1 Hear my prayer, O LORD, and let my cry come unto thee.
2 Hide not thy face from me in the day when I am in trouble;
3 For my days are consumed like smoke, and my bones are burned as
4 My heart is smitten, and withered like grass; so that I forget
5 By reason of the voice of my groaning my bones cleave to my
6 I am like a pelican of the wilderness: I am like an owl of the
7 I watch, and am as a sparrow alone upon the house top.
8 Mine enemies reproach me all the day; and they that are mad
9 For I have eaten ashes like bread, and mingled my drink with
10 Because of thine indignation and thy wrath: for thou hast
11 My days are like a shadow that declineth; and I am withered
12 But thou, O LORD, shall endure for ever; and thy remembrance
13 Thou shalt arise, and have mercy upon Zion: for the time to
14 For thy servants take pleasure in her stones, and favour the
15 So the heathen shall fear the name of the LORD, and all the
16 When the LORD shall build up Zion, he shall appear in his
17 He will regard the prayer of the destitute, and not despise
18 This shall be written for the generation to come: and the
19 For he hath looked down from the height of his sanctuary; from
20 To hear the groaning of the prisoner; to loose those that are
21 To declare the name of the LORD in Zion, and his praise in
22 When the people are gathered together, and the kingdoms, to
23 He weakened my strength in the way; he shortened my days.
24 I said, O my God, take me not away in the midst of my days: thy
25 Of old hast thou laid the foundation of the earth: and the
26 They shall perish, but thou shalt endure: yea, all of them
27 But thou art the same, and thy years shall have no end.
28 The children of thy servants shall continue, and their seed