BOOK IV From Everlasting to Everlasting 3 AKJV You turn man to destruction; and say, Return, you children of men. BSB BSB: You return man to dust, saying, “Return, O sons of mortals.”
4 AKJV For a thousand years in your sight are but as yesterday when it is past, and as a watch in the night. BSB BSB: For in Your sight a thousand years are but a day that passes, or a watch of the night.
5 AKJV You carry them away as with a flood; they are as a sleep: in the morning they are like grass which grows up. BSB BSB: You sweep them away in their sleep; they are like the new grass of the morning—
6 AKJV In the morning it flourishes, and grows up; in the evening it is cut down, and wither. BSB BSB: in the morning it springs up new, but by evening it fades and withers.
7 AKJV For we are consumed by your anger, and by your wrath are we troubled. BSB BSB: For we are consumed by Your anger and terrified by Your wrath.
8 AKJV You have set our iniquities before you, our secret sins in the light of your countenance. BSB BSB: You have set our iniquities before You, our secret sins in the light of Your presence.
9 AKJV For all our days are passed away in your wrath: we spend our years as a tale that is told. BSB BSB: For all our days decline in Your fury; we finish our years with a sigh.
10 AKJV The days of our years are three score years and ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labor and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away. BSB BSB: The length of our days is seventy years—or eighty if we are strong—yet their pride is but labor and sorrow, for they quickly pass, and we fly away.
11 AKJV Who knows the power of your anger? even according to your fear, so is your wrath. BSB BSB: Who knows the power of Your anger? Your wrath matches the fear You are due.
12 AKJV So teach us to number our days, that we may apply our hearts to wisdom. BSB BSB: So teach us to number our days, that we may present a heart of wisdom.
13 AKJV Return, O LORD, how long? and let it repent you concerning your servants. BSB BSB: Return, O LORD! How long will it be? Have compassion on Your servants.
14 AKJV O satisfy us early with your mercy; that we may rejoice and be glad all our days. BSB BSB: Satisfy us in the morning with Your loving devotion, that we may sing for joy and be glad all our days.
15 AKJV Make us glad according to the days wherein you have afflicted us, and the years wherein we have seen evil. BSB BSB: Make us glad for as many days as You have afflicted us, for as many years as we have seen evil.
16 AKJV Let your work appear to your servants, and your glory to their children. BSB BSB: May Your work be shown to Your servants, and Your splendor to their children.
17 AKJV And let the beauty of the LORD our God be on us: and establish you the work of our hands on us; yes, the work of our hands establish you it. BSB BSB: May the favor of the Lord our God rest upon us; establish for us the work of our hands—yes, establish the work of our hands!
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