4. I am beaten down like dry grass;I have lost my desire for food.
5. I groan aloud;I am nothing but skin and bones.
6. I am like a wild bird in the desert,like an owl in abandoned ruins.
7. I lie awake;I am like a lonely bird on a housetop.
8. All day long my enemies insult me;those who mock me use my name in cursing.
9-10. Because of your anger and fury,ashes are my food,and my tears are mixed with my drink.You picked me up and threw me away.
11. My life is like the evening shadows;I am like dry grass.
12. But you, O Lord, are king for ever;all generations will remember you.
13. You will rise and take pity on Zion;the time has come to have mercy on her;this is the right time.
14. Your servants love her,even though she is destroyed;they have pity on her,even though she is in ruins.
15. The nations will fear the Lord;all the kings of the earth will fear his power.
16. When the Lord rebuilds Zion,he will reveal his greatness.
17. He will hear his forsaken peopleand listen to their prayer.
18. Write down for the coming generation what the Lord has done,so that people not yet born will praise him.
19. The Lord looked down from his holy place on high,he looked down from heaven to earth.
20. He heard the groans of prisonersand set free those who were condemned to die.
21. And so his name will be proclaimed in Zion,and he will be praised in Jerusalem