⁴ “Show me, Lord, my life’s end
    and the number of my days;^(A)
    let me know how fleeting^(B) my life is.^(C)
5 You have made my days^(D) a mere handbreadth;
    the span of my years is as nothing before you.
Everyone is but a breath,^(E)
    even those who seem secure.^[a]

¹¹ My days are like the evening shadow;^(A)
    I wither^(B) away like grass.

¹² But you, Lord, sit enthroned forever;^(C)
    your renown endures^(D) through all generations.^(E)

⁷ The grass withers^(A) and the flowers fall,
    because the breath^(B) of the Lord blows^(C) on them.
    Surely the people are grass.
⁸ The grass withers and the flowers^(D) fall,
    but the word^(E) of our God endures^(F) forever.^(G)”

“All people are like grass,
    and all their glory is like the flowers of the field;
the grass withers and the flowers fall,
²⁵     but the word of the Lord endures forever.”^[a](D)