Psalms 101

1 Προσευχὴ τῷ πτωχῷ, ὅταν ἀκηδιάσῃ, καὶ ἐναντίον Κυρίου ἐκχέῃ τὴν δέησιν αὐτοῦ.

2 Κύριε εἰσάκουσον τῆς προσευχῆς μου, καὶ ἡ κραυγή μου πρὸς σὲ ἐλθέτω.

3 Μὴ ἀποστρέψῃς τὸ πρόσωπόν σου ἀπʼ ἐμοῦ· ἐν ᾗ ἂν ἡμέρᾳ θλίβομαι, κλῖνον πρὸς μὲ τὸ οὖς σου· ἐν ᾗ ἂν ἡμέρᾳ ἐπικαλέσωμαί σε, ταχὺ εἰσάκουσόν μου.

4 Ὅτι ἐξέλιπον ὡσεὶ καπνὸς αἱ ἡμέραι μου, καὶ τὰ ὀστᾶ μου ὡσεὶ φρύγιον συνεφρύγησαν.

5 Ἐπλήγην ὡσεὶ χόρτος, καὶ ἐξηράνθη ἡ καρδία μου, ὅτι ἐπελαθόμην τοῦ φαγεῖν τὸν ἄρτον μου.

6 Ἀπὸ φωνῆς τοῦ στεναγμοῦ μου, ἐκολλήθη τὸ ὀστοῦν μου τῇ σαρκί μου.

7 Ὡμοιώθην πελεκᾶνι ἐρημικῷ, ἐγενήθην ὡσεὶ νυκτικόραξ ἐν οἰκοπέδῳ.

8 Ἠγρύπνησα, καὶ ἐγενήθην ὡσεὶ στρουθίον μονάζον ἐπὶ δώματι.

9 Ὅλην τὴν ἡμέραν ὠνείδιζόν με οἱ ἐχθροί μου, καὶ οἱ ἐπαινοῦντές με κατʼ ἐμοῦ ὤμνυον.

10 Ὅτι σποδὸν ὡσεὶ ἄρτον ἔφαγον, καὶ τὸ πόμα μου μετὰ κλαυθμοῦ ἐκίρνων,

11 ἀπὸ προσώπου τῆς ὀργῆς σου καὶ τοῦ θυμοῦ σου, ὅτι ἐπάρας κατέῤῥαξάς με.

12 Αἱ ἡμέραι μου ὡσεὶ σκιὰ ἐκλίθησαν, κᾀγὼ ὡσεὶ χόρτος ἐξηράνθην.

13 Σὺ δέ Κύριε εἰς τὸν αἰῶνα μένεις, καὶ τὸ μνημόσυνόν σου εἰς γενεὰν καὶ γενεάν.

14 Σὺ ἀναστὰς οἰκτειρήσεις τὴν Σιὼν, ὅτι καιρὸς τοῦ οἰκτειρῆσαι αὐτὴν, ὅτι ἥκει καιρός.

15 Ὅτι εὐδόκησαν οἱ δοῦλοί σου τοὺς λίθους αὐτῆς, καὶ τὸν χοῦν αὐτῆς οἰκτειρήσουσι.

16 Καὶ φοβηθήσονται τὰ ἔθνη τὸ ὄνομά σου Κύριε, καὶ πάντες οἱ βασιλεῖς τὴν δόξαν σου.

17 Ὅτι οἰκοδομήσει Κύριος τὴν Σιὼν, καὶ ὀφθήσεται ἐν τῇ δόξῃ αὐτοῦ.

18 Ἐπέβλεψεν ἐπὶ τὴν προσευχὴν τῶν ταπεινῶν, καὶ οὐκ ἐξουδένωσε τὴν δέησιν αὐτῶν.

19 Γραφήτω αὕτη εἰς γενεὰν ἑτέραν, καὶ λαὸς ὁ κτιζόμενος αἰνέσει τὸν Κύριον.

