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| 1 [[A Prayer for the Humbled One when he is about to faint, and, before Yahweh, poureth out his grief.]] O Yahweh, hear thou my prayer, and let, my cry for help, unto thee, enter in. |
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| 2 Do not hide thy face from me, In the day when I am in distress,–Bend down unto me thine ear, In the day when I call, speedily answer me. |
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| 3 For, consumed in smoke, are my days, And, my bones, like a burning mass, are scorched through; |
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| 4 Smitten like herbage, so is my heart dried up, For I have forgotten to eat my food. |
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| 5 At the noise of my groaning, my bone, hath cleaved, to my flesh: |
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| 6 I am like the pelican of the desert, I have become as an owl among ruins. |
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| 7 I have watched and am become, Like a bird sitting alone upon a housetop. |
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| 8 All the day, have mine enemies, reproached me, And, they who are mad against me, by me, have sworn. |
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| 9 For, ashes–like bread, have I eaten, And, my drink–with my tears, have I mingled; |
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| 10 Because of thine indignation and thy wrath, For thou hast lifted me up, and cast me down. |
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| 11 My days, are like a shadow extended, And, I, as green herbage, do wither. |
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| 12 But, thou, O Yahweh, age-abidingly wilt remain, And the memorial of thee, to generation after generation. |
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| 13 Thou, wilt arise, wilt have compassion upon Zion, Surely it is time to favour her, Surely the time appointed, hath come; |
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| 14 Seeing that thy servants, take pleasure, in her stones, And, her dust, they favour: |
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| 15 That the nations may revere thy Name, O Yahweh, And all the kings of the earth, thy glory. |
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| 16 When Yahweh, hath built up, Zion, Hath appeared in his glory; |
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| 17 Hath turned towards the prayer of the destitute, And not despised their prayer, |
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| 18 This, shall be written, for a later generation, And, a people to be created, will give praise unto Yah:– |
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| 19 That he looked down, out of his holy height, Yahweh, from the heavens unto the earth, directed his gaze;– |
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| 20 To hear the groaning of the prisoner, To set free, them who were appointed to death. |
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| 21 To the end the Name of Yahweh, might be celebrated in Zion, And his praise in Jerusalem: |
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| 22 When the peoples, gather themselves together, And the kingdoms, to serve Yahweh. |
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| 23 He hath prostrated, in the way, my strength,–He hath shortened my days. |
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| 24 I said, O my GOD, do not remove me in the midst of my days, Throughout the generation of generations, are thy years; |
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| 25 Of old–the earth, thou didst found, And, the work of thy hands, are the heavens; |
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| 26 They, shall perish, But, thou, wilt abide; And, they all, like a garment, shall fall in pieces, As a vesture, wilt thou change them and they shall vanish; |
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| 27 But, thou, art, the same,–And, thy years, shall have no end: |
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| 28 The children of thy servants, shall continue,–And, their seed, before thee, be established.
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