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| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1Hear my prayer, O LORD; let my cry come to you! |
| 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2Do not hide your face from me in the day of my distress! Incline your ear to me; answer me speedily in the day when I call! |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3For my days pass away like smoke, and my bones burn like a furnace. |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4My heart is struck down like grass and has withered; I forget to eat my bread. |
| 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5Because of my loud groaning my bones cling to my flesh. |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6I am like a desert owl of the wilderness, like an owl of the waste places; |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7I lie awake; I am like a lonely sparrow on the housetop. |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8All the day my enemies taunt me; those who deride me use my name for a curse. |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9For I eat ashes like bread and mingle tears with my drink, |
| 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10because of your indignation and anger; for you have taken me up and thrown me down. |
| 11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11My days are like an evening shadow; I wither away like grass. |
| 12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12But you, O LORD, are enthroned forever; you are remembered throughout all generations. |
| 13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13You will arise and have pity on Zion; it is the time to favor her; the appointed time has come. |
| 14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14For your servants hold her stones dear and have pity on her dust. |
| 15[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 15Nations 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 builds up Zion; he appears in his glory; |
| 17[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 17he regards the prayer of the destitute and does not despise their prayer. |
| 18[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 18Let this be recorded for a generation to come, so that a people yet to be created may praise the LORD: |
| 19[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 19that he looked down from his holy height; from heaven the LORD looked at the earth, |
| 20[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 20to hear the groans of the prisoners, to set free those who were doomed to die, |
| 21[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 21that they may declare in Zion the name of the LORD, and in Jerusalem his praise, |
| 22[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 22when peoples gather together, and kingdoms, to worship the LORD. |
| 23[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 23He has broken my strength in midcourse; he has shortened my days. |
| 24[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 24“O my God,” I say, “take me not away in the midst of my days— you whose years endure throughout all generations!” |
| 25[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 25Of old you laid the foundation 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 will remain; they will all wear out like a garment. You will change them like a robe, and they will pass away, |
| 27[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 27but you are the same, and your years have no end. |
| 28[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 28The children of your servants shall dwell secure; their offspring shall be established before you. |
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