The fift penitential Psalme.
the 7. key.
A sinner in affliction of mind prayeth God to deliuer him, 10 desolate of al other helpe. 13. conceiueth comforth in Gods eternal goodnes, and singular mercie, in redeming mankind, and propagating the Church. 24. Prayeth to be made mature in vertue before he dye, that he may liue with God: 26. who only and wholly being immutable, establisheth his seruantes for euer.
1 The prayer of the poore, when he shal be anxious, and shal make his petition before our Lord.
2 LORD heare my prayer: and let my crie come to thee.
3 Turne not away thy face from me: in what day soeuer I am in tribulation, incline thine eare to me. In what day soeuer I shal inuocate thee, heare me speedely.
4 Because my dayes haue vanished as smoke: and my bones are withered as a drie burnt firebrand.
5 I am striken as grasse, and my hart is withered: because I haue forgotten to eate my bread.
6 For the voyce of my groning, my bone hath cleaued to my flesh.
7 I am become like a pellicane of the wildernes: I am become as a nightcrow in the house.
8 I haue watched, and am become as a sparow solitarie in the housetoppe.
9 Al the day did mine enemies vpbrayde me: and they that praysed me, sware against me.
10 Because I did eate ashes as bread, & mingled my drinke with weeping.
11 At the face of thy wrath and indignation: because lifting me vp thou hast throwne me downe.
12 My daies haue declined as a shadow: and I am withered as grasse.
13 But thou ô Lord endurest for euer: and thy memorial in generation and generation.
14 Thou rysing vp shal haue mercie on Sion: because it is time to haue mercie on it, because the time cometh.
15 Because the stones therof haue pleased thy seruantes: and they shal haue pittie on the earth therof.
16 And the Gentiles shal feare thy name ô Lord, and al the kinges of the earth thy glorie.
17 Because our Lord hath built Sion: and he shal be seene in his glorie.
18 He hath had respect to the prayer of the humble: and he hath not despised their petition.
19 Let these thinges be written vnto an other generation: and the people, that shal be created, shal praise our Lord.
20 Because he hath lookedforth from his high holie place: our Lord from heauen hath looked vpon the earth.
21 That he might heare the gronings of the fettered: that he might loose the children of them that are slayne:
22 That they may shewforth the name of our Lord in Sion: and his praise in Ierusalem.
23 In the assembling of the people together in one, and kinges to serue our Lord.
24 He answered him in the way of his strength: Shew me the fewnes of my daies.
25 Cal me not backe in the halfe of my daies: thy yeares are vnto generation and generation.
26 In the beginning ô Lord thou didst found the earth: and the heauens are the workes of thy hands.
27 They shal perish, but thou art permanent: and they shal al waxe old as a garment. And as a vesture thou shalt change them, and they shal be changed:
28 but thou art the selfe same, and thy yeares shal not faile.
39 The children of thy seruantes shal inhabite: and their seede shal be directed for euer.