A prayer of one who is afflicted, when he grows faint and pours out his lament before the LORD.
The Prayer of the Afflicted
1021Hear my prayer, O Jehovah, And let my cry come unto thee.+2Hide 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.+3For my days consume away like smoke, And my bones are burned as a firebrand.+4My heart is smitten like grass, and withered; For I forget to eat my bread.+5By reason of the voice of my groaning My bones cleave to my flesh.+6I am like a pelican of the wilderness; I am become as an owl of the waste places.+7I watch, and am become like a sparrow That is alone upon the house-top.+8Mine enemies reproach me all the day; They that are mad against me do curse by me.+9For I have eaten ashes like bread, And mingled my drink with weeping,+10Because of thine indignation and thy wrath: For thou hast taken me up, and cast me away.+11My days are like a shadow that declineth; And I am withered like grass.+12But thou, O Jehovah, wilt abide for ever; And thy memorial [name] unto all generations.+13Thou wilt arise, and have mercy upon Zion; For it is time to have pity upon her, Yea, the set time is come.+14For thy servants take pleasure in her stones, And have pity upon her dust.+15So the nations shall fear the name of Jehovah, And all the kings of the earth thy glory.+16For Jehovah hath built up Zion; He hath appeared in his glory.+17He hath regarded the prayer of the destitute, And hath not despised their prayer.+18This shall be written for the generation to come; And a people which shall be created shall praise Jehovah.+19For he hath looked down from the height of his sanctuary; From heaven did Jehovah behold the earth;+20To hear the sighing of the prisoner; To loose those that are appointed to death;+21That men may declare the name of Jehovah in Zion, And his praise in Jerusalem;+22When the peoples are gathered together, And the kingdoms, to serve Jehovah.+23He weakened my strength in the way; He shortened my days.+24I said, O my God, take me not away in the midst of my days: Thy years are throughout all generations.+25Of old didst thou lay the foundation of the earth; And the heavens are the work of thy hands.+26They shall perish, but thou shalt endure; Yea, all of them shall wax old like a garment; As a vesture shalt thou change them, and they shall be changed:+27But thou art the same, And thy years shall have no end.+28The children of thy servants shall continue, And their seed shall be established before thee.+
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