Psalms 89:5-17

⁵Years shall be vanity to them: let the morning pass away as grass.

⁶In the morning let it flower, and pass away: in the evening let it droop, let it be withered and dried up.

⁷For we have perished in your anger, and in your wrath we have been troubled.

⁸You have set our transgressions before you: our age is in the light of your countenance.

⁹For all our days are gone, and we have passed away in your wrath: our years have spun out their tale as a spider.

¹⁰As for the days of our years, in them are seventy years; and if men should be in strength, eighty years: and the greater part of them would be labor and trouble; for weakness overtakes us, and we shall be chastened.

¹¹Who knows the power of your wrath?

¹²and who knows how to number his days because of the fear of your wrath? So manifest your right hand, and those that are instructed in wisdom in the heart.

¹³Return, O Lord, how long? and be entreated concerning your servants.

¹⁴We have been satisfied in the morning with your mercy; and we did exult and rejoice:

¹⁵let us rejoice in all our days, in return for the days wherein you did afflict us, the years wherein we saw evil.

¹⁶And look upon your servants, and upon your works; and guide their children.

¹⁷And let the brightness of the Lord our God be upon us: and do you direct for us the works of our hands.