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.