2Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever thou hadst formed the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting, thou art God.

3Thou turnest man to destruction; and sayest, Return, ye children of men.

4For a thousand years in thy sight are but as yesterday when it is past, and as a watch in the night.

5The span of their life will be as a sleep; in the morning they are like grass which changes.

6In the morning it flourishes and grows up; in the evening it is cut down and withers.

7For we are consumed by thine anger, and by thy wrath are we troubled.

8Thou hast set our iniquities before thee, the sins of our youth in the light of thy countenance.

9For all our days are passed away in thy wrath; we spend our years in emptiness.

10The years of our lives are threescore and ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet most of them are labor and sorrow; for life is soon cut off and we fly away.

11Who knows the power of thine anger and the fear of thy wrath?

12So teach us to number our days that we may apply our hearts to wisdom.

13Return, O LORD. How long? Wouldst thou not comfort thy servants?

14O satisfy us early with thy mercy, that we may rejoice and be glad all our days.

15Make us glad because our wickedness is dead, and the years wherein we have seen affliction.

16Let thy work appear to thy servants, and thy glory to their children.

17And let the beauty of the LORD our God be upon us; for the work of his hands made us, yea, he made us by the work of his hands.