1 ا سْمَعْ يا اللهُ صَلاتِي. لَيتَ استِغاثَتِي تَصِلُ إلَى أُذُنَيكَ.

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

2 ل ا تَتَجاهَلْنِي فِي وَقتِ ضِيقِي هَذا! أمِلْ إلَيَّ أُذُنَكَ حِينَ أستَنجِدُ بِكَ، وَأسرِعْ إلَى مَعُونَتِي.

Hide not Your face from me in the day when I am in distress! Incline Your ear to me; in the day when I call, answer me speedily.

3 ت َصاعَدَتْ كَالدُّخانِ حَياتِي. وَالتُهِمَتْ عِظامِي كَما بِلَهَبٍ مُتَّقِدٍ.

For my days consume away like smoke, and my bones burn like a firebrand or like a hearth.

4 ك َعُشبٍ يابِسٍ ذَبُلَ قَلْبِي، لأنِّي نَسِيتُ أنْ آكُلَ طَعامِي.

My heart is smitten like grass and withered, so that I forget to eat my food.

5 ت َفَجَّعْتُ طَوِيلاً، حَتَّى تَدَلَّى جِلدِي مِنْ عِظامِي.

By reason of my loud groaning my flesh cleaves to my bones.

6 و َحِيدٌ أنا كَبُومَةِ الصَّحراءِ، كَبُومَةٍ بَينَ الخِرَبِ.

I am like a melancholy pelican or vulture of the wilderness; I am like a owl of the waste places.

7 ب َقِيتُ مُؤَرَّقاً، أنا كَعُصفُورٍ وَحِيدٍ عَلَى السَّطحِ.

I am sleepless and lie awake, like a bereaved sparrow alone on the housetop.

8 ع َلَى الدَّوامِ يُهِينُنِي أعدائِي، بِي يَهزَأُونَ وَإيّايَ يَلعَنُونَ.

My adversaries taunt and reproach me all the day; and they who are angry with me use my name as a curse.

9 ل َمْ أتَناوَلْ غَيرَ الحُزنِ طَعاماً، وَلا غَيرَ الدُّمُوعِ شَراباً.

For I have eaten the ashes as if they were bread and have mingled my drink with weeping

10 ه َذا كُلُّهُ صارَ بِسَبَبِ غَضَبِكَ العَظِيمِ. فَقَدِ التَقَطْتَنِي وَقَذَفْتَ بِي بَعِيداً.

Because of Your indignation and Your wrath, for You have taken me up and cast me away.

11 م ا حَياتِي إلّا ظِلٌّ يَخبُو. وَأنا أذبُلُ كَعُشبٍ يابِسٍ.

My days are like an evening shadow that stretches out and declines; and I am withered like grass.

12 أ مّا أنتَ يا اللهُ فَسَتَظَلُّ إلَى الأبَدِ مُتَوَّجاً! وَسَيَظَلُّ ذِكرُ اسْمِكَ جِيلاً بَعدَ جِيلٍ!

But You, O Lord, are enthroned forever; and the fame of Your name endures to all generations.

13 أ ظهِرْ لِصِهْيَوْنَ رَحْمَتَكَ. آنَ أوانُ تَعزِيَتِها، وَقتُها حانَ.

You will arise and have mercy and loving-kindness for Zion, for it is time to have pity and compassion for her; yes, the set time has come.

14 ي َتُوقُ خُدّامُكَ إلَى رُؤيَةِ حِجارَتِها. وَيُحِبُّونَ غُبارَ شَوارِعِها!

For Your servants take pleasure in the stones and show pity for her dust.

15 ع ِندَئِذٍ سَتَخافُ الشُّعُوبُ الأُخرَى اسْمَ اللهِ. وَيُكرِمُ مُلُوكُهُمْ مَجدَكَ!

So the nations shall fear and worshipfully revere the name of the Lord, and all the kings of the earth Your glory.

16 ل أنَّ اللهَ سَيُعِيدُ بِناءَ صِهْيَوْنَ، وَسَيَظهَرُ هُناكَ فِي مَجدِهِ!

When the Lord builds up Zion, He will appear in His glory;

17 ي َنتَبِهُ اللهُ إلَى صَلَواتِ المُحتاجِينَ، وَلا يَتَجاهَلُها.

He will regard the plea of the destitute and will not despise their prayer.

18 ا كتُبُوا هَذِهِ الأُمُورَ لِلأجيالِ القادِمَةِ، لِكَي يُسَبِّحَ ياه أُناسٌ لَمْ يُولَدُوا بَعْدُ.

Let this be recorded for the generation yet unborn, that a people yet to be created shall praise the Lord.

19 م ِنْ عَرشِهِ السّامِي فِي السَّماءِ أطَلَّ اللهُ عَلَى الأرْضِ.

For He looked down from the height of His sanctuary, from heaven did the Lord behold the earth,

20 أ طَلَّ لِكَي يَسمَعَ أنّاتِ الأسرَى وَيُحَرِّرَ المَحكُومَ عَلَيهِمْ بِالمَوْتِ،

To hear the sighing and groaning of the prisoner, to loose those who are appointed to death,

21 ل ِكَي يَتَحَدَّثُوا عَنِ اسْمَ اللهِ فِي صِهْيَوْنَ، وَيُقَدِّمُوا تَسابِيحَهُ فِي القُدسِ

So that men may declare the name of the Lord in Zion and His praise in Jerusalem

22 ع ِندَ اجتماعِ الشُّعُوبِ وَالمَمالِكِ مَعاً لِيَعبُدُوا اللهَ.

When peoples are gathered together, and the kingdoms, to worship and serve the Lord.

23 ت َخُورُ عَلَى الطَّرِيقِ قُوَّتِي، وَتُقَصَّرُ حَياتِي!

He has afflicted and weakened my strength, humbling and bringing me low in the way; He has shortened my days.

24 ف َأقُولُ: «يا إلَهِي، لا تَأخُذْ حَياتِي فِي مُنتَصَفِ عُمْرِي، يا مَنْ تَمتَدُّ سِنينُكَ عَبرَ جَميعِ الأجيالِ.

I said, O my God, take me not away in the midst of my days, You Whose years continue throughout all generations.

25 م ِنْ قَدِيمٍ وَضَعْتَ أساساتِ الأرْضِ فِي البَدْءِ. وَيَداكَ هُما اللَّتانِ صَنَعَتا السَّماواتِ.

At the beginning You existed and laid the foundations of the earth; the heavens are the work of Your hands.

26 ه ِيَ سَتَفنَى، أمّا أنتَ فَتَبقَى. هِيَ سَتَبلَى كَما يَبلَى الثَّوبُ. كَرِداءٍ سَتَطوِيها، فَتَمضِي بَعِيداً!

They shall perish, but You shall remain and endure; yes, all of them shall wear out and become old like a garment. Like clothing You shall change them, and they shall be changed and pass away.

27 أ مّا أنتَ فَلا تَتَغَيَّرُ أبَداً، وَلا نِهايَةَ لِسَنَواتِ حَياتِكَ.

But You remain the same, and Your years shall have no end.

28 أ بْناءُ خُدّامِكَ سَيَأتُونَ وَيَمضُونَ، وَسَيَأتِي أبْناءُ خُدّامِكَ لِكَي يَخدِمُوكَ!»

The children of Your servants shall dwell safely and continue, and their descendants shall be established before You.