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.
12. But thou, O LORD, shalt abide for ever; and thy memorial unto all generations.
13. Thou shalt arise, and have mercy upon Zion: for it is time to have pity upon her, yea, the set time is come.
14. For thy servants take pleasure in her stones, and have pity upon her dust.
15. So the nations shall fear the name of the LORD, and all the kings of the earth thy glory:
16. For the LORD hath built up Zion, he hath appeared in his glory;
17. He hath regarded the prayer of the destitute, and hath not despised their prayer.
18. This shall be written for the generation to come: and a 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;