18TH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME (YEAR C)

PSALM 89

Response:
O Lord, you have been our refuge from one generation to the next.

Verse 1:
You turn men back into dust
and say: ‘Go back, sons of men.’
To your eyes a thousand years are like yesterday,
come and gone, no more than a watch in the night.

Verse 2:
You sweep men away like a dream,
like grass which springs up in the morning.
In the morning it springs up and flowers;
by evening it withers and fades.

Verse 3:
Make us know the shortness of our life
that we may gain wisdom of heart.
Lord, relent! Is your anger for ever?
Show pity to your servants.

Verse 4:
In the morning, fill us with your love;
we shall exult and rejoice all our days.
Let the favour of the Lord be upon us;
give success to the work of our hands.