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¹ Heare my prayer (o LORDE) and let my criege come vnto the.² Hyde not thy face fro me in the tyme of my trouble: enclyne thine eares vnto me when I call, O heare me, and that right soone.³ For my dayes are consumed awaye like smoke, & my bones are brent vp as it were a fyre brande.⁴ My hert is smytte downe and wythered like grasse, so that I forget to eate my bred.⁵ For the voyce of my gronynge, my bone wil scarse cleue to my flesh.⁶ I am become like a Pellicane in the wildernes, and like an Oule in a broken wall.⁷ I wake, and am euen as it were a sparow sittinge alone vpon the house toppe.⁸ Myne enemies reuyle me all the daye longe, they laugh me to scorne, and are sworne together against me.⁹ I eate ashes with my bred, and mengle my drynke with wepynge.¹⁰ And that because of ye indignacion and wrath, for thou hast taken me vp, and cast me awaye.¹¹ My dayes are gone like a shadowe, and I am wythered like grasse.

¹² But thou (o LORDE) endurest for euer, and thy remembraunce thorow out all generacions.¹³ Arise therfore and haue mercy vpon Sion, for it is tyme to haue mercy vpon her, yee the tyme is come.¹⁴ And why? thy seruauntes haue a loue to hir stones, & it pitieth them to se her in the dust.¹⁵ The Heithen shal feare thy name (o LORDE) and all the kynges of the earth thy maiesty.¹⁶ For the LORDE shal buylde vp Sion, and shal apeare in his glory. ¹⁷ e turneth him vnto the prayer of the poore destitute, and despyseth not their desyre.¹⁸ This shalbe written for those yt come after, that the people which shalbe borne, maye prayse the LORDE.¹⁹ For He loketh downe from his Sanctuary, out of the heauen doth the LORDE beholde the earth.²⁰ That he maye heare the mournynges of soch as be in captiuyte, and delyuer the children of death.²¹ That they maie preach the name of the LORDE in Sion, and his worshipe at Ierusalem.²² When the people are gathered together, and the kyngdomes also to serue ye LORDE.

²³ He hath brought downe my strength in my iourney, and shortened my dayes.²⁴ Yet wil I saye: O my God, take me not awaye in ye myddest of myne age: as for thy yeares, they endure thorow out all generacions.²⁵ Thou LORDE in the begynnynge hast layed ye foundacion of the earth, and the heauens are the workes of thy hondes.²⁶ They shal perishe, but thou shalt endure: they all shall wexe olde as doth a garment,²⁷ & as a vesture shalt thou chaunge the, and they shalbe chaunged. But thou art the same, and thy yeares shal not fayle.²⁸ The children of thy seruauntes shall contynue, & their sede shal prospere in yi sight.