20 Ὅτι ἐξέκυψεν ἐξ ὕψους ἁγίου αὐτοῦ, Κύριος ἐξ οὐρανοῦ ἐπὶ τὴν γῆν ἐπέβλεψε,

21 τοῦ ἀκοῦσαι τοῦ στεναγμοῦ τῶν πεπεδημένων, τοῦ λῦσαι τοὺς υἱοὺς τῶν τεθανατωμένων,

22 τοῦ ἀναγγεῖλαι ἐν Σιὼν τὸ ὄνομα Κυρίου, καὶ τὴν αἴνεσιν αὐτοῦ ἐν Ἱερουσαλήμ·

23 ἐν τῷ συναχθῆναι λαοὺς ἐπιτοαυτὸ, καὶ βασιλεῖς τοῦ δουλεύειν τῷ Κυρίῳ.

24 Ἀπεκρίθη αὐτῷ ἐν ὁδῷ ἰσχύος αὐτοῦ, τὴν ὀλιγότητα τῶν ἡμερῶν μου ἀνάγγειλόν μοι·

25 μὴ ἀναγάγῃς με ἐν ἡμίσει ἡμερῶν μου, ἐν γενεᾷ γενεῶν τὰ ἔτη σου.

26 Κατʼ ἀρχὰς τὴν γῆν σὺ Κύριε ἐθεμελίωσας, καὶ ἔργα τῶν χειρῶν σου εἰσὶν οἱ οὐρανοί.

27 Αὐτοὶ ἀπολοῦνται, σὺ δὲ διαμένεις· καὶ πάντες ὡς ἱμάτιον παλαιωθήσονται, καὶ ὡσεὶ περιβόλαιον ἑλίξεις αὐτοὺς, καὶ ἀλλαγήσονται.

28 Σὺ δὲ ὁ αὐτὸς εἶ, καὶ τὰ ἔτη σου οὐκ ἐκλείψουσιν·

29 Οἱ υἱοῖ τῶν δούλων σου κατασκηνώσουσι, καὶ τὸ σπέρμα αὐτῶν εἰς τὸν αἰῶνα κατευθυνθήσεται.

1 A Prayer for the Poor; when he is deeply afflicted, and pours out his supplication before the Lord.

2 Hear my prayer, O Lord, and let my cry come to thee.

3 Turn not away thy face from me: in the day when I am afflicted, incline thine ear to me: in the day when I shall call upon thee, speedily hear me.

4 For my days have vanished like smoke, and my bones have been parched like a stick.

5 I am blighted like grass, and my heart is dried up; for I have forgotten to eat my bread.

6 By reason of the voice of my groaning, my bone has cleaved to my flesh.

7 I have become like a pelican of the wilderness;

8 I have become like an owl in a ruined house. I have watched, and am become as a sparrow dwelling alone on a roof.

9 All the day long mine enemies have reproached me; and they that praised me have sworn against me.

10 For I have eaten ashes as it were bread, and mingled my drink with weeping;

11 because of thine anger and thy wrath: for thou hast lifted me up, and dashed me down.

12 My days have declined like a shadow; and I am withered like grass.

13 But thou, Lord, endurest for ever, and thy memorial to generation and generation.

14 Thou shalt arise, and have mercy upon Sion: for it is time to have mercy upon her, for the set time is come.

15 For thy servants have taken pleasure in her stones, and they shall pity her dust.

16 So the nations shall fear thy name, O Lord, and all kings thy glory.

17 For the Lord shall build up Sion, and shall appear in his glory.

then shall be.

18 He has had regard to the prayer of the lowly, and has not despised their petition.

19 Let this be written for another generation; and the people that shall be created shall praise the Lord.

20 For he has looked out from the height of his sanctuary; the Lord looked upon the earth from heaven;

21 to hear the groaning of the fettered ones, to loosen the sons of the slain;

22 to proclaim the name of the Lord in Sion, and his praise in Jerusalem;

23 when the people are gathered together, and the kings, to serve the Lord.

24 He answered him in the way of his strength: tell me the fewness of my days.

25 Take me not away in the midst of my days: thy years are through all generations.

26 In the beginning thou, O Lord, didst lay the foundation of the earth; and the heavens are the works of thine hands.

plural.

27 They shall perish, but thou remainest: and they all shall wax old as a garment; and as a vesture shalt thou fold them, and they shall be changed.

28 But thou art the same, and thy years shall not fail.

29 The children of thy servants shall dwell securely , and their seed shall prosper for ever.

be directed aright.