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Young's Literal Translation YLT
1 Hear my prayer, LORD; let my cry for help come to you.
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A Prayer of the afflicted when he is feeble, and before Jehovah poureth out his plaint. O Jehovah, hear my prayer, yea, my cry to Thee cometh.
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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Hide not Thou Thy face from me, In a day of mine adversity, Incline unto me Thine ear, In the day I call, haste, answer me.
3 For my days vanish like smoke; my bones burn like glowing embers.
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For consumed in smoke have been my days, And my bones as a fire-brand have burned.
4 My heart is blighted and withered like grass; I forget to eat my food.
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Smitten as the herb, and withered, is my heart, For I have forgotten to eat my bread.
5 In my distress I groan aloud and am reduced to skin and bones.
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From the voice of my sighing Hath my bone cleaved to my flesh.
6 I am like a desert owl, like an owl among the ruins.
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I have been like to a pelican of the wilderness, I have been as an owl of the dry places.
7 I lie awake; I have become like a bird alone on a roof.
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I have watched, and I am As 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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All the day mine enemies reproached me, Those mad at me have sworn against me.
9 For I eat ashes as my food and mingle my drink with tears
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Because ashes as bread I have eaten, And my drink with weeping have mingled,
10 because of your great wrath, for you have taken me up and thrown me aside.
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From Thine indignation and Thy wrath, For Thou hast lifted me up, And dost cast me down.
11 My days are like the evening shadow; I wither away like grass.
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My days as a shadow [are] stretched out, And I -- as the herb I am withered.
12 But you, LORD, sit enthroned forever; your renown endures through all generations.
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And Thou, O Jehovah, to the age abidest, And Thy memorial to 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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Thou -- Thou risest -- Thou pitiest Zion, For the time to favour her, For the appointed time hath come.
14 For her stones are dear to your servants; her very dust moves them to pity.
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For Thy servants have been pleased with her stones, And her dust they favour.
15 The nations will fear the name of the LORD, all the kings of the earth will revere your glory.
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And nations fear the name of Jehovah, And all kings of the earth Thine honour,
16 For the LORD will rebuild Zion and appear in his glory.
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For Jehovah hath builded Zion, He hath been seen in His honour,
17 He will respond to the prayer of the destitute; he will not despise their plea.
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He turned unto the prayer of the destitute, And He hath 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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This is written for a later generation, And the people created do praise Jah.
19 “The LORD looked down from his sanctuary on high, from heaven he viewed the earth,
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For He hath looked From the high place of His sanctuary. Jehovah from heaven unto earth looked attentively,
20 to hear the groans of the prisoners and release those condemned to death.”
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To hear the groan of the prisoner, To loose sons of death,
21 So the name of the LORD will be declared in Zion and his praise in Jerusalem
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To declare in Zion the name of Jehovah, And His praise in Jerusalem,
22 when the peoples and the kingdoms assemble to worship the LORD.
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In the peoples being gathered together, And the kingdoms -- to serve Jehovah.
23 In the course of my life he broke my strength; he cut short my days.
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He hath humbled in the way my power, He hath shortened 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 say, `My God, take me not up in the midst of my days,' Through all generations [are] Thine years.
25 In the beginning you laid the foundations of the earth, and the heavens are the work of your hands.
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Beforetime the earth Thou didst found, And the work of Thy hands [are] the heavens.
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 -- They perish, and Thou remainest, And all of them as a garment become old, As clothing Thou changest them, And they are changed.
27 But you remain the same, and your years will never end.
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And Thou [art] the same, and Thine years are not finished.
28 The children of your servants will live in your presence; their descendants will be established before you.”
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The sons of Thy servants do continue, And their seed before Thee is established!
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