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You return man to dust
    and say, (A)“Return, (B)O children of man!”[a]
For (C)a thousand years in your sight
    are but as (D)yesterday when it is past,
    or as (E)a watch in the night.
You (F)sweep them away as with a flood; they are like (G)a dream,
    like (H)grass that is renewed in the morning:

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  1. Psalm 90:3 Or of Adam

You turn people back to dust,
    saying, “Return to dust, you mortals.”(A)
A thousand years in your sight
    are like a day that has just gone by,
    or like a watch in the night.(B)
Yet you sweep people away(C) in the sleep of death—
    they are like the new grass of the morning:

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