6. I am like a pelican of the wilderness; I am like an owl of the desert.
7. I watch and am as a sparrow alone upon the house top.
8. My enemies reproach me all the day, and those that are mad against me are sworn against me.
9. For I have eaten ashes like bread and mingled my drink with weeping,
10. because of thine indignation and thy wrath; for thou hast lifted me up and cast me down.
11. My days are like a shadow that declines, and I am withered like grass.
12. But thou, O Lord, shalt endure for ever and thy remembrance unto all generations.
13. Thou shalt arise and have mercy upon Zion; for the time to favour her, the set time, is come.
14. For thy slaves love her stones and have compassion on the dust thereof.
15. So the Gentiles shall fear the name of the Lord, and all the kings of the earth thy glory
16. because the Lord shall have built up Zion, and he shall be seen in his glory.
17. He shall have regarded the prayer of those who are alone and destitute and not despised their prayer.
18. This shall be written for the generation to come, and the people who shall be created shall praise JAH.
19. For he has looked down from the height of his sanctuary; from the heavens the Lord beheld the earth