1. HEar my prayer, O Lord; let my cry for help come to you
2. Do not hide your face from me when I am in distress. Turn your ear to me; when I call answer me quickly.
3. For my days vanish like smoker my bones burn like glowing embers
4.My heart is blighted and withered like grass; I forget to eat my food.
5. Because of my loud groaning I am reduced to skin and bones
6. I am like a desert owl, like an owl among the ruins
7. I lie awake; I have become like a bird alone on a roof
8. All day long my enemies taunt me; those who rail against me use my name as a curse
9. For I eat ashes as my food and mingle my drink with tears
10. because of your great wrath, for you have taken me up and thrown me aside
11. My days are like the evening shadow; I wither away like grass
12. But you, O Lord, sit enthroned forever; your renown endures through all generations
13. You will arise and have copassion on Zion, for it is time to show favor to her; the appointed time has come.
14. For her stones are dear to your servants; her very dust noves them to pity
15. The nations will fear the name of the Lord, all the kings of the earth will revere your glory
16. For the Lord will rebuild Zion and appear in his glory
17. He will respond to the prayer of the destitute; he will not despise their plea.
18 LEt this be written for a future generation, that people not yet created may praise the Lord;
19. " The Lord looked down from his sanctuary on high, from heaven he viewed the earth
20. to hear the groans of the prisoners and release those condemned to death."
21. So the name of the Lord wll be declared in Zion and his praise in Jerusalem
22. when the peoples and the kingdoms assemble to worship the Lord
23. In the course of my life he broke my strenth; he cut short my days.
24. So I said; " Do not take me away, O my God, in the midst of my days; your years go on through all generations
25. in the begining you laid the foundations of the earth, and the heavens are the work of your hands.
26. THey will perish, but you remain; they will all wear out like a garment. Like clothing you will change them and they will be discarded
27. But you remain the same, and your years will never end
28. The children of your servants will live in your presence; their descendants will be established before you."
Amen