Lord, thou hast been our dwelling place
in all generations [in generation and generation].
² Before the mountains were bought forth,
or ever thou hadst formed the earth and the world,
even from everlasting to everlasting,
thou art God.

³ Thou turnest man to destruction;
and sayest, Return, ye children of men.
⁴ For a thousand years in thy sight
are but as yesterday [as a day of yesterday]
when it is past,
and as a watch in the night.
⁵ Thou carriest them away as with a flood;
they are as a sleep:
in the morning they are like grass which groweth up.
⁶ In the morning it flourisheth,
and groweth up;
in the evening it is cut down,
and withereth.
⁷ For we are consumed by thine anger,
and by thy wrath are we troubled.
⁸ Thou hast set our iniquities before thee,
our secret sins in the light of thy countenance.
⁹ For all our days are passed away in thy wrath:
we spend our years as a tale that is told.
¹⁰ The days of our years are threescore years and ten;
and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years,
yet is their strength labour and sorrow;
for it is soon cut off,
and we fly away.
¹¹ Who knoweth the power of thine anger?
even according to thy fear,
so is thy wrath.

¹² So teach us to number our days,
that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom.
¹³ Return, O LORD,
how long?
and let it repent thee concerning thy servants.
¹⁴ O satisfy us early with thy mercy;
that we may rejoice and be glad all our days.
¹⁵ Make us glad
according to the days wherein thou hast afflicted us,
and the years wherein we have seen evil.
¹⁶ Let thy work appear unto thy servants,
and thy glory unto their children.
¹⁷ And let the beauty of the LORD our God be upon us:
and establish thou the work of our hands upon us;
yea, the work of our hands
establish thou it.

* NOTE: On Opening and Closing Comments in the Psalms.
[Some commentators take the Psalm in Habakkuk 3 to be a standard model for the Psalms.
Habakkuk's Psalm begins with the name of the composer (Habakkuk) and a musical notation ("upon Shigionoth").
It closes with a dedication or a "send to" notice ("To the chief singer on my stringed instruments").
I have arranged similar material, where it is found in the Psalter, in accord with the model in Habakkuk.]