Psalm 102:1–11
1 aHear my prayer, O Lord!
And let my cry for help bcome to You.
2 aDo not hide Your face from me in the day of my distress;
bIncline Your ear to me;
In the day when I call aanswer me quickly.
3 For my days ahave been 1consumed in smoke,
And my bbones have been scorched like a hearth.
4 My heart ahas been smitten like 1grass and has bwithered away,
Indeed, I cforget to eat my bread.
5 Because of the 1loudness of my groaning
6 I 1resemble a apelican of the wilderness;
I have become like an owl of the waste places.
7 I alie awake,
I have become like a lonely bird on a housetop.
8 My enemies ahave reproached me all day long;
Those who 1bderide me 2have used my name as a ccurse.
9 For I have eaten ashes like bread
And amingled my drink with weeping
10 aBecause of Your indignation and Your wrath,
For You have blifted me up and cast me away.