1. Hear my tefillah, Hashem, and let my cry for help come unto Thee.
2. (3) Hide not Thy face from me in the yom tzar (day of distress); incline Thine ear unto me; in the yom when I call, answer me speedily.
3. (4) For my yamim are consumed like ashan (smoke), and my atzmot burn like a furnace.
4. (5) My lev is struck, and withered like esev; so that I forget to eat my lechem.
5. (6) By reason of the voice of my groaning my atzmot have deveykus to my basar.
6. (7) I am like a bird of the midbar; I am like an owl of the desert.
7. (8) I keep watch, and am like a tzippor (bird) alone upon the gag (housetop, roof).
8. (9) Mine oyevim (enemies) reproach me kol hayom; and they that revile me curse by me.
9. (10) For I have eaten ashes like lechem, and mingled my drink with tears.