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1 Give ear to my prayer, O Lord, and let my cry come to you.
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1 Hear my prayer, O LORD; let my cry for help come to you.
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2 Let not your face be veiled from me in the day of my trouble; give ear to me, and let my cry be answered quickly.
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2 Do not hide your face from me when I am in distress. Turn your ear to me; when I call, answer me quickly.
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3 My days are wasted like smoke, and my bones are burned up as in a fire.
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3 For my days vanish like smoke; my bones burn like glowing embers.
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4 My heart is broken; it has become dry and dead like grass, so that I give no thought to food.
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4 My heart is blighted and withered like grass; I forget to eat my food.
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5 Because of the voice of my sorrow, my flesh is wasted to the bone.
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5 Because of my loud groaning I am reduced to skin and bones.
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6 I am like a bird living by itself in the waste places; like the night-bird in a waste of sand.
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6 I am like a desert owl, like an owl among the ruins.
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7 I keep watch like a bird by itself on the house-top.
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7 I lie awake; I have become like a bird alone on a roof.
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8 My haters say evil of me all day; those who are violent against me make use of my name as a curse.
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8 All day long my enemies taunt me; those who rail against me use my name as a curse.
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9 I have had dust for bread and my drink has been mixed with weeping:
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9 For I eat ashes as my food and mingle my drink with tears
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10 Because of your passion and your wrath, for I have been lifted up and then made low by you.
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10 because of your great wrath, for you have taken me up and thrown me aside.
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11 My days are like a shade which is stretched out; I am dry like the grass.
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11 My days are like the evening shadow; I wither away like grass.
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12 But you, O Lord, are eternal; and your name will never come to an end.
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12 But you, O LORD, sit enthroned forever; your renown endures through all generations.
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13 You will again get up and have mercy on Zion: for the time has come for her to be comforted.
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13 You will arise and have compassion on Zion, for it is time to show favor to her; the appointed time has come.
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14 For your servants take pleasure in her stones, looking with love on her dust.
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14 For her stones are dear to your servants; her very dust moves them to pity.
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15 So the nations will give honour to the name of the Lord, and all the kings of the earth will be in fear of his glory:
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15 The nations will fear the name of the LORD, all the kings of the earth will revere your glory.
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16 When the Lord has put up the walls of Zion, and has been been in his glory;
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16 For the LORD will rebuild Zion and appear in his glory.
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17 When he has given ear to the prayer of the poor, and has not put his request on one side.
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17 He will respond to the prayer of the destitute; he will not despise their plea.
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18 This will be put in writing for the coming generation, and the people of the future will give praise to the Lord.
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18 Let this be written for a future generation, that a people not yet created may praise the LORD:
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19 For from his holy place the Lord has seen, looking down on the earth from heaven;
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19 "The LORD looked down from his sanctuary on high, from heaven he viewed the earth,
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20 Hearing the cry of the prisoner, making free those for whom death is ordered;
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20 to hear the groans of the prisoners and release those condemned to death."
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21 So that they may give out the name of the Lord in Zion, and his praise in Jerusalem;
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21 So the name of the LORD will be declared in Zion and his praise in Jerusalem
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22 When the peoples are come together, and the kingdoms, to give worship to the Lord.
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22 when the peoples and the kingdoms assemble to worship the LORD.
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23 He has taken my strength from me in the way; he has made short my days.
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23 In the course of my life he broke my strength; he cut short my days.
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24 I will say, O my God, take me not away before my time; your years go on through all generations:
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24 So I said: "Do not take me away, O my God, in the midst of my days; your years go on through all generations.
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25 In the past you put the earth on its base, and the heavens are the work of your hands.
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25 In the beginning you laid the foundations of the earth, and the heavens are the work of your hands.
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26 They will come to an end, but you will still go on; they all will become old like a coat, and like a robe they will be changed:
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26 They will perish, but you remain; they will all wear out like a garment. Like clothing you will change them and they will be discarded.
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27 But you are the unchanging One, and your years will have no end.
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27 But you remain the same, and your years will never end.
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28 The children of your servants will have a safe resting-place, and their seed will be ever before you.
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28 The children of your servants will live in your presence; their descendants will be established before you."
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