⁵ Are your days as the days of man, or your years like his,

⁸ But, my loved ones, keep in mind this one thing, that with the Lord one day is the same as a thousand years, and a thousand years are no more than one day.

²⁶ Truly, God is great, greater than all our knowledge; the number of his years may not be searched out.

² Before the mountains were made, before you had given birth to the earth and the world, before time was, and for ever, you are God.

³ You send man back to his dust; and say, Go back, you children of men.

⁴ For to you a thousand years are no more than yesterday when it is past, and like a watch in the night.

¹² But you, O Lord, are eternal; and your name will never come to an end.

²⁴ I will say, O my God, take me not away before my time; your years go on through all generations:

²⁵ In the past you put the earth on its base, and the heavens are the work of your hands.

²⁶ They will come to an end, but you will still go on; they all will become old like a coat, and like a robe they will be changed:

²⁷ But you are the unchanging One, and your years will have no end.

¹² They will be rolled up like a cloth, even like a robe, and they will be changed: but you are the same and your years will have no end.