³ O Lord, what are humans that you regard them,
    or mortals that you think of them?^(A)
4 They are like a breath;
    their days are like a passing shadow.^(B)

¹² May our sons in their youth
    be like plants full grown,
our daughters like corner pillars,
    cut for the building of a palace.^(A)
13 May our barns be filled
    with produce of every kind;
may our sheep increase by thousands,
    by tens of thousands in our fields,
¹⁴     and may our cattle be heavy with young.
May there be no breach in the walls,^[a] no exile,
    and no cry of distress in our streets.

¹⁵ Happy are the people to whom such blessings fall;
    happy are the people whose God is the Lord.^(B)

“See, I am laying in Zion a stone,
    a cornerstone chosen and precious,
and whoever believes in him will not be put to shame.”^(B)

“The stone that the builders rejected
    has become the very head of the corner,”^(C)

“A stone that makes them stumble
    and a rock that makes them fall.”

¹⁰ Once you were not a people,
    but now you are God’s people;
once you had not received mercy,
    but now you have received mercy.^(F)