1 Lord, you have been our help,generation after generation.
2 Before the mountains were born,before you birthed the earth and the inhabited world—from forever in the pastto forever in the future, you are God.
3 You return people to dust,saying, "Go back, humans,"
4 because in your perspective a thousand yearsare like yesterday past,like a short period during the night watch.
5 You sweep humans away like a dream,like grass that is renewed in the morning.
6 True, in the morning it thrives, renewed,but come evening it withers, all dried up.