Domine, exaudi. Psal. cii.
O Hear my prayer, Lord, and let
my cry come unto thee:
[verse 2] In time of trouble do not hide
thy face away from me.
[verse 3] Incline thine ear to me, make haste
to hear me when I call:
For as the smoke doth fade, so do
my days consume and fall.
[verse 4] And as an hearth my bones are burnt,
my heart is smitten dead,
And withers like the grass, that I
forget to eat my bread.
[verse 5] By reason of my groaning voice
my bones cleave to my skin:
[verse 6] As pelicane in wilderness,
such case now am I in.
And as an owl in desert is,
so, I am such an one:
[verse 7] I watch, and as a sparrow on
the house-top am alone.
[verse 8] Lo, daily in reproachful wise
mine enemies do me scorn:
And they that do against me rage,
against me they have sworn.
[verse 9] Surely with ashes as with bread,
my hunger I have fill'd:
And mingled have my drink with tears
that from mine eyes have still'd.
[verse 10] Because of thy displeasure, Lord,
thy wrath and thy disdain:
For thou hast listed me aloft,
and cast me down again.
[verse 11] The days wherein I pass my life,
are like the fleeting shade:
And I am with'red like the grass
that soon away doth fade.
[verse 12] But thou, O Lord, for ever dost
remain in steady place:
And thy remembrance ever doth
abide from race to race.
The second part.
[verse 13] Thou wilt arise, and mercy thou
to Sion wilt extend:
The time of mercy, now the time
foreset is come to end.
[verse 14] For even in the stones thereof
thy servants do delight:
And on the dust thereof they have
compassion in their sprite.
[verse 15] Then shall the heathen people fear
the Lords most holy Name:
And all the kings on earth shall dread
thy glory and thy fame.
[verse 16] Then when the Lord the mighty God
again shall Sion rear:
And then when he most nobly in
his glory shall appear.
[verse 17] To prayer of the desolate
when he himself shall bend:
When he shall not disdain unto
their prayers to attend.
[verse 18] This shall be written for the age
that after shall succeed:
The people yet uncreated
the Lords renown shall spread.
[verse 19] For he from his high sanctuary
hath looked down below:
And out of heaven hath the Lord
beheld the earth also.
[verse 20] That of the mourning captive he
might hear the woful crie:
And that he might deliver those
that damned are to die.
[verse 21] That they in Sion may declare
the Lords most holy Name:
And in Jerusalem set forth
the praises of the same:
[verse 22] Then when the people of the land
and kingdoms with accord
Shall be assembled for to do
their service to the Lord.
The third part.
[verse 23] My former force of strength he hath
abated in the way:
And shorter he did out my days,
thus I therefore did say,
[verse 24] My God, in midst of all my days;
now take me not away:
Thy years endure eternally,
from age to age for ay.
[verse 25] Thou the foundations of the earth
before all times hast laid:
And Lord, the heavens are the work
which thine own hands have made,
[verse 26] Yea, they shall perish and decay,
but thou shalt tarry still:
And they shall all in time wax old
even as a garment will.
[verse 27] Thou as a garment shalt them change,
and changed shall they be:
But thou dost still abide the same,
thy years do never flee.
[verse 28] The children of thy servants shall
continually endure:
And in thy sight their happy seed
for ever shall stand sure.