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| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1A prayer of an afflicted person who has grown weak and pours out a lament before the LORD. Hear my prayer, LORD; let my cry for help come to you. |
| 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2Do not hide your face from me when I am in distress. Turn your ear to me; when I call, answer me quickly. |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3For my days vanish like smoke; my bones burn like glowing embers. |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4My heart is blighted and withered like grass; I forget to eat my food. |
| 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5In my distress I groan aloud and am reduced to skin and 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 have become like a bird alone on a roof. |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8All day long my enemies taunt me; those who rail against me use my name as a curse. |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9For I eat ashes as my food and mingle my drink with tears |
| 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10because of your great wrath, for you have taken me up and thrown me aside. |
| 11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11My days are like the evening shadow; I wither away like grass. |
| 12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12But you, LORD, sit enthroned forever; your renown endures through all generations. |
| 13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13You will arise and have compassion on Zion, for it is time to show favor to her; the appointed time has come. |
| 14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14For her stones are dear to your servants; her very dust moves them to pity. |
| 15[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 15The nations will fear the name of the LORD, all the kings of the earth will revere your glory. |
| 16[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 16For the LORD will rebuild Zion and appear in his glory. |
| 17[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 17He will respond to the prayer of the destitute; he will not despise their plea. |
| 18[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 18Let this be written for a future generation, that a people not yet created may praise the LORD: |
| 19[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 19"The LORD looked down from his sanctuary on high, from heaven he viewed the earth, |
| 20[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 20to hear the groans of the prisoners and release those condemned to death." |
| 21[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 21So the name of the LORD will be declared in Zion and his praise in Jerusalem |
| 22[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 22when the peoples and the kingdoms assemble to worship the LORD. |
| 23[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 23In the course of my life he broke my strength; he cut short my days. |
| 24[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 24So I said: "Do not take me away, my God, 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 discarded. |
| 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 live in your presence; their descendants will be established before you." |
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