Psalm 144:3-5

Contemporary English Version

^3 (A) Why do we humans mean anything
to you, our Lord?
    Why do you care about us?
⁴ We disappear like a breath;
we last no longer
    than a faint shadow.

⁵ Open the heavens like a curtain
    and come down, Lord.
Touch the mountains
    and make them send up smoke.