Bshps PSA Chapter 102

102 A prayer of the afflicted when he was ouerwhelmed, and when he did powre out his petition before the face of God. Heare my prayer O God: and let my crying come in vnto thee. 2 Hyde not thy face from me in the day of my distresse: encline thine eare vnto me, heare me spedyly in the day that I call. 3 For my dayes are consumed away like smoke: and my bones are burnt vp as though they were a firebrande. 4 My heart is smitten downe and wythered lyke grasse: because I did forget to eate my bread. 5 Through the noyse of my gronyng: my bones wyll scase cleaue to my fleshe. 6 I am become lyke a Pellicane of the wildernesse, and like an Owle that is in the desert: 7 I watch, and am as it were a sparrowe that sitteth alone vpon the house toppe. 8 Myne enemies reuile me all the day long: and they that are in a rage against me, make their oth by me. 9 For I haue eaten asshes as it were bread, and mingled my drynke with weepyng, 10 because of thine indignation and wrath: for thou hast set me vp, and cast me downe. 11 My dayes fade away lyke a shadowe: and I am wythered lyke grasse. 12 But thou O God endurest for euer: and thy remembraunce throughout all generations. 13 Thou wylt aryse vp, thou wylt haue compassion vpon Sion: for it is tyme that thou haue mercie vpon her, for the tyme appoynted is come. 14 For thy seruauntes be well affected towarde her stones: and it pitieth them to see her in the dust. 15 And the heathen wyll feare thy name O God: and all the kynges of the earth thy glorious maiestie. 16 For God wyll buylde vp Sion: to be seene in his glorious maiestie. 17 He wyll regarde the prayer of the humble destitute of all helpe: and he wyll not dispise their prayer. 18 This shalbe written for those that come after: and the people which shalbe borne, shall prayse the Lorde. 19 For he hath loked downe from his high sanctuarie: out of heauen did God beholde the earth. 20 That he might heare the mourninges of such as be in captiuitie: and delyuer the children of death. 21 That they may declare the name of God in Sion: and his prayse at Hierusalem. 22 When people were gathered together, & kyngdomes to serue God: 23 he afflicted my strength in the way, he shortened my dayes. 24 But I say, O my God take me not away in the middest of myne age: as for thy yeres, they endure throughout all generations. 25 Thou hast before tyme layde the foundation of the earth: and the heauens are the worke of thy handes. 26 They shall perishe, but thou wylt remayne styll: they all shall waxe olde as doth a garment, and as a vesture thou wylt chaunge them, and they shalbe chaunged. 27 But thou art, and thy yeres can not fayle: 28 the children of thy seruauntes shal dwell, and their seede shalbe maynteyned in thy syght.