Earth, thou hast been our dwelling place

For all these years and generations to come

Thou art belongs to the universe, not ours

To own, to abuse thy wealth within thee

Before us, the sea, heavens, mountains,

And everything within, without

Thou art already Earth

Thou turnest man to destroy thee

And never give complaint

In the morning, care thee for us

They are like grass which groweth up

In the morning to come,

Thy servants flourisheth and groweth more

And in the evening without thy knoweth

Thy servants cut thee down and withereth

By thine anger, are we consumed

By thy wrath, are we troubled

Thou hast set our iniquities before thee

Threescore years and ten,

Fourscore years, thy servants carriest

To offend thy goodness, labour and sorrow

We knoweth the power of thy anger

That soon thy servants’ death is nigh

We will be cut off, we fly away forever

Oh Earth, give us thy wisdom

To teach us to number our days of fear

To teach us to repent and satisfy us

Early with thy mercy

That we may rejoice and be glad all our days

Oh Earth our only dwelling place

Forgive us, have mercy on us all!.

Note: This is a lesson that we learned from the recent

Metro Manila & Central Luzon flood, Sep. 26, 2009

The environmental theme is inspired from the Book of  Psalms