1 A Prayer of the man who is in trouble, when he is overcome, and puts his grief before the Lord.
2 Give ear to my prayer, O Lord, and let my cry come to you.
3 Let not your face be veiled from me in the day of my trouble; give ear to me, and let my cry be answered quickly.
4 My days are wasted like smoke, and my bones are burned up as in a fire.
5 My heart is broken; it has become dry and dead like grass, so that I give no thought to food.
6 Because of the voice of my sorrow, my flesh is wasted to the bone.
7 I am like a bird living by itself in the waste places; like the night-bird in a waste of sand.
