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1 Hear my prayer, LORD; let my cry for help come to you.
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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!
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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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!
3 For my days vanish like smoke; my bones burn like glowing embers.
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For my days are vanishing like smoke, my bones are burning like a furnace.
4 My heart is blighted and withered like grass; I forget to eat my food.
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I am stricken and withered like grass; I forget to eat my food.
5 In my distress I groan aloud and am reduced to skin and bones.
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Because of my loud groaning, I am just skin and bones.
6 I am like a desert owl, like an owl among the ruins.
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I am like a great owl in the desert, I've become like an owl in the ruins.
7 I lie awake; I have become like a bird alone on a roof.
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I lie awake and become like a bird alone on the roof.
8 All day long my enemies taunt me; those who rail against me use my name as a curse.
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My enemies taunt me all day long; mad with rage, they make my name a curse.
9 For I eat ashes as my food and mingle my drink with tears
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For I have been eating ashes like bread and mingling tears with my drink
10 because of your great wrath, for you have taken me up and thrown me aside.
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because of your furious anger, since you picked me up just to toss me aside.
11 My days are like the evening shadow; I wither away like grass.
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My days decline like an evening shadow; I am drying up like grass.
12 But you, LORD, sit enthroned forever; your renown endures through all generations.
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But you, ADONAI, are enthroned forever; your renown will endure through all generations.
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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You will arise and take pity on Tziyon, for the time has come to have mercy on her; the time determined has come.
14 For her stones are dear to your servants; her very dust moves them to pity.
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For your servants love her very stones; they take pity even on her dust.
15 The nations will fear the name of the LORD, all the kings of the earth will revere your glory.
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The nations will fear the name of ADONAI and all the kings on earth your glory,
16 For the LORD will rebuild Zion and appear in his glory.
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when ADONAI has rebuilt Tziyon, and shows himself in his glory,
17 He will respond to the prayer of the destitute; he will not despise their plea.
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when he has heeded the plea of the poor and not despised their prayer.
18 Let this be written for a future generation, that a people not yet created may praise the LORD:
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May this be put on record for a future generation; may a people yet to be created praise ADONAI.
19 “The LORD looked down from his sanctuary on high, from heaven he viewed the earth,
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For he has looked down from the height of his sanctuary; from heaven ADONAI surveys the earth
20 to hear the groans of the prisoners and release those condemned to death.”
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to listen to the sighing of the prisoner, to set free those who are sentenced to death,
21 So the name of the LORD will be declared in Zion and his praise in Jerusalem
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to proclaim the name of ADONAI in Tziyon and his praise in Yerushalayim
22 when the peoples and the kingdoms assemble to worship the LORD.
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when peoples and kingdoms have been gathered together to serve ADONAI.
23 In the course of my life he broke my strength; he cut short my days.
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He has broken my strength in midcourse, he has cut short my days.
24 So I said: “Do not take me away, my God, in the midst of my days; your years go on through all generations.
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I plead, "God, your years last through all generations; so don't take me away when my life is half over!
25 In the beginning you laid the foundations of the earth, and the heavens are the work of your hands.
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In the beginning, you laid the foundations of the earth; heaven is the work of your hands.
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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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.
27 But you remain the same, and your years will never end.
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But you remain the same, and your years will never end.
28 The children of your servants will live in your presence; their descendants will be established before you.”
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The children of your servants will live securely and their descendants be established in your presence."
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