Remember then that my life is breath, and my eye shall not yet again see good.

You have shortened the days of his throne; You have poured shame upon him. Pause.

Remember what my being is; for have You created all the sons of men in vain?

My days have declined like a shadow; and I am withered like grass.

He answered him in the way of His strength; tell me the fewness of my days.

Do not take me away in the midst of my days; Your years [are] through all generations.

The daughter of Zion shall be deserted as a tent in a vineyard, and as a storehouse of fruits in a garden of cucumbers, as a besieged city.

It shall never be inhabited, neither shall any enter into it for many generations; neither shall the Arabians pass through it; nor shall shepherds at all rest in it.

And my life is lighter than a word, and has perished in vain hope.

But my life is swifter than a post: [my days] have fled away, and they knew it not.

Or again, is there a trace of [their] path [left] by ships? Or is there one of the flying eagle as it seeks its prey?

Or he falls like a flower that has bloomed, and he departs like a shadow, and cannot continue.

[you] who do not know [what will] happen tomorrow. For what is your life? For it will be a vapor that appears for a little [time], but then also disappears.

So have I also endured months of vanity, and nights of pain have been appointed me.

And my body is covered with loathsome worms; and I waste away, scraping off clods of dust from my eruption.

I perish, carried away by the wind, and I seek for burial, and obtain it not.

But I said in my extreme fear, I am cast out from the sight of Your eyes; therefore You listened, O Lord, to the voice of my supplication when I cried to You.

For princes sat and spoke against me; but Your servant was meditating on Your statutes.