³ You turn man back into dust
And say, “Return, O children of men.”
⁴ For a thousand years in Your sight
Are like yesterday when it passes by,
^[d]Or as a watch in the night.
⁵ You have ^[e]swept them away like a flood, they ^[f]fall asleep;
In the morning they are like grass which ^[g]sprouts anew.
⁶ In the morning it flourishes and ^[h]sprouts anew;
Toward evening it fades and withers away.

⁷ For we have been consumed by Your anger
And by Your wrath we have been ^[i]dismayed.
⁸ You have placed our iniquities before You,
Our secret sins in the light of Your presence.
⁹ For all our days have declined in Your fury;
We have finished our years like a ^[j]sigh.
¹⁰ As for the days of our ^[k]life, ^[l]they contain seventy years,
Or if due to strength, eighty years,
Yet their pride is but labor and sorrow;
For soon it is gone and we fly away.
¹¹ Who ^[m]understands the power of Your anger
And Your fury, according to the fear ^[n]that is due You?
¹² So teach us to number our days,
That we may ^[o]present to You a heart of wisdom.

¹³ Do return, O Lord; how long will it be?
And ^[p]be sorry for Your servants.
¹⁴ O satisfy us in the morning with Your lovingkindness,
That we may sing for joy and be glad all our days.
¹⁵ Make us glad ^[q]according to the days You have afflicted us,
And the years we have seen ^[r]evil.
¹⁶ Let Your work appear to Your servants
And Your majesty ^[s]to their children.
¹⁷ Let the favor of the Lord our God be upon us;
And ^[t]confirm for us the work of our hands;
Yes, ^[u]confirm the work of our hands.