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 thine anger, and in thy wrath we have been troubled.

⁸Thou hast set our transgressions before thee: our age is in the light of thy countenance.

⁹For all our days are gone, and we have passed away in thy 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 labour and trouble; for weakness overtakes us, and we shall be chastened.

¹¹Who knows the power of thy wrath?

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

¹³Return, O Lord, how long? and be intreated concerning thy servants.

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

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

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

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