13 | Return, O Lord, how long? and let it repent thee concerning thy servants. |
| 14 | O satisfy us early with thy mercy; that we may rejoice and be glad all our days. |
| 15 | Make us glad according to the days {wherein} thou hast afflicted us, {and} the years {wherein} we have seen evil. |
| 16 | Let thy work appear unto thy servants, and thy glory unto their children. |
| 17 | And let the beauty of the Lord our God be upon us: and establish thou the work of our hands upon us; yea, the work of our hands establish thou it. |