1. Hear my prayer, O LORD, and let my cry come unto you.
2. Hide not your face from me in the day when I am in trouble; incline your ear unto me: in the day when I call answer me speedily.
3. For my days are consumed like smoke, and my bones are burned as a hearth.
4. My heart is smitten, and withered like grass; so that I forget to eat my bread.
5. Because of the voice of my groaning my bones cling to my skin.
6. I am like a vulture 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 they that rail against me are sworn against me.
9. For I have eaten ashes like bread, and mingled my drink with weeping,
10. Because of your indignation and your wrath: for you have lifted me up, and cast me down.