7. I am sleepless and lie awake [mourning], like a bereaved sparrow alone on the housetop.
8. My adversaries taunt and reproach me all the day; and they who are angry with me use my name as a curse.
9. For I have eaten the ashes [in which I sat] as if they were bread and have mingled my drink with weeping
10. Because of Your indignation and Your wrath, for You have taken me up and cast me away.
11. My days are like an evening shadow that stretches out and declines [with the sun]; and I am withered like grass.
12. But You, O Lord, are enthroned forever; and the fame of Your name endures to all generations.
13. You will arise and have mercy and loving-kindness for Zion, for it is time to have pity and compassion for her; yes, the set time has come [the moment designated]. [Ps. 12:5; 119:126.]
14. For Your servants take [melancholy] pleasure in the stones [of her ruins] and show pity for her dust.
15. So the nations shall fear and worshipfully revere the name of the Lord, and all the kings of the earth Your glory. [Ps. 96:9.]