1. 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.
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;