1. A Prayer of the afflicted, when he is overwhelmed, and poureth out his complaint before the LORD. Hear my prayer, O LORD, and let my cry come unto thee.
2. Hide not thy face from me in the day of my distress: incline thine ear unto me; in the day when I call answer me speedily.
3. For my days consume away like smoke, and my bones are burned as a firebrand.
4. My heart is smitten like grass, and withered; for I forget to eat my bread.
5. By reason of the voice of my groaning my bones cleave to my flesh.
6. I am like a pelican of the wilderness; I am become as an owl of the waste places.
7. I watch, and am become like a sparrow that is alone upon the housetop.
8. Mine enemies reproach me all the day; they that are mad against me do curse by 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 taken me up, and cast me away.
11. My days are like a shadow that declineth; and I am withered like grass.