⁴ “Lord, ^(C)make me to know my end,
And what is the measure of my days,
That I may know how frail I am.
⁵ Indeed, You have made my days as handbreadths,
And my age is as nothing before You;
Certainly every man at his best state is but ^(D)vapor. Selah
⁶ Surely every man walks about like a shadow;
Surely they ^[b]busy themselves in vain;
He heaps up riches,
And does not know who will gather them.

⁷ “And now, Lord, what do I wait for?
My ^(E)hope is in You.
⁸ Deliver me from all my transgressions;
Do not make me ^(F)the reproach of the foolish.
^9 (G)I was mute, I did not open my mouth,
Because it was ^(H)You who did it.
^10 (I)Remove Your plague from me;
I am consumed by the blow of Your hand.
¹¹ When with rebukes You correct man for iniquity,
You make his beauty ^(J)melt away like a moth;
Surely every man is vapor. Selah

¹² “Hear my prayer, O Lord,
And give ear to my cry;
Do not be silent at my tears;
For I am a stranger with You,
A sojourner, ^(K)as all my fathers were.
^13 (L)Remove Your gaze from me, that I may regain strength,
Before I go away and ^(M)am no more.”

⁵ Come and see the works of God;
He is awesome in His doing toward the sons of men.
^6 (E)He turned the sea into dry land;
^(F)They went through the river on foot.
There we will rejoice in Him.
⁷ He rules by His power forever;
His eyes observe the nations;
Do not let the rebellious exalt themselves. Selah

⁸ Oh, bless our God, you peoples!
And make the voice of His praise to be heard,
⁹ Who keeps our soul among the living,
And does not allow our feet to ^[a]be moved.
¹⁰ For ^(G)You, O God, have tested us;
^(H)You have refined us as silver is refined.
^11 (I)You brought us into the net;
You laid affliction on our backs.
^12 (J)You have caused men to ride over our heads;
^(K)We went through fire and through water;
But You brought us out to ^[b]rich fulfillment.

^13 (L)I will go into Your house with burnt offerings;
^(M)I will pay You my ^[c]vows,
¹⁴ Which my lips have uttered
And my mouth has spoken when I was in trouble.
¹⁵ I will offer You burnt sacrifices of fat animals,
With the sweet aroma of rams;
I will offer bulls with goats. Selah

¹⁶ Come and hear, all you who fear God,
And I will declare what He has done for my soul.
¹⁷ I cried to Him with my mouth,
And He was ^[d]extolled with my tongue.
^18 (N)If I regard iniquity in my heart,
The Lord will not hear.
¹⁹ But certainly God ^(O)has heard me;
He has attended to the voice of my prayer.

²⁰ Blessed be God,
Who has not turned away my prayer,
Nor His mercy from me!

^3 (F)Restore us, O God;
^(G)Cause Your face to shine,
And we shall be saved!

⁴ O Lord God of hosts,
^(H)How long will You be angry
Against the prayer of Your people?
^5 (I)You have fed them with the bread of tears,
And given them tears to drink in great measure.
⁶ You have made us a strife to our neighbors,
And our enemies laugh among themselves.

⁷ Restore us, O God of hosts;
Cause Your face to shine,
And we shall be saved!

⁸ You have brought ^(J)a vine out of Egypt;
^(K)You have cast out the ^[c]nations, and planted it.
⁹ You prepared room for it,
And caused it to take deep root,
And it filled the land.
¹⁰ The hills were covered with its shadow,
And the ^[d]mighty cedars with its ^(L)boughs.
¹¹ She sent out her boughs to ^[e]the Sea,
And her branches to ^[f]the River.

¹² Why have You ^(M)broken down her ^[g]hedges,
So that all who pass by the way pluck her fruit?
¹³ The boar out of the woods uproots it,
And the wild beast of the field devours it.

¹⁴ Return, we beseech You, O God of hosts;
^(N)Look down from heaven and see,
And visit this vine
¹⁵ And the vineyard which Your right hand has planted,
And the branch that You made strong ^(O)for Yourself.
¹⁶ It is burned with fire, it is cut down;
^(P)They perish at the rebuke of Your countenance.
^17 (Q)Let Your hand be upon the man of Your right hand,
Upon the son of man whom You made strong for Yourself.
¹⁸ Then we will not turn back from You;
Revive us, and we will call upon Your name.

¹⁹ Restore us, O Lord God of hosts;
Cause Your face to shine,
And we shall be saved!