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¹ Heare my prayer O God: and let my crying come in vnto thee.² Hyde not thy face from me in ye day of my distresse: encline thine eare vnto me, heare me spedyly in the day that I call.³ For my dayes are consumed away like smoke: and my bones are burnt vp as though they were a firebrande.⁴ My heart is smitten downe and wythered lyke grasse: because I did forget to eate my bread.⁵ Through the noyse of my gronyng: my bones wyll scase cleaue to my fleshe.⁶ I am become lyke a Pellicane of the wildernesse, and like an Owle that is in the desert: ⁷ I watch, and am as it were a sparrowe that sitteth alone vpon the house toppe.⁸ Myne enemies reuile me all the day long: and they that are in a rage against me, make their oth by me.⁹ For I haue eaten asshes as it were bread, and mingled my drynke with weepyng, ¹⁰ because of thine indignation and wrath: for thou hast set me vp, and cast me downe.¹¹ My dayes fade away lyke a shadowe: and I am wythered lyke grasse.

¹² But thou O God endurest for euer: and thy remembraunce throughout all generations.¹³ Thou wylt aryse vp, thou wylt haue compassion vpon Sion: for it is tyme that thou haue mercie vpon her, for the tyme appoynted is come.¹⁴ For thy seruauntes be well affected towarde her stones: and it pitieth them to see her in the dust.¹⁵ And the heathen wyll feare thy name O God: and all the kynges of the earth thy glorious maiestie.¹⁶ For God wyll buylde vp Sion: to be seene in his glorious maiestie.¹⁷ He wyll regarde the prayer of the humble destitute of all helpe: and he wyll not dispise their prayer.¹⁸ This shalbe written for those that come after: and the people which shalbe borne, shall prayse the Lorde.¹⁹ For he hath loked downe from his high sanctuarie: out of heauen did God beholde the earth.²⁰ That he might heare the mourninges of such as be in captiuitie: and delyuer the children of death.²¹ That they may declare ye name of God in Sion: and his prayse at Hierusalem.²² When people were gathered together, & kyngdomes to serue God:

²³ he afflicted my strength in the way, he shortened my dayes.²⁴ But I say, O my God take me not away in the middest of myne age: as for thy yeres, they endure throughout all generations.²⁵ Thou hast before tyme layde the foundation of the earth: and the heauens are the worke of thy handes.²⁶ They shall perishe, but thou wylt remayne styll: they all shall waxe olde as doth a garment, and as a vesture thou wylt chaunge them, and they shalbe chaunged.²⁷ But thou art, and thy yeres can not fayle: ²⁸ the children of thy seruauntes shal dwell, and their seede shalbe maynteyned in thy syght.