Psalms 102:1-11

11Lord, please hear my prayer! Listen to me when I call to you for help.

2Now that I am in trouble, please do not turn away from me. Listen carefully to me. Now that I am calling to you for help, please answer me quickly.

3My life is quickly disappearing, like smoke from a fire. My bones hurt very much, as if they were burning in an oven.

4I am very weak and upset, like dry grass that will soon die. I even forget to eat my food.

5I cry aloud with pain, so that I am just skin and bones.

6I am like a wild bird in the desert. I am like an owl in the wilderness.

7I am awake in the night, like a bird that sits alone on the roof.

8All day my enemies insult me. They laugh at me and they use my name as a curse.

9Because you are so angry with me, I eat ashes as my food. My tears drop into the water that I drink. It seems that you have picked me up, and then you have thrown me away.

11My days are disappearing, like a shadow in the evening. Like dry grass, I will soon die.