Psalms 102:3-28 For my dayes are consumed awaye lyke smoke, and my bones are brent vp, as it were a fyre brande.

Great⁽ⁱ⁾ ³ For my dayes are consumed awaye lyke smoke, and my bones are brent vp, as it were a fyre brande. ⁴ My hert is smytten downe and wythered lyke grasse, so that I forget to eate my bred. ⁵ For the voyce of my gronynge, my bone wyll scarse cleue to my flesh. ⁶ I am become lyke a Pellycane of the wildernes, and lyke an owle that is in the deserte. ⁷ I haue watched, & am euen as it were a sparow, that sitteth alone vpon the house toppe. ⁸ Myne enemyes reuyle me all the daye longe: & they that are madd vpon me, are sworne together agaynst me. ⁹ For I haue eaten ashes as at were bred, and mengled my drynck with wepynge. ¹⁰ And that because of thyne indignacyon & wrath, for thou hast taken me vp, & cast me downe. ¹¹ My dayes are gone lyke a shadowe, and I am wythered lyke grasse. ¹² But thou, O Lord, shalt endure for euer, and thy remembraunce thorow out all generacyons. ¹³ Thou shalt aryse, & haue mercy vpon Sion, for it is tyme that thou haue mercy vpon her, yee the tyme is come. ¹⁴ And why: thy seruauntes thinck vpon her stones, and it pitieth them to se her in the dust. ¹⁵ The Heathen shall feare thy name, O Lord, & all the kynges of the earth thy maiesty. ¹⁶ Whan the Lord shall buylde vp Sion, and whan his glory shal apeare: ¹⁷ Whan he turneth him vnto the prayer of the poore destitute, & despyseth not theyr desyre. ¹⁸ This shalbe wrytten for those that come after: & the people which shalbe borne, shall prayse the Lord. ¹⁹ For he hath loked downe from his Sanctuary, out of the heauen dyd the Lorde beholde the earth. ²⁰ That he might heare the mournynges of soch as be in captiuite, and delyuer the chyldren appoynted vnto death. ²¹ That they maye declare the name of the Lorde in Sion, and his worshipe at Ierusalem: ²² When the people are gathered together, & the kyngdomes also to serue the Lorde. ²³ He brought downe my strength in my iourney, and shortened my dayes. ²⁴ But I sayed: O my God, take me not awaye in the myddest of myne age: as for thy yeares, they endure thorow out all generacions. ²⁵ Thou Lorde in the begynnyng hast layed the foundacyon of the earth, and the heauens are the worcke of thy handes. ²⁶ They shall perishe, but thou shalt endure: they all shall wexe olde as doth a garment, ²⁷ and as a vesture shalt thou chaunge them, and they shalbe chaunged. But thou art the same, and thy yeares shall not fayle. ²⁸ The children of thy seruauntes shall contynue, & their sede shall stonde fast in thy syght.