We have heard with our ears, O God,
Our fathers have told us
The work You did in their days,
In the days of old.

But You, O God, will bring down the wicked to the pit of destruction;
Men of blood and treachery will not live out half their days.
But I will [boldly and unwaveringly] trust in You.

Therefore He consumed their days like a breath [in emptiness and futility]
And their years in sudden terror.