1. Hear my prayer, Yahweh! Let my cry come to you.
2. Don’t hide your face from me in the day of my distress. Turn your ear to me. Answer me quickly in the day when I call.
3. For my days consume away like smoke. My bones are burned as a torch.
4. My heart is blighted like grass, and withered, for I forget to eat my bread.
5. By reason of the voice of my groaning, my bones stick to my skin.
6. I am like a pelican of the wilderness. I have become as an owl of the waste places.
7. I watch, and have become like a sparrow that is alone on the housetop.