| 2 O Lord, hear my prayer; let my cry for help come to you. | |
| 3 Do not hide your face from me when I am in trouble. Turn your ear to me; make haste to answer me when I call. | |
| 4 For my days are passing away like smoke, my bones burning like a furnace. | |
| 5 Like withered grass, my heart is blighted, and I forget to eat my bread. | |
| 6 Because of my great grief I am reduced to skin and bones. | |
| 7 I am like an owl in the wilderness, like a vulture among the ruins. | |
| 8 I awake moaning like a lonely bird on the housetop. | |
| 9 All day long I am taunted by my enemies; they use my name as a curse. | |
| 10 The bread I eat is ashes, my drink is mingled with tears, | |
| 11 for your wrath, your fury; for you have thrown me aside. | |
| 12 My days are vanishing like the shadows at night; I wither away like grass. | |
| 13 But you, O Lord, you sit forever; your name endures through all generations. | |
| 14 Arise, have mercy on Zion; this is the time to show her your mercy. | |
| 15 For your servants cherish her stones, and are moved to pity by her dust. | |
| 16 O Lord, the nations will revere your name, and the kings of the earth your glory, | |
| 17 when the Lord will rebuild Zion and appear in all his splendor. | |
| 18 For he will answer the prayer of the needy and will not despise their plea. | |
| 19 Let this be written for future ages, “the Lord will be praised by a people he will form.” | |
| 20 From his holy height in heaven, the Lord has looked on the earth | |
| 21 to hear the groaning of the prisoners, and free those condemned to death. | |
| 22 Then the name of the Lord will be declared in Zion, and his praise in Jerusalem, | |
| 23 when the peoples and the kingdoms assemble to worship him. | |
| 24 My walk has exhausted me, he has cut short my days. | |
| 25 I cry to him, “My God, do not take my life in mid-course, you whose days are from age to age.” | |
| 26 In the beginning you laid the earth’s foundation, the heavens are the work of your hands. | |
| 27 Although they perish, you will remain; they will all wear out like a garment, you change them like clothes: they pass away, | |
| 28 but you remain the same, your years unending. | |
| 29 Your servants’ children will dwell secure; their posterity will endure without fail. | |
