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| [1]Hear my prayer, O Lord, and let my cry come to thee. |
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| [2]Turn not away thy face from me: in the day when I am afflicted, incline thine ear to me: in the day when I shall call upon thee, speedily hear me. |
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| [3]For my days have vanished like smoke, and my bones have been parched like a stick. |
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| [4]I am blighted like grass, and my heart is dried up; for I have forgotten to eat my bread. |
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| [5]By reason of the voice of my groaning, my bone has cleaved to my flesh. |
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| [6]I have become like a pelican of the wilderness; |
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| [7]I have become like an owl in a ruined house. I have watched, and am become as a sparrow dwelling alone on a roof. |
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| [8]All the day long mine enemies have reproached me; and they that praised me have sworn against me. |
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| [9]For I have eaten ashes as it were bread, and mingled my drink with weeping; |
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| [10]because of thine anger and thy wrath: for thou hast lifted me up, and dashed me down. |
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| [11]My days have declined like a shadow; and I am withered like grass. |
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| [12]But thou, Lord, endurest for ever, and thy memorial to generation and generation. |
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| [13]Thou shalt arise, and have mercy upon Sion: for it is time to have mercy upon her, for the set time is come. |
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| [14]For thy servants have taken pleasure in her stones, and they shall pity her dust. |
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| [15]So the nations shall fear thy name, O Lord, and all kings thy glory. |
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| [16]For the Lord shall build up Sion, and shall appear in his glory. |
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| [17]He has had regard to the prayer of the lowly, and has not despised their petition. |
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| [18]Let this be written for another generation; and the people that shall be created shall praise the Lord. |
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| [19]For he has looked out from the height of his sanctuary; the Lord looked upon the earth from heaven; |
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| [20]to hear the groaning of the fettered ones, to loosen the sons of the slain; |
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| [21]to proclaim the name of the Lord in Sion, and his praise in Jerusalem; |
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| [22]when the people are gathered together, and the kings, to serve the Lord. |
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| [23]He answered him in the way of his strength: tell me the fewness of my days. |
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| [24]Take me not away in the midst of my days: thy years are through all generations. |
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| [25]In the beginning thou, O Lord, didst lay the foundation of the earth; and the heavens are the works of thine hands. |
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| [26]They shall perish, but thou remainest: and they all shall wax old as a garment; and as a vesture shalt thou fold them, and they shall be changed. |
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| [27]But thou art the same, and thy years shall not fail. |
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| [28]The children of thy servants shall dwell securely, and their seed shall prosper for ever. |
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