1. A prayer of the afflicted one, when he is faint and pours out his lament before Adonai:
2. Adonai, hear my prayer, let my cry come to You.
3. Do not hide Your face from me in the day of my distress. Turn Your ear to me— in the day I call, answer me quickly.
4. For my days vanished like smoke, and my bones were burned like coals.
5. My heart is stricken and withered like grass, so that I even forget to eat my bread.
6. Because of the sound of my groaning, my bones cling to my flesh.
7. I am like a pelican of the desert, like an owl of the waste places.
8. I lie awake, like a lonely bird on a roof.