3 For my days are consumed in smoke, And my bones are burned like a brand. 4 Smitten like herbage and dried up is my heart, For I have forgotten to eat my bread. 5 Because of the noise of my groaning, My bones stick to my flesh. 6 I am like a pelican of the desert, I am become like an owl of the ruins. 7 I am sleepless, And am become like a sparrow lonely on the roof. 8 All day long my enemies reproach me, They that are mad at me curse by me. 9 For ashes like bread have I eaten, And my drink with tears have I mingled. 10 Because of Thy indignation and Thy wrath, For Thou hast caught me up and flung me away 11 My days are like a long-drawn-out shadow, And I like herbage am dried up. 12 But Thou, Jehovah, sittest enthroned for ever, And Thy memorial is to generation after generation. 13 Thou, Thou shalt arise, shalt pity Zion, For it is time to show her favour, For the appointed time is come. 14 For Thy servants delight in her stones, And [to] her dust they show favour. 15 And the nations shall fear the name of Jehovah, And all the kings of the earth His glory, 16 Because Jehovah has built up Zion, He has been seen in His glory, 17 He has turned to the prayer of the destitute, And has not despised their prayer. 18 This shall be written for the generation after, And a people [yet] to be created shall praise Jah. 19 Because He has looked down from His holy height, Jehovah has gazed from heaven upon the earth, 20 To hear the sighing of the captive, To free the children of death, 21 That they may tell in Zion the name of Jehovah, And His praise in Jerusalem, 22 When the peoples are assembled together, And the kingdoms to serve Jehovah. 23 He has brought down my strength in the way, He has cut short my days. 24 I said, "My God, take me not away at the half of my days," [Since] Thy years endure through all generations. 25 Of old Thou didst found the earth, And the heavens are the work of Thy hands. 26 They, they shall perish, but Thou, Thou shalt continue, And all of them like a garment shall wear out, Like a robe shalt Thou change them, and they shall be changed. 27 But Thou art He, And Thy years shall never end. 28 The sons of Thy servants shall dwell, And their seed shall be established before Thee.