[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]The span of their life will be as a sleep; in the morning they are like grass which changes.[6]In the morning it flourishes and grows up; in the evening it is cut down and withers.[7]For we are consumed by thine anger, and by thy wrath are we troubled.[8]Thou hast set our iniquities before thee, the sins of our youth in the light of thy countenance.[9]For all our days are passed away in thy wrath; we spend our years in emptiness.[10]The 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.[11]Who knows the power of thine anger and the fear of thy wrath?[12]So teach us to number our days that we may apply our hearts to wisdom.[13]Return, O LORD. How long? Wouldst thou not comfort thy servants?[14]O satisfy us early with thy mercy, that we may rejoice and be glad all our days.[15]Make us glad because our wickedness is dead, and the years wherein we have seen affliction.[16]Let thy work appear to thy servants, and thy glory to their children.[17]And 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.