Douay Bible - Psalms Chapter 101

Psalms 101:1
The prayer of the poor man, when he was anxious, and poured out his supplication before the Lord.

Psalms 101:2
Hear, O Lord, my prayer: and let my cry come to thee.

Psalms 101:3
Turn not away thy face from me: in the day when I am in trouble, incline thy ear to me. In what day soever I shall call upon thee, hear me speedily.

Psalms 101:4
For my days are vanished like smoke: and my bones are grown dry like fuel for the fire.

Psalms 101:5
I am smitten as grass, and my heart is withered: because I forgot to eat my bread.

Psalms 101:6
Through the voice of my groaning, my bone hath cleaved to my flesh.

Psalms 101:7
I am become like to a pelican of the wilderness: I am like a night raven in the house.

Psalms 101:8
I have watched, and am become as a sparrow all alone on the housetop.

Psalms 101:9
All the day long my enemies reproached me: and they that praised me did swear against me.

Psalms 101:10
For I did eat ashes like bread, and mingled my drink with weeping.

Psalms 101:11
Because of thy anger and indignation: for having lifted me up thou hast thrown me down.

Psalms 101:12
My days have declined like a shadow, and I am withered like grass.

Psalms 101:13
But thou, O Lord, endurest for ever: and thy memorial to all generations.

Psalms 101:14
Thou shalt arise and have mercy on Sion: for it is time to have mercy on it, for the time is come.

Psalms 101:15
For the stones thereof have pleased thy servants: and they shall have pity on the earth thereof.

Psalms 101:16
And the gentiles shall fear thy name, O Lord, and all the kings of the earth thy glory.

Psalms 101:17
For the Lord hath built up Sion: and he shall be seen in his glory.

Psalms 101:18
He hath had regard to the prayer of the humble: and he hath not despised their petition.

Psalms 101:19
Let these things be written unto another generation: and the people that shall be created shall praise the Lord:

Psalms 101:20
Because he hath looked forth from his high sanctuary: from heaven the Lord hath looked upon the earth.

Psalms 101:21
That he might hear the groans of them that are in fetters: that he might release the children of the slain:

Psalms 101:22
That they may declare the name of the Lord in Sion: and his praise in Jerusalem;

Psalms 101:23
When the people assemble together, and kings, to serve the Lord.

Psalms 101:24
He answered him in the way of his strength: Declare unto me the fewness of my days.

Psalms 101:25
Call me not away in the midst of my days: thy years are unto generation and generation.

Psalms 101:26
In the beginning, O Lord, thou foundedst the earth: end the heavens are the works of thy hands.

Psalms 101:27
They shall perish but thou remainest: and all of them shall grow old like a garment: And as a vesture thou shalt change them, and they shall be changed.

Psalms 101:28
But thou art always the selfsame, and thy years shall not fail.

Psalms 101:29
The children of thy servants shall continue: and their seed shall be directed for ever.