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]

⁷ “But now, Lord, what do I look for?
    My hope is in you.^(A)
8 Save me^(B) from all my transgressions;^(C)
    do not make me the scorn^(D) of fools.

¹⁰     and those the Lord has rescued^(A) will return.
They will enter Zion with singing;^(B)
    everlasting joy^(C) will crown their heads.
Gladness^(D) and joy will overtake them,
    and sorrow and sighing will flee away.^(E)

²⁰ “Never again will there be in it
    an infant^(H) who lives but a few days,
    or an old man who does not live out his years;^(I)
the one who dies at a hundred
    will be thought a mere child;
the one who fails to reach^[a] a hundred
    will be considered accursed.
²¹ They will build houses^(J) and dwell in them;
    they will plant vineyards and eat their fruit.^(K)
22 No longer will they build houses and others live in them,^(L)
    or plant and others eat.
For as the days of a tree,^(M)
    so will be the days^(N) of my people;
my chosen^(O) ones will long enjoy
    the work of their hands.
²³ They will not labor in vain,^(P)
    nor will they bear children doomed to misfortune;^(Q)
for they will be a people blessed^(R) by the Lord,
    they and their descendants^(S) with them.
²⁴ Before they call^(T) I will answer;^(U)
    while they are still speaking^(V) I will hear.
²⁵ The wolf and the lamb^(W) will feed together,
    and the lion will eat straw like the ox,^(X)
    and dust will be the serpent’s^(Y) food.
They will neither harm nor destroy
    on all my holy mountain,”^(Z)
says the Lord.

Sing to the Lord a new song,^(B)
    his praise in the assembly^(C) of his faithful people.

² Let Israel rejoice^(D) in their Maker;^(E)
    let the people of Zion be glad in their King.^(F)
3 Let them praise his name with dancing^(G)
    and make music to him with timbrel and harp.^(H)
4 For the Lord takes delight^(I) in his people;
    he crowns the humble with victory.^(J)
5 Let his faithful people rejoice^(K) in this honor
    and sing for joy on their beds.^(L)

⁶ May the praise of God be in their mouths^(M)
    and a double-edged^(N) sword in their hands,^(O)
7 to inflict vengeance^(P) on the nations
    and punishment^(Q) on the peoples,
⁸ to bind their kings with fetters,^(R)
    their nobles with shackles of iron,^(S)
9 to carry out the sentence written against them—^(T)
    this is the glory of all his faithful people.^(U)

Praise the Lord.

¹⁴ In embroidered garments^(A) she is led to the king;^(B)
    her virgin companions^(C) follow her—
    those brought to be with her.
¹⁵ Led in with joy and gladness,^(D)
    they enter the palace of the king.