Psalm 102 — Psalms 102:4–10

My heart is smitten like grass, and withered;
For I forget to eat my bread.

By reason of the voice of my groaning
My bones cleave to my flesh.

I am like a pelican of the wilderness;
I am become as an owl of the waste places.

I watch, and am become like a sparrow
That is alone upon the house-top.

Mine enemies reproach me all the day;
They that are mad against me do curse by me.

For I have eaten ashes like bread,
And mingled my drink with weeping,

Because of thine indignation and thy wrath:
For thou hast taken me up, and cast me away.