³ You turn people back to dust,
    saying, “Return to dust, you mortals.”^(D)
4 A thousand years in your sight
    are like a day that has just gone by,
    or like a watch in the night.^(E)
5 Yet you sweep people away^(F) 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.^(G)

²⁷ But you remain the same,^(A)
    and your years will never end.^(B)

²⁸ The children of your servants^(A) will live in your presence;
    their descendants^(B) will be established before you.”