The Complete Jewish Bible CJB
King James Version KJV
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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Hear my prayer, O LORD, and let my cry come unto thee.
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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Hide not thy face from me in the day when I am in trouble; incline thine ear unto me: in the day when I call answer me speedily.
3 For my days are vanishing like smoke, my bones are burning like a furnace.
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For my days are consumed like smoke, and my bones are burned as an hearth.
4 I am stricken and withered like grass; I forget to eat my food.
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My heart is smitten, and withered like grass; so that I forget to eat my bread.
5 Because of my loud groaning, I am just skin and bones.
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By reason of the voice of my groaning my bones cleave to my skin.
6 I am like a great owl in the desert, I've become like an owl in the ruins.
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I am like a pelican of the wilderness: I am like an owl of the desert.
7 I lie awake and become like a bird alone on the roof.
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I watch, and am as a sparrow alone upon the house top.
8 My enemies taunt me all day long; mad with rage, they make my name a curse.
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Mine enemies reproach me all the day; and they that are mad against me are sworn against me.
9 For I have been eating ashes like bread and mingling tears with my drink
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For I have eaten ashes like bread, and mingled my drink with weeping,
10 because of your furious anger, since you picked me up just to toss me aside.
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Because of thine indignation and thy wrath: for thou hast lifted me up, and cast me down.
11 My days decline like an evening shadow; I am drying up like grass.
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My days are like a shadow that declineth; and I am withered like grass.
12 But you, ADONAI, are enthroned forever; your renown will endure through all generations.
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But thou, O LORD, shalt endure for ever; and thy remembrance unto all generations.
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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Thou shalt arise, and have mercy upon Zion: for the time to favour her, yea, the set time, is come.
14 For your servants love her very stones; they take pity even on her dust.
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For thy servants take pleasure in her stones, and favour the dust thereof.
15 The nations will fear the name of ADONAI and all the kings on earth your glory,
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So the heathen shall fear the name of the LORD, and all the kings of the earth thy glory.
16 when ADONAI has rebuilt Tziyon, and shows himself in his glory,
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When the LORD shall build up Zion, he shall appear in his glory.
17 when he has heeded the plea of the poor and not despised their prayer.
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He will regard the prayer of the destitute, and not despise their prayer.
18 May this be put on record for a future generation; may a people yet to be created praise ADONAI.
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This shall be written for the generation to come: and the people which shall be created shall praise the LORD.
19 For he has looked down from the height of his sanctuary; from heaven ADONAI surveys the earth
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For he hath looked down from the height of his sanctuary; from heaven did the LORD behold the earth;
20 to listen to the sighing of the prisoner, to set free those who are sentenced to death,
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To hear the groaning of the prisoner; to loose those that are appointed to death;
21 to proclaim the name of ADONAI in Tziyon and his praise in Yerushalayim
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To declare the name of the LORD in Zion, and his praise in Jerusalem;
22 when peoples and kingdoms have been gathered together to serve ADONAI.
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When the people are gathered together, and the kingdoms, to serve the LORD.
23 He has broken my strength in midcourse, he has cut short my days.
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He weakened my strength in the way; he shortened my days.
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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I said, O my God, take me not away in the midst of my days: thy years are throughout all generations.
25 In the beginning, you laid the foundations of the earth; heaven is the work of your hands.
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Of old hast thou laid the foundation of the earth: and the heavens are the work of thy hands.
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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They shall perish, but thou shalt endure: yea, all of them shall wax old like a garment; as a vesture shalt thou change them, and they shall be changed:
27 But you remain the same, and your years will never end.
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But thou art the same, and thy years shall have no end.
28 The children of your servants will live securely and their descendants be established in your presence."
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The children of thy servants shall continue, and their seed shall be established before thee.
Complete Jewish Bible Copyright 1998 by David H. Stern. Published by Jewish New Testament Publications, Inc. All rights reserved. Used by permission.
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