Do Not Hide Your Face from Me
A Prayer of the afflicted when he is faint and pours out his complaint before Yahweh.
aO Yahweh, hear my prayer!
And let my cry for help bcome to You.
2 aDo not hide Your face from me in the day of my distress;
bIncline Your ear to me;
In the day when I call aanswer me quickly.
3 For my days ahave vanished in smoke,
And my bbones have been scorched like a hearth.
4 My heart ahas been stricken like grass and it has bdried up,
Indeed, I cforget to eat my bread.
5 Because of the sound of my groaning
My abones cling to my flesh.
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.