1 LORD, listen to my prayer,
and hear my cry for aid.
2 Hide not your face from me,
for I am so afraid.
Incline your ear to me in need;
and, when I call, be swift to heed.
3 Like smoke my days are gone;
my bones are burned away.
4 My appetite is lost;
my heart is parched like hay.
5 Because of my incessant groans
I am no more than skin and bones.
6 I’m like a desert owl,
an owl midst tumbled stone,
7 Or bird upon a roof—
I lie awake, alone.
8 My foes revile me all day long;
my haters mock my name in song.
9 For ashes are my food;
I weep incessantly
10 Because in your great wrath
you have abandoned me.
11 My days like evening shadows pass;
I wither like the sun-dried grass.
The psalm continues at Psalm 102B.
– Sing Psalms, alt.
Oremus 