May he grant your heart's desire; may he bring all your plans to pass!

"O Lord, help me understand my mortality and the brevity of life! Let me realize how quickly my life will pass!

Turn your angry gaze away from me, so I can be happy before I pass away.

Surely one sees that even wise people die; fools and spiritually insensitive people all pass away and leave their wealth to others.

I will sing a song that imparts wisdom; I will make insightful observations about the past.

He remembered that they were made of flesh, and were like a wind that blows past and does not return.

Why did you break down its walls, so that all who pass by pluck its fruit?

As they pass through the Baca Valley, he provides a spring for them. The rain even covers it with pools of water.

All who pass by have robbed him; he has become an object of disdain to his neighbors.

Yes, throughout all our days we experience your raging fury; the years of our lives pass quickly, like a sigh.

The days of our lives add up to seventy years, or eighty, if one is especially strong. But even one's best years are marred by trouble and oppression. Yes, they pass quickly and we fly away.

Those who pass by will not say, "May you experience the Lord's blessing! We pronounce a blessing on you in the name of the Lord."