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Domine exaudi. Psal. 102.

HEare my prayer, O Lord: and let my crying come vnto thee.

Hide not thy face from mee in the time of my trouble: encline thine eares vnto mee when I call, O heare mee, and that right soone.

For my dayes are consumed a∣way like smoke: and my bones are burnt vp as it were a firebrand.

My heart is smitten downe, and withered like grasse: so that I forget to eate my bread.

For the voice of my groning: my bones will scarse cleaue to my flesh.

I am become like a pelicane in the wildernes: and like an Owle that is in the desart.

I haue watched, and am euen as it were a sparrow: that sitteth alone vpon the house top.

Mine enemies reuile me all the day long: and they that are mad vpon me, are sworne together against me.

For I haue eaten ashes as it were bread: and mingled my drinke with weeping.

And that because of thine indignation and wrath: for thou hast taken me vp, and cast me downe.

My dayes are gone like a shadowe: and I am withered like grasse.

But thou (O Lord) shall endure for euer: and thy remem∣brance thoughout all generations.

Thou shalt arise and haue mercie vpon Sion: for it is time that thou haue mercie vpon her, yea, the time is come.

And why? thy seruants thinke vpon her stones: and it pi∣tieth them to see her in the dust.

The heathen shall feare thy Name, O Lord: and all the kings of the earth thy maicstie.

When the Lord shall build vp Sion: and when his glorie shall appeare.

When hee turneth him vnto the prayer of the poore desti∣tute: and des••iseth not their desire.

This shalbe written for those that come after: and the peo∣ple which shalbe borne shall praise the Lord.

For he hath looked downe from his sanctuarie: out of the heauen did the Lord behold the earth.

That he might heare the mournings of such as be in capti∣uitie: and deliuer the children appointed vnto death.

That they may declare the name of the Lord in Sion: and his worship at Hierusalem.

When the people are gathered together: & the kingdomes also serue the Lord.

He brought downe my strength in my iourney: and shorte∣ned my dayes.

But I said, O my God, take me not away in the middest of mine age: as for thy yeeres, they endure throughout all ge∣nerations.

Thou Lord in the beginning hast laied the foundation of the earth: and the heauens are the worke of thy hands.

They shall perish, but thou shalt endure: they all shall ware old as doeth a garment.

And as a vesture shalt thou change them, and they shall be changed: but thou art the same, and thy yeres shall not faile.

The children of thy seruants shall continue: and their seed shall stand fast in thy sight.

Notes

• Morning prayer.