1 A prayer of the afflicted when he was ouerwhelmed, and when he did powre out his petition before the face of God. Heare my prayer O God: and let my crying come in vnto thee. VP
2 Hyde not thy face from me in the day of my distresse: encline thine eare vnto me, heare me spedyly in the day that I call. VP
3 For my dayes are consumed away like smoke: and my bones are burnt vp as though they were a firebrande. VP
4 My heart is smitten downe and wythered lyke grasse: because I did forget to eate my bread. VP
5 Through the noyse of my gronyng: my bones wyll scase cleaue to my fleshe. VP
6 I am become lyke a Pellicane of the wildernesse, and like an Owle that is in the desert: VP
7 I watch, and am as it were a sparrowe that sitteth alone vpon the house toppe. VP
8 Myne enemies reuile me all the day long: and they that are in a rage against me, make their oth by me. VP
9 For I haue eaten asshes as it were bread, and mingled my drynke with weepyng, VP
10 because of thine indignation and wrath: for thou hast set me vp, and cast me downe. VP
11 My dayes fade away lyke a shadowe: and I am wythered lyke grasse. VP
12 But thou O God endurest for euer: and thy remembraunce throughout all generations. VP
13 Thou wylt aryse vp, thou wylt haue compassion vpon Sion: for it is tyme that thou haue mercie vpon her, for the tyme appoynted is come. VP
14 For thy seruauntes be well affected towarde her stones: and it pitieth them to see her in the dust. VP
15 And the heathen wyll feare thy name O God: and all the kynges of the earth thy glorious maiestie. VP
16 For God wyll buylde vp Sion: to be seene in his glorious maiestie. VP
17 He wyll regarde the prayer of the humble destitute of all helpe: and he wyll not dispise their prayer. VP
18 This shalbe written for those that come after: and the people which shalbe borne, shall prayse the Lorde. VP
19 For he hath loked downe from his high sanctuarie: out of heauen did God beholde the earth. VP
20 That he might heare the mourninges of such as be in captiuitie: and delyuer the children of death. VP
21 That they may declare the name of God in Sion: and his prayse at Hierusalem. VP
22 When people were gathered together, & kyngdomes to serue God: VP
23 he afflicted my strength in the way, he shortened my dayes. VP
24 But I say, O my God take me not away in the middest of myne age: as for thy yeres, they endure throughout all generations. VP
25 Thou hast before tyme layde the foundation of the earth: and the heauens are the worke of thy handes. VP
26 They shall perishe, but thou wylt remayne styll: they all shall waxe olde as doth a garment, and as a vesture thou wylt chaunge them, and they shalbe chaunged. VP
27 But thou art, and thy yeres can not fayle: VP
28 the children of thy seruauntes shal dwell, and their seede shalbe maynteyned in thy syght. VP