New Living Translation NLT
King James Version KJV
1 LORD, hear my prayer! Listen to my plea!
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Hear my prayer, O LORD, and let my cry come unto thee.
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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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 disappear like smoke, and my bones burn like red-hot coals.
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For my days are consumed like smoke, and my bones are burned as an hearth.
4 My heart is sick, withered like grass, and I have lost my appetite.
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My heart is smitten, and withered like grass; so that I forget to eat my bread.
5 Because of my groaning, I am reduced to 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 an owl in the desert, like a little owl in a far-off wilderness.
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I am like a pelican of the wilderness: I am like an owl of the desert.
7 I lie awake, lonely as a solitary bird on the roof.
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I watch, and am as a sparrow alone upon the house top.
8 My enemies taunt me day after day. They mock and curse me.
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Mine enemies reproach me all the day; and they that are mad against me are sworn against me.
9 I eat ashes for food. My tears run down into my drink
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For I have eaten ashes like bread, and mingled my drink with weeping,
10 because of your anger and wrath. For you have picked me up and thrown me out.
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Because of thine indignation and thy wrath: for thou hast lifted me up, and cast me down.
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 that declineth; and I am withered like grass.
12 But you, O LORD, will sit on your throne forever. Your fame will endure to every generation.
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But thou, O LORD, shalt endure for ever; and thy remembrance unto all generations.
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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Thou shalt arise, and have mercy upon Zion: for the time to favour her, yea, the set time, is come.
14 For your people love every stone in her walls and cherish even the dust in her streets.
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For thy servants take pleasure in her stones, and favour the dust thereof.
15 Then the nations will tremble before the LORD . The kings of the earth will tremble before his 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 For the LORD will rebuild Jerusalem. He will appear in his glory.
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When the LORD shall build up Zion, he shall appear in his glory.
17 He will listen to the prayers of the destitute. He will not reject their pleas.
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He will regard the prayer of the destitute, and not despise their prayer.
18 Let this be recorded for future generations, so that a people not yet born will praise the LORD .
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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 Tell them the LORD looked down from his heavenly sanctuary. He looked down to earth from heaven
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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 hear the groans of the prisoners, to release those condemned to die.
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To hear the groaning of the prisoner; to loose those that are appointed to death;
21 And so the LORD ’s fame will be celebrated in Zion, his praises in Jerusalem,
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To declare the name of the LORD in Zion, and his praise in Jerusalem;
22 when multitudes gather together and kingdoms come to worship the LORD .
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When the people are gathered together, and the kingdoms, to serve the LORD.
23 He broke my strength in midlife, cutting short my days.
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He weakened my strength in the way; he shortened my days.
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, O my God, take me not away in the midst of my days: thy years are throughout all generations.
25 Long ago you laid the foundation of the earth and made the heavens with 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 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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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 are always the same; you will live forever.
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But thou art the same, and thy years shall have no end.
28 The children of your people will live in security. Their children’s children will thrive in your presence.”
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The children of thy servants shall continue, and their seed shall be established before thee.
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