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| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1A prayer of one who is afflicted, when he grows faint and pours out his lament before the LORD. Hear my prayer, O LORD; let my cry for help come before You. |
| 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2Do not hide Your face from me in my day of distress. Incline Your ear to me; answer me quickly when I call. |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3For my days vanish like smoke, and my bones burn like glowing embers. |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4My heart is afflicted, and withered like grass; I even forget to eat my bread. |
| 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5Through my loud groaning my flesh clings to my bones. |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6I am like a desert owl, like an owl among the ruins. |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7I lie awake; I am like a lone bird on a housetop. |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8All day long my enemies taunt me; they ridicule me and curse me. |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9For I have eaten ashes like bread and mixed my drink with tears |
| 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10because of Your indignation and wrath, for You have picked me up and cast me aside. |
| 11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11My days are like lengthening shadows, and I wither away like grass. |
| 12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12But You, O LORD, sit enthroned forever; Your renown endures to all generations. |
| 13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13You will rise up and have compassion on Zion, for it is time to show her favor—the appointed time has come. |
| 14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14For Your servants delight in her stones and take pity on her dust. |
| 15[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 15So the nations will fear the name of the LORD, and all the kings of the earth will fear Your glory. |
| 16[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 16For the LORD will rebuild Zion; He has appeared in His glory. |
| 17[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 17He will turn toward the prayer of the destitute; He will not despise their prayer. |
| 18[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 18Let this be written for the generation to come, so that a people not yet created may praise the LORD. |
| 19[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 19For He looked down from the heights of His sanctuary; the LORD gazed out from heaven to earth |
| 20[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 20to hear a prisoner’s groaning, to release those condemned to death, |
| 21[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 21that they may proclaim the name of the LORD in Zion and praise Him in Jerusalem, |
| 22[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 22when peoples and kingdoms assemble to serve the LORD. |
| 23[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 23He has broken my strength on the way; He has cut short my days. |
| 24[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 24I say: “O my God, do not take me in the midst of my days! Your years go on through all generations. |
| 25[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 25In the beginning You laid the foundations of the earth, and the heavens are the work of Your hands. |
| 26[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 26They will perish, but You remain; they will all wear out like a garment. Like clothing You will change them, and they will be passed on. |
| 27[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 27But You remain the same, and Your years will never end. |
| 28[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 28The children of Your servants will dwell securely, and their descendants will be established before You.” |
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