1 Lord, you have been our dwelling-placethroughout all generations.
2 Before the mountains were bornor you brought forth the whole world,from everlasting to everlasting you are God.
3 You turn people back to dust,saying, ‘Return to dust, you mortals.’
4 A thousand years in your sightare like a day that has just gone by,or like a watch in the night.
5 Yet you sweep people away in the sleep of death –they are like the new grass of the morning: