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1 LORD, hear my prayer! Listen to my plea!
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LORD, hear my prayer! Let my cry reach you!
2 Don’t turn away from me in my time of distress. Bend down to listen, and answer me quickly when I call to you.
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Don't hide your face from me in my time of trouble! Listen to me! Answer me quickly as I cry out!
3 For my days disappear like smoke, and my bones burn like red-hot coals.
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Because my days disappear like smoke, my bones are burned up as if in an oven;
4 My heart is sick, withered like grass, and I have lost my appetite.
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my heart is smashed like dried-up grass. I even forget to eat my food
5 Because of my groaning, I am reduced to skin and bones.
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because of my intense groans. My bones are protruding from my skin.
6 I am like an owl in the desert, like a little owl in a far-off wilderness.
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I'm like some wild owl— like some screech owl in the desert.
7 I lie awake, lonely as a solitary bird on the roof.
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I lie awake all night. I'm all alone like a bird on a roof.
8 My enemies taunt me day after day. They mock and curse me.
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All day long my enemies make fun of me; those who mock me curse using my name!
9 I eat ashes for food. My tears run down into my drink
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I've been eating ashes instead of bread. I've been mixing tears into my drinks
10 because of your anger and wrath. For you have picked me up and thrown me out.
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because of your anger and wrath, because you picked me up and threw me away.
11 My life passes as swiftly as the evening shadows. I am withering away like grass.
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My days are like a shadow soon gone. I'm dried up like dead grass.
12 But you, O LORD, will sit on your throne forever. Your fame will endure to every generation.
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But you, LORD, rule forever! Your fame lasts from one generation to the next!
13 You will arise and have mercy on Jerusalem — and now is the time to pity her, now is the time you promised to help.
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You will stand up— you'll have compassion on Zion because it is time to have mercy on her— the time set for that has now come!
14 For your people love every stone in her walls and cherish even the dust in her streets.
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Your servants cherish Zion's stones; they show mercy even to her dirt.
15 Then the nations will tremble before the LORD . The kings of the earth will tremble before his glory.
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The nations will honor the LORD's name; all the earth's rulers will honor your glory
16 For the LORD will rebuild Jerusalem. He will appear in his glory.
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because the LORD will rebuild Zion; he will be seen there in his glory.
17 He will listen to the prayers of the destitute. He will not reject their pleas.
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God will turn to the prayer of the impoverished; he won't despise their prayers.
18 Let this be recorded for future generations, so that a people not yet born will praise the LORD .
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Let this be written down for the next generation so that people not yet created will praise the LORD:
19 Tell them the LORD looked down from his heavenly sanctuary. He looked down to earth from heaven
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The LORD looked down from his holy summit, surveyed the earth from heaven,
20 to hear the groans of the prisoners, to release those condemned to die.
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to hear the prisoners' groans, to set free those condemned to death,
21 And so the LORD ’s fame will be celebrated in Zion, his praises in Jerusalem,
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that the LORD's name may be declared in Zion and his praise declared in Jerusalem,
22 when multitudes gather together and kingdoms come to worship the LORD .
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when all people are gathered together— all kingdoms—to serve the LORD.
23 He broke my strength in midlife, cutting short my days.
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God broke my strength in midstride, cutting my days short.
24 But I cried to him, “O my God, who lives forever, don’t take my life while I am so young!
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I said, "My God, don't take me away in the prime of life— your years go on from one generation to the next!
25 Long ago you laid the foundation of the earth and made the heavens with your hands.
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You laid the earth's foundations long ago; the skies are your handiwork.
26 They will perish, but you remain forever; they will wear out like old clothing. You will change them like a garment and discard them.
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These things will pass away, but you will last. All of these things will wear out like clothing; you change them like clothes, and they pass on.
27 But you are always the same; you will live forever.
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But you are the one! Your years never end!
28 The children of your people will live in security. Their children’s children will thrive in your presence.”
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Let your servants' children live safe; let your servants' descendants live secure in your presence."
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