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You tell us to return to what we were;
    you change us back to dust.
(A)A thousand years to you are like one day;
    they are like yesterday, already gone,
    like a short hour in the night.

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You carry us away like a flood;
    we last no longer than a dream.
We are like weeds that sprout in the morning,
    that grow and burst into bloom,
    then dry up and die in the evening.

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12 Teach us how short our life is,
    so that we may become wise.

13 How much longer will your anger last?
    Have pity, O Lord, on your servants!

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12 Teach us how short our life is,
    so that we may become wise.

13 How much longer will your anger last?
    Have pity, O Lord, on your servants!

Read full chapter

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