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¹ (101-1) <The prayer of the poor man, when he was anxious, and poured out his supplication before the Lord.> (101-2) Hear, O Lord, my prayer: and let my cry come to thee.² (101-3) Turn not away thy face from me: in the day when I am in trouble, incline thy ear to me. In what day soever I shall call upon thee, hear me speedily.³ (101-4) For my days are vanished like smoke, and my bones are grown dry like fuel for the fire.⁴ (101-5) I am smitten as grass, and my heart is withered: because I forgot to eat my bread.⁵ (101-6) Through the voice of my groaning, my bone hath cleaved to my flesh.⁶ (101-7) I am become like to a pelican of the wilderness: I am like a night raven in the house.⁷ (101-8) I have watched, and am become as a sparrow all alone on the housetop.⁸ (101-9) All the day long my enemies reproached me: and they that praised me did swear against me.⁹ (101-10) For I did eat ashes like bread, and mingled my drink with weeping.¹⁰ (101-11) Because of thy anger and indignation: for having lifted me up thou hast thrown me down.¹¹ (101-12) My days have declined like a shadow, and I am withered like grass.

¹² (101-13) But thou, O Lord, endurest for ever: and thy memorial to all generations.¹³ (101-14) Thou shalt arise and have mercy on Sion: for it is time to have mercy on it, for the time is come.¹⁴ (101-15) For the stones thereof have pleased thy servants: and they shall have pity on the earth thereof.¹⁵ (101-16) All the Gentiles shall fear thy name, O Lord, and all the kings of the earth thy glory.¹⁶ (101-17) For the Lord hath built up Sion: and he shall be seen in his glory.¹⁷ (101-18) He hath had regard to the prayer of the humble: and he hath not despised their petition.¹⁸ (101-19) Let these things be written unto another generation: and the people that shall be created shall praise the Lord:¹⁹ (101-20) Because he hath looked forth from his high sanctuary: from heaven the Lord hath looked upon the earth.²⁰ (101-21) That he might hear the groans of them that are in fetters: that he might release the children of the slain:²¹ (101-22) That they may declare the name of the Lord in Sion: and his praise in Jerusalem;²² (101-23) When the people assemble together, and kings, to serve the Lord.

²³ (101-24) He answered him in the way of his strength: Declare unto me the fewness of my days.²⁴ (101-25) Call me not away in the midst of my days: thy years are unto generation and generation.²⁵ (101-26) In the beginning, O Lord, thou foundedst the earth: and the heavens are the works of thy hands.²⁶ (101-27) They shall perish but thou remainest: and all of them shall grow old like a garment: And as a vesture thou shalt change them, and they shall be changed.²⁷ (101-28) But thou art always the selfsame, and thy years shall not fail.²⁸ (101-29) The children of thy servants shall continue and their seed shall be directed for ever.