Psalms 101

¹The prayer of the poor, when he shall be anxious, and shall make his petition before our Lord.

²Lord hear my prayer: and let my cry come to thee.

³Turn not away thy face from me: in what day soever I am in tribulation, incline thine ear to me. In what day soever I shall invocate thee, hear me speedily.

⁴Because my days have vanished as smoke: and my bones are withered as a dry burnt firebrand.

⁵I am strucken as grass, and my heart is withered: because I have forgotten to eat my bread.

⁶For the voice of my groaning, my bone hath cleaved to my flesh.

⁷I am become like a pelican of the wilderness: I am become as a night crow in the house.

⁸I have watched, and am become as a sparrow solitary in the house-top.

⁹All the day did mine enemies upbraid me: and they that praised me sware against me.

¹⁰Because I did eat ashes as bread, & mingled my drink with weeping.

¹¹At the face of thy wrath and indignation: because lifting me up thou hast thrown me down.

¹²My days have declined as a shadow: and I am withered as grass.

¹³But thou o Lord endurest for ever: and thy memorial in generation and generation.

¹⁴Thou rising up shalt have mercy on Sion: because it is time to have mercy on it, because the time cometh.

¹⁵Because the stones thereof have pleased thy servants: and they shall have pity on the earth thereof.

¹⁶And the Gentiles shall fear thy name o Lord, and all the kings of the earth thy glory.

¹⁷Because our Lord hath built Sion: and he shall be seen in his glory.

¹⁸He hath had respect to the prayer of the humble: and he hath not despised their petition.

¹⁹Let these things be written unto another generation: and the people that shall be created shall praise our Lord.

²⁰Because he hath looked forth from his high holy place: our Lord from heaven hath looked upon the earth.

²¹That he might hear the groanings of the fettered: that he might loose the children of them that are slain:

²²That they may shew forth the name of our Lord in Sion: and his praise in Jerusalem.

²³In the assembling of the people together in one, and kings to serve our Lord.

²⁴He answered him in the way of his strength: Shew me the fewness of my days.

²⁵Call me not back in the half of my days: thy years are unto generation and generation.

²⁶In the beginning, o Lord, thou didst found the earth: and the heavens are the works of thy hands.

²⁷They shall perish, but thou art permanent: and they shall all wax old as a garment. And as a vesture thou shalt change them, and they shall be changed:

²⁸but thou art the self-same, and thy years shall not fail.

²⁹The children of thy servants shall inhabit: and their seed shall be directed for ever.