Like as a father pitieth his children, so the Lord pitieth them that fear
him. For he knoweth our frame; he remembereth that we are
dust. As for man, his days are as grass: as a flower
of the field, so he flourisheth. For the wind passeth over it,
and it is gone; and the place thereof shall know it no more. But the
mercy of the Lord
is from everlasting to everlasting upon them that
fear him, and his righteousness unto children’s
children; To such as keep his covenant, and to those
that remember his commandments to do them.
Psalms 103:13-18