1. Lord, thou hast been our dwelling-placein generations all.
2. Before thou ever hadst brought forththe mountains great or small;Ere ever thou hadst form'd the earth,and all the world abroad;Ev'n thou from everlasting artto everlasting God.
3. Thou dost unto destructionman that is mortal turn;And unto them thou say'st, Again,ye sons of men, return.
4. Because a thousand years appearno more before thy sightThan yesterday, when it is past,or than a watch by night.
5. As with an overflowing floodthou carry'st them away:They like a sleep are, like the grassthat grows at morn are they.
6. At morn it flourishes and grows,cut down at ev'n doth fade.