| [an error occurred while processing this directive] | New American Standard Bible 1995 |
| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1A Prayer of the Afflicted when he is faint and pours out his complaint before the LORD. Hear my prayer, O LORD! And let my cry for help 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; In the day when I call answer me quickly. |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3For my days have been consumed in smoke, And my bones have been scorched like a hearth. |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4My heart has been smitten like grass and has withered away, Indeed, I forget to eat my bread. |
| 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5Because of the loudness of my groaning My bones cling to my flesh. |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6I resemble a pelican of the wilderness; I have become like an owl of the waste places. |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7I lie awake, I have become like a lonely bird on a housetop. |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8My enemies have reproached me all day long; Those who deride me have used my name as a curse. |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9For I have eaten ashes like bread And mingled my drink with weeping |
| 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10Because of Your indignation and Your wrath, For You have lifted me up and cast me away. |
| 11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11My days are like a lengthened shadow, And I wither away like grass. |
| 12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12But You, O LORD, abide forever, And Your name to all generations. |
| 13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13You will arise and have compassion on Zion; For it is time to be gracious to her, For the appointed time has come. |
| 14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14Surely Your servants find pleasure in her stones And feel pity for 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 Your glory. |
| 16[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 16For the LORD has built up Zion; He has appeared in His glory. |
| 17[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 17He has regarded the prayer of the destitute And has not despised their prayer. |
| 18[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 18This will be written for the generation to come, That a people yet to be created may praise the LORD. |
| 19[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 19For He looked down from His holy height; From heaven the LORD gazed upon the earth, |
| 20[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 20To hear the groaning of the prisoner, To set free those who were doomed to death, |
| 21[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 21That men may tell of the name of the LORD in Zion And His praise in Jerusalem, |
| 22[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 22When the peoples are gathered together, And the kingdoms, to serve the LORD. |
| 23[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 23He has weakened my strength in the way; He has shortened my days. |
| 24[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 24I say, "O my God, do not take me away in the midst of my days, Your years are throughout all generations. |
| 25[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 25"Of old You founded the earth, And the heavens are the work of Your hands. |
| 26[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 26"Even they will perish, but You endure; And all of them will wear out like a garment; Like clothing You will change them and they will be changed. |
| 27[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 27"But You are the same, And Your years will not come to an end. |
| 28[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 28"The children of Your servants will continue, And their descendants will be established before You." |
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