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1 Prayer of a sufferer overcome by weakness and pouring out his complaint before ADONAI: ADONAI, hear my prayer! Let my cry for help reach you!
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1 Hear my prayer, O LORD; let my cry for help come to you.
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2 Don't hide your face from me when I am in such distress! Turn your ear toward me; when I call, be quick to reply!
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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 For my days are vanishing like smoke, my bones are burning like a furnace.
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3 For my days vanish like smoke; my bones burn like glowing embers.
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4 I am stricken and withered like grass; I forget to eat my 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 my loud groaning, I am just skin and bones.
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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 great owl in the desert, I've become like an owl in the ruins.
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6 I am like a desert owl, like an owl among the ruins.
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7 I lie awake and become like a bird alone on the roof.
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7 I lie awake; I have become like a bird alone on a roof.
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8 My enemies taunt me all day long; mad with rage, they make my name 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 For I have been eating ashes like bread and mingling tears with my drink
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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 furious anger, since you picked me up just to toss me aside.
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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 decline like an evening shadow; I am drying up like 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, ADONAI, are enthroned forever; your renown will endure through all generations.
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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 arise and take pity on Tziyon, for the time has come to have mercy on her; the time determined has come.
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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 love her very stones; they take pity even 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 The nations will fear the name of ADONAI and all the kings on earth your 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 ADONAI has rebuilt Tziyon, and shows himself 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 heeded the plea of the poor and not despised their prayer.
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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 May this be put on record for a future generation; may a people yet to be created praise ADONAI.
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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 he has looked down from the height of his sanctuary; from heaven ADONAI surveys the earth
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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 to listen to the sighing of the prisoner, to set free those who are sentenced to death,
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20 to hear the groans of the prisoners and release those condemned to death."
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21 to proclaim the name of ADONAI in Tziyon and his praise in Yerushalayim
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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 peoples and kingdoms have been gathered together to serve ADONAI.
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22 when the peoples and the kingdoms assemble to worship the LORD.
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23 He has broken my strength in midcourse, he has cut 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 plead, "God, your years last through all generations; so don't take me away when my life is half over!
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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 beginning, you laid the foundations of the earth; heaven is 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 vanish, but you will remain; like clothing, they will all grow old; yes, you will change them like clothing, and they will pass away.
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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 remain the same, and your years will never 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 live securely and their descendants be established in your presence."
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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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| Complete Jewish Bible Copyright 1998 by David H. Stern. Published by Jewish New Testament Publications, Inc. All rights reserved. Used by permission. (The Complete Jewish Bible Online) |
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