Save and help and rescue, Lord, for godly people cease to be,
For the faithful vanish from among the sons of men.

“Lord, let me know my [life’s] end
And [to appreciate] the extent of my days;
Let me know how frail I am [how transient is my stay here].

Therefore his people return to this place,
And waters of abundance [offered by the irreverent] are [blindly] drunk by them.

For all our days pass away in Your wrath;
We have finished our years like a whispered sigh.

“This is My resting place forever” [says the Lord];
“Here will I dwell, for I have desired it.