1O Lord hear my prayer, and let my cry come unto thee.
2Hide not thy face from me in the time of my trouble: incline thine ears unto me, when I call, make haste to hear me.
3For my days are consumed like smoke, and my bones are burnt like an hearth.
4Mine heart is smitten, and withered like grass, because I forgat to eat my bread.
5For the voice of my groaning, my bones do cleave to my skin.
6I am like a pelican of the wilderness: I am like an owl of the deserts.
7I watch, and am as a sparrow alone upon the house top.
8Mine enemies revile me daily, and they that rage against me, have sworn against me.
9Surely I have eaten ashes as bread, and mingled my drink with weeping,
10Because of thine indignation and thy wrath: for thou hast heaved me up, and cast me down.
11My days are like a shadow that fadeth, and I am withered like grass.
12But thou, O Lord, dost remain forever, and thy remembrance from generation to generation.
13Thou wilt arise and have mercy upon Zion: for the time to have mercy thereon, for the appointed time is come.
14For thy servants delight in the stones thereof, and have pity on the dust thereof.
15Then the heathen shall fear the Name of the Lord, and all the kings of the earth thy glory,
16When the Lord shall build up Zion, and shall appear in his glory,
17And shall turn unto the prayer of the desolate, and not despise their prayer.
18This shall be written for the generation to come: and the people which shall be created, shall praise the Lord.
19For he hath looked down from the height of his Sanctuary: out of the heaven did the Lord behold the earth,
20That he might hear the mourning of the prisoner, and deliver the children of death.
21That they may declare the Name of the Lord in Zion, and his praise in Jerusalem,
22When the people shall be gathered together, and the kingdoms to serve the Lord.
23He abated my strength in the way, and shortened my days.
24And I said, O my God, take me not away in the midst of my days: thy years endure from generation to generation.
25Thou hast aforetime laid the foundation of the earth, and the heavens are the work of thine hands.
26They shall perish, but thou shalt endure: even they all shall wax old as doth a garment: as a vesture shalt thou change them, and they shall be changed.
27But thou art the same, and thy years shall not fail.
28The children of thy servants shall continue, and their seed shall stand fast in thy sight.