You return man to dust and say, “Return, O children of man!” For a thousand years in your sight are but as yesterday when it is past,

or as a watch in the night.

You sweep them away as with a flood;

they are like a dream,

like grass that is renewed in the morning:

in the morning it flourishes and is renewed;

in the evening it fades and withers.

Psalm 90: 3-6.