10. For I chewed on ashes like bread, and I mixed weeping into my drink.
11. By the face of your anger and indignation, you lifted me up and threw me down.
12. My days have declined like a shadow, and I have dried out like hay.
13. But you, O Lord, endure for eternity, and your memorial is from generation to generation.
14. You will rise up and take pity on Zion, for it is time for its mercy, for the time has come.
15. For its stones have pleased your servants, and they will take pity on its land.
16. And the Gentiles will fear your name, O Lord, and all the kings of the earth your glory.
17. For the Lord has built up Zion, and he will be seen in his glory.
18. He has noticed of the prayer of the humble, and he has not despised their petition.
19. Let these things be written in another generation, and the people who will be created will praise the Lord.
20. For he has gazed from his high sanctuary. From heaven, the Lord has beheld the earth.
21. So may he hear the groans of those in shackles, in order that he may release the sons of the slain.
22. So may they announce the name of the Lord in Zion and his praise in Jerusalem: