For my days vanish like smoke My bones burn like glowing embers My heart is blinded and withered like grass I forget to eat my food Because of my loud groaning's I am reduced to skin and bones I'm like a desert owl, like an owl amoung the ruins I lye awake. All day long my enemies taunt me. But those who rail against me, use my name as a curse
Hear my prayer O Lord Let my cry for help come to you Do not hide your face from me when I am in distress Turn ear to me when I call, answer me quickly For I eat ashes Because of your great wrath For you have taken me up My days are like the evening shadow, I wither like the Grass
The Lord is compassionate and gracious Slow to anger abounding in Love He will not always accuse, nor will he harbor His anger forever He does not treat us according as our sins deserve Or repay us according to our antiquities. For as high as the heaven is above the earth. So great as his love for those that fear Him As far as the east is from the west So far as he removed our transgressions from us As a father has compassion on his children So the Lord has compassion on those who fear him For he knows that we are poor, he remembers that we are DUST!