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| [1] Heare my prayer O God: and let my crying come in vnto thee |
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| [2]Hyde not thy face from me in the day of my distresse: encline thine eare vnto me, heare me spedyly in the day that I call |
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| [3]For my dayes are consumed away like smoke: and my bones are burnt vp as though they were a firebrande |
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| [4]My heart is smitten downe and wythered lyke grasse: because I did forget to eate my bread |
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| [5]Through the noyse of my gronyng: my bones wyll scase cleaue to my fleshe |
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| [6](102:6a) I am become lyke a Pellicane of the wildernesse, and like an Owle that is in the desert |
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| [7](102:6b) I watch, and am as it were a sparrowe that sitteth alone vpon the house toppe |
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| [8](102:7) Myne enemies reuile me all the day long: and they that are in a rage against me, make their oth by me |
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| [9](102:8a) For I haue eaten asshes as it were bread, and mingled my drynke with weepyng |
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| [10](102:8b) because of thine indignation and wrath: for thou hast set me vp, and cast me downe |
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| [11](102:9) My dayes fade away lyke a shadowe: and I am wythered lyke grasse |
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| [12](102:10) But thou O God endurest for euer: and thy remembraunce throughout all generations |
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| [13](102:11) Thou wylt aryse vp, thou wylt haue compassion vpon Sion: for it is tyme that thou haue mercie vpon her, for the tyme appoynted is come |
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| [14](102:12) For thy seruauntes be well affected towarde her stones: and it pitieth them to see her in the dust |
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| [15](102:13) And the heathen wyll feare thy name O God: and all the kynges of the earth thy glorious maiestie |
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| [16](102:14) For God wyll buylde vp Sion: to be seene in his glorious maiestie |
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| [17](102:15) He wyll regarde the prayer of the humble destitute of all helpe: and he wyll not dispise their prayer |
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| [18](102:16) This shalbe written for those that come after: and the people which shalbe borne, shall prayse the Lorde |
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| [19](102:17) For he hath loked downe from his high sanctuarie: out of heauen did God beholde the earth |
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| [20](102:18) That he might heare the mourninges of such as be in captiuitie: and delyuer the children of death |
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| [21](102:19) That they may declare the name of God in Sion: and his prayse at Hierusalem |
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| [22](102:20a) When people were gathered together, & kyngdomes to serue God |
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| [23](102:20b) he afflicted my strength in the way, he shortened my dayes |
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| [24](102:21) But I say, O my God take me not away in the middest of myne age: as for thy yeres, they endure throughout all generations |
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| [25](102:22) Thou hast before tyme layde the foundation of the earth: and the heauens are the worke of thy handes |
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| [26](102:23) They shall perishe, but thou wylt remayne styll: they all shall waxe olde as doth a garment, and as a vesture thou wylt chaunge them, and they shalbe chaunged |
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| [27](102:24a) But thou art, and thy yeres can not fayle |
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| [28](102:24b) the children of thy seruauntes shal dwell, and their seede shalbe maynteyned in thy syght |
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