- 1. <A Prayer of the man who is in trouble, when he is overcome, and puts his grief before the Lord.><br>
Give ear to my prayer, O Lord, and let my cry come to you. - 2. Let not your face be veiled from me in the day of my trouble; give ear to me, and let my cry be answered quickly.
- 3. My days are wasted like smoke, and my bones are burned up as in a fire.
- 4. My heart is broken; it has become dry and dead like grass, so that I give no thought to food.
- 5. Because of the voice of my sorrow, my flesh is wasted to the bone.
- 6. I am like a bird living by itself in the waste places; like the night-bird in a waste of sand.
- 7. I keep watch like a bird by itself on the house-top.
- 8. My haters say evil of me all day; those who are violent against me make use of my name as a curse.
- 9. I have had dust for bread and my drink has been mixed with weeping:
- 10. Because of your passion and your wrath, for I have been lifted up and then made low by you.
- 11. My days are like a shade which is stretched out; I am dry like the grass.
- 12. But you, O Lord, are eternal; and your name will never come to an end.
- 13. You will again get up and have mercy on Zion: for the time has come for her to be comforted.
- 14. For your servants take pleasure in her stones, looking with love on her dust.
- 15. So the nations will give honour to the name of the Lord, and all the kings of the earth will be in fear of his glory:
- 16. When the Lord has put up the walls of Zion, and has been been in his glory;
- 17. When he has given ear to the prayer of the poor, and has not put his request on one side.
- 18. This will be put in writing for the coming generation, and the people of the future will give praise to the Lord.
- 19. For from his holy place the Lord has seen, looking down on the earth from heaven;
- 20. Hearing the cry of the prisoner, making free those for whom death is ordered;
- 21. So that they may give out the name of the Lord in Zion, and his praise in Jerusalem;
- 22. When the peoples are come together, and the kingdoms, to give worship to the Lord.
- 23. He has taken my strength from me in the way; he has made short my days.
- 24. I will say, O my God, take me not away before my time; your years go on through all generations:
- 25. In the past you put the earth on its base, and the heavens are the work of your hands.
- 26. They will come to an end, but you will still go on; they all will become old like a coat, and like a robe they will be changed:
- 27. But you are the unchanging One, and your years will have no end.
- 28. The children of your servants will have a safe resting-place, and their seed will be ever before you.
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