Psalms 103:13-17

13Like as a father pitieth his children, so the LORD pitieth them that fear him. 14For he knoweth our frame; he remembereth that we are dust. 15As for man, his days are as grass: as a flower of the field, so he flourisheth. 16For the wind passeth over it, and it is gone; and its place shall know it no more.1 17But the mercy of the LORD is from everlasting to everlasting upon them that fear him, and his righteousness to children’s children;