2 Hide not thy face from me in the day when I am in trouble incline thine ear unto me in the day when I call answer me speedily
3 For my days are consumed like smoke and my bones are burned as an hearth
4 My heart is smitten and withered like grass so that I forget to eat my bread
5 By reason of the voice of my groaning my bones cleave to my skin
6 I am like a pelican of the wilderness I am like an owl of the desert
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 against me are sworn against me
9 For I have eaten ashes like bread and mingled my drink with weeping
10 Because of thine indignation and thy wrath for thou hast lifted me up and cast me down
11 My days are like a shadow that declineth and I am withered like grass
12 But thou O LORD shalt endure for ever and thy remembrance unto all generations
13 Thou shalt arise and have mercy upon Zion for the time to favour her yea the set time is come
14 For thy servants take pleasure in her stones and favour the dust thereof
15 So the heathen shall fear the name of the LORD and all the kings of the earth thy glory
16 When the LORD shall build up Zion he shall appear in his glory
17 He will regard the prayer of the destitute and not despise their prayer
18 This shall be written for the generation to come and the people which shall be created shall praise the LORD
19 For he hath looked down from the height of his sanctuary from heaven did the LORD behold the earth
20 To hear the groaning of the prisoner to loose those that are appointed to death
21 To declare the name of the LORD in Zion and his praise in Jerusalem
22 When the people are gathered together and the kingdoms to serve the LORD
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 years are throughout all generations
25 Of old hast thou laid the foundation of the earth and the heavens are the work of thy hands
26 They shall perish but thou shalt endure yea all of them shall wax old like a garment as a vesture shalt thou change them and they shall be changed
27 But thou art the same and thy years shall have no end
28 The children of thy servants shall continue and their seed shall be established before thee
