aHear my prayer, O LORD! And let my cry for help bcome to You.
2aDo not hide Your face from me in the day of my distress; bIncline Your ear to me; In the day when I call aanswer me quickly.
3For my days ahave been 1consumed in smoke, And my bbones have been scorched like a hearth.
4My heart ahas been smitten like 1grass and has bwithered away, Indeed, I cforget to eat my bread.
5Because of the 1loudness of my groaning My abones 2cling to my flesh.
6I 1resemble a apelican of the wilderness; I have become like an owl of the waste places.
7I alie awake, I have become like a lonely bird on a housetop.
8My enemies ahave reproached me all day long; Those who 1 bderide me 2have used my name as a ccurse.
9For I have eaten ashes like bread And amingled my drink with weeping
10aBecause of Your indignation and Your wrath, For You have blifted me up and cast me away.
11My days are like a 1 alengthened shadow, And 2I bwither away like 3grass.
12But You, O LORD, 1 aabide forever, And Your 2 bname to all generations.
13You will aarise and have bcompassion on Zion; For cit is time to be gracious to her, For the dappointed time has come.
14Surely Your servants 1find pleasure in her stones And feel pity for her dust.
151So the 2 anations will fear the name of the LORD And ball the kings of the earth Your glory.
16For the LORD has abuilt up Zion; He has bappeared in His glory.
17He has aregarded the prayer of the 1destitute And has not despised their prayer.
181This will be awritten for the bgeneration to come, 2That ca people yet to be created 3may praise 4the LORD.
19For He alooked down from His holy height; bFrom heaven the LORD gazed 1upon the earth,
20To hear the agroaning of the prisoner, To bset free 1those who were doomed to death,
21That men may atell of the name of the LORD in Zion And His praise in Jerusalem,
22When athe peoples are gathered together, And the kingdoms, to serve the LORD.
23He has weakened my strength in the way; He has ashortened my days.
24I say, "O my God, ado not take me away in the 1midst of my days, Your byears are throughout all generations.
25"Of old You afounded the earth, And the bheavens are the work of Your hands.
26" 1Even they will aperish, but You endure; And all of them will wear out like a garment; Like clothing You will change them and they will be changed.
27"But You are 1 athe same, And Your years will not come to an end.
28"The achildren of Your servants will continue, And their 1 bdescendants will be established before You."