Chapter 101

A prayer for one in affliction: the fifth penitential psalm.

1. 1

   The prayer of the poor man, when he was anxious, and poured out his supplication before the Lord.

2. 2

   Hear, O Lord, my prayer: and let my cry come to thee.

3. 3

   Turn not away thy face from me: in the day when I am in trouble, incline thy ear to me.

4. 4

   For my days are vanished like smoke: and my bones are grown dry like fuel for the fire.

5. 5

   I am smitten as grass, and my heart is withered: because I forgot to eat my bread.

6. 6

   Through the voice of my groaning, my bone hath cleaved to my flesh.

7. 7

   I am become like to a pelican of the wilderness: I am like a night-raven in the house.

8. 8

   I have watched, and am become as a sparrow, all alone on the house top.

9. 9

   All the day long my enemies reproached me: and they that praised me, did swear against me.

10. 10

    For I did eat ashes like bread, and mingled my drink with weeping.

11. 11

    Because of thy anger and indignation: for having lifted me up, thou hast thrown me down.

12. 12

    My days have declined like a shadow, and I am withered like grass.

13. 13

    But thou, O Lord, endurest for ever: and thy memorial to all generations.

14. 14

    Thou shalt arise and have mercy on Sion: for it is time to have mercy on it, for the time is come.

15. 15

    For the stones thereof have pleased thy servants: and they shall have pity on the earth thereof.

16. 16

    And the Gentiles shall fear thy name, O Lord, and all the kings of the earth thy glory.

17. 17

    For the Lord hath built up Sion: and he shall be seen in his glory.

18. 18

    He hath had regard to the prayer of the humble: and he hath not despised their petition.

19. 19

    Let these things be written unto another generation: and the people that shall be created, shall praise the Lord:

20. 20

    Because he hath looked forth from his high sanctuary: from heaven the Lord hath looked upon the earth.

21. 21

    That he might hear the groans of them that are in fetters: that he might release the children of the slain:

22. 22

    That they may declare the name of the Lord in Sion: and his praise in Jerusalem.

23. 23

    When the people assemble together, and kings to serve the Lord.

24. 24

    He answered him in the way of his strength: Declare unto me the fewness of my days.

25. 25

    Call me not away in the midst of my days: thy years are unto generation and generation.

26. 26

    In the beginning, O Lord, thou foundedst the earth: and the heavens are the works of thy hands.

27. 27

    They shall perish, but thou remainest: and all of them shall grow old like a garment:

28. 29

    The children of thy servants shall continue: and their seed shall be directed for ever.