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2Before the mountains were born
or you brought forth the earth and the world,
from everlasting to everlasting you are God.

3You turn men back to dust,
saying, “Return to dust, O sons of men.”

4For a thousand years in your sight
are like a day that has just gone by,
or like a watch in the night.

5You sweep men away in the sleep of death;
they are like the new grass of the morning—

6though in the morning it springs up new,
by evening it is dry and withered.

7We are consumed by your anger
and terrified by your indignation.

8You have set our iniquities before you,
our secret sins in the light of your presence.

9All our days pass away under your wrath;
we finish our years with a moan.

10The length of our days is seventy years—
or eighty, if we have the strength;
yet their spanOr yet the best of them is but trouble and sorrow,
for they quickly pass, and we fly away.

11Who knows the power of your anger?
For your wrath is as great as the fear that is due you.

12Teach us to number our days aright,
that we may gain a heart of wisdom.

13Relent, O LORD! How long will it be?
Have compassion on your servants.

14Satisfy us in the morning with your unfailing love,
that we may sing for joy and be glad all our days.

15Make us glad for as many days as you have afflicted us,
for as many years as we have seen trouble.

16May your deeds be shown to your servants,
your splendor to their children.

17May the favorOr beauty of the Lord our God rest upon us;
establish the work of our hands for us—
yes, establish the work of our hands.

2I will sayOr He says of the LORD, “He is my refuge and my fortress,
my God, in whom I trust.”

3Surely he will save you from the fowler's snare
and from the deadly pestilence.

6nor the pestilence that stalks in the darkness,
nor the plague that destroys at midday.

7A thousand may fall at your side,
ten thousand at your right hand,
but it will not come near you.

8You will only observe with your eyes
and see the punishment of the wicked.

9If you make the Most High your dwelling—
even the LORD, who is my refuge—

10then no harm will befall you,
no disaster will come near your tent.

11For he will command his angels concerning you
to guard you in all your ways;

12they will lift you up in their hands,
so that you will not strike your foot against a stone.

13You will tread upon the lion and the cobra;
you will trample the great lion and the serpent.

14“Because he loves me,” says the LORD, “I will rescue him;
I will protect him, for he acknowledges my name.

15He will call upon me, and I will answer him;
I will be with him in trouble,
I will deliver him and honor him.

16With long life will I satisfy him
and show him my salvation.”