BOOK IV From Everlasting to Everlasting 3 WBS Thou turnest man to destruction; and sayest, Return, ye children of men. BSB BSB: You return man to dust, saying, “Return, O sons of mortals.”
4 WBS For a thousand years in thy 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 WBS Thou carriest them away as with a flood; they are as a sleep; in the morning they are like grass which groweth. BSB BSB: You sweep them away in their sleep; they are like the new grass of the morning—
6 WBS In the morning it flourisheth, and groweth; in the evening it is cut down, and withereth. BSB BSB: in the morning it springs up new, but by evening it fades and withers.
7 WBS For we are consumed by thy anger, and by thy wrath are we troubled. BSB BSB: For we are consumed by Your anger and terrified by Your wrath.
8 WBS Thou hast set our iniquities before thee, our secret sins in the light of thy countenance. BSB BSB: You have set our iniquities before You, our secret sins in the light of Your presence.
9 WBS For all our days are passed away in thy 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 WBS The days of our years are seventy years; and if by reason of strength they are eighty 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 WBS Who knoweth the power of thy anger? even according to thy fear, so is thy wrath. BSB BSB: Who knows the power of Your anger? Your wrath matches the fear You are due.
12 WBS 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 WBS Return, O LORD, how long? and repent thou concerning thy servants. BSB BSB: Return, O LORD! How long will it be? Have compassion on Your servants.
14 WBS O satisfy us early with thy 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 WBS Make us glad according to the days in which thou hast afflicted us, and the years in which 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 WBS Let thy work appear to thy servants, and thy glory to their children. BSB BSB: May Your work be shown to Your servants, and Your splendor to their children.
17 WBS And let the beauty of the LORD our God be upon us: and establish thou the work of our hands upon us; yes, the work of our hands establish thou 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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