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15 A person’s life is like grass—
    it blossoms like wild flowers,
16 but when the wind blows through it,
    it withers away and no one remembers where it was.
17 Yet the Lord’s gracious love remains
    throughout eternity for those who fear him
        and his righteous acts extend to their children’s children,

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15 The life of mortals is like grass,(A)
    they flourish like a flower(B) of the field;
16 the wind blows(C) over it and it is gone,
    and its place(D) remembers it no more.
17 But from everlasting to everlasting
    the Lord’s love is with those who fear him,
    and his righteousness with their children’s children(E)

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