3
Incline thine eares to me, make hast
to heare me when I call:
For as the smoake doth fade, so doe
my dayes consume and fall.
4
And as a harth my bones are burnt,
my heart is smitten dead:
And withers as the grasse, that I
forget to eate my bread.
5
By reason of my groning voice
my bones cleaue to my skin:
6
As Pellican in wildernesse
such case now am I in.
And as an Owle in desart is,
loe I am such a one:
7
I watch and as a Spa••row on
the house top am alone.
8
Loe daily in reproachfull wise
mine enemies doe me scorne:
And they that doe against me rage,
against me they haue sworne.
9
Surely with ashes as with bread
my hunger I haue fild:
And mingled haue my drinke with teares
that from mine e••es haue stild,
10
Because of thy displeasure Lord,
thy wrath and thy disdaine:
For thou hast lifted me aloft,
and cast me downe againe.
11
The dayes wherein I passe my life
are like the fleeting shade:
And I am withered like the grasse,
that soone away doth fade.
12
But thou O Lord for euer dost
remaine in steady place:
And thy remembrance euer doth,
abide from race to race.
The second part.
13
Thou wilt a••ise, and mercy thou
to Sion wilt extend:
The time of mercy, now the time
foreset is come to end.
14
For euen in the stones thereof
thy seruants doe delight:
And on the dust thereof they h••••e
compassion in their sprite.
15
Then shall the heathen people feare
the Lords most holy Name:
And all the Kings on earth shall dread
thy glory and thy fame.
16
Then when the Lord, the mighty God
againe shall Sion reare:
And then when he most nobly in
his glory shall appeare.
17
To prayer of the desolate,
when he himselfe shall bend:
When he shall not disdaine vnto
their prayers to attend.
18
This shall be written for the age
that after shall succeed:
The people yet vncreated,
the Lords renowne shall spread.
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For he from his high Sanctuary
hath looked downe below:
And out of heauen hath the Lord
beheld the earth also.
20
That of the mourning captiue he
might heare the wofull cry:
And that he might deliuer those
that damned are to die.
21
That they in Sion may declare
the Lords most holy Name:
And in Ierusalem set forth
the prayses of the same.
22
Then when the people of the Land,
and Kingdomes with accord
Shall be assembled for to doe
their seruice to the Lord.
The third part.
23
My former force and strength he hath
abated in the way▪
And shorter he hath cut my dayes,
thus I therefore did say.
24
My God, in midst of all my dayes,
now take me not away:
Thy yeares endure eternally,
from age to age for aye.
25
Thou the foundation of the earth
before all times hast laid:
And Lord the heauens are the worke
which thine owne hand•• haue made.
26
Yea, they shall perish and decay,
but thou shalt tarrie still:
And they shall all in time waxe old,
euen as a garment will.
27
Thou as a garment shalt them change▪
and changed shall they be:
But thou dost still abide the same,
thy yeares doe neuer flee.
28
The children of thy seruants shall
continually endure:
And in thy sight their happy seed
for euer shall stand sure.