³ You turn people back to dust,
    saying, “Return to dust, you mortals.”^(E)
4 A thousand years in your sight
    are like a day that has just gone by,
    or like a watch in the night.^(F)
5 Yet you sweep people away^(G) in the sleep of death—
    they are like the new grass of the morning:
⁶ In the morning it springs up new,
    but by evening it is dry and withered.^(H)

⁷ We are consumed by your anger
    and terrified by your indignation.
⁸ You have set our iniquities before you,
    our secret sins^(I) in the light of your presence.^(J)
9 All our days pass away under your wrath;
    we finish our years with a moan.^(K)
10 Our days may come to seventy years,^(L)
    or eighty,^(M) if our strength endures;
yet the best of them are but trouble and sorrow,^(N)
    for they quickly pass, and we fly away.^(O)
11 If only we knew the power of your anger!
    Your wrath^(P) is as great as the fear that is your due.^(Q)
12 Teach us to number our days,^(R)
    that we may gain a heart of wisdom.^(S)

¹³ Relent, Lord! How long^(T) will it be?
    Have compassion on your servants.^(U)
14 Satisfy^(V) us in the morning with your unfailing love,^(W)
    that we may sing for joy^(X) and be glad all our days.^(Y)
15 Make us glad for as many days as you have afflicted us,
    for as many years as we have seen trouble.
¹⁶ May your deeds be shown to your servants,
    your splendor to their children.^(Z)

¹⁷ May the favor^[a] of the Lord our God rest on us;
    establish the work of our hands for us—
    yes, establish the work of our hands.^(AA)

²⁴ Therefore the Lord, the Lord Almighty,
    the Mighty One^(A) of Israel, declares:
“Ah! I will vent my wrath on my foes
    and avenge^(B) myself on my enemies.^(C)
25 I will turn my hand against you;^[a](D)
    I will thoroughly purge^(E) away your dross^(F)
    and remove all your impurities.^(G)
26 I will restore your leaders as in days of old,^(H)
    your rulers as at the beginning.
Afterward you will be called^(I)
    the City of Righteousness,^(J)
    the Faithful City.^(K)”

²⁷ Zion will be delivered with justice,
    her penitent^(L) ones with righteousness.^(M)
28 But rebels and sinners^(N) will both be broken,
    and those who forsake^(O) the Lord will perish.^(P)

²⁹ “You will be ashamed^(Q) because of the sacred oaks^(R)
    in which you have delighted;
you will be disgraced because of the gardens^(S)
    that you have chosen.
³⁰ You will be like an oak with fading leaves,^(T)
    like a garden without water.
³¹ The mighty man will become tinder
    and his work a spark;
both will burn together,
    with no one to quench the fire.^(U)”