6 I resemble a apelican of the wilderness;
I have become like an owl of the waste places.
7 I alie awake,
I have become like a lonely bird on a roof.
8 My enemies ahave reproached me all day long;
Those who bridicule me cswear against me.
9 For I have eaten ashes like bread
And amixed my drinks with weeping
10 aBecause of Your indignation and Your wrath,
For You have blifted me up and cast me away.
11 My days are like an aoutstretched shadow,
And as for me, I bdry up like grass.
12 But You, O Yahweh, aabide forever,
And the bremembrance of Your name from generation to generation.
13 You will aarise and have bcompassion on Zion—
For cit is time to be gracious to it,
For the dappointed time has come.
14 For Your slaves find pleasure in its stones
And show grace to its dust—
15 So the anations will fear the name of Yahweh
And ball the kings of the earth Your glory.
16 For Yahweh has abuilt up Zion;
He has bappeared in His glory.
17 He has aturned toward the prayer of the destitute
And has not despised their prayer.
18 This will be awritten for the bgeneration to come,
And ca people yet to be created will praise Yah.