| [an error occurred while processing this directive] | New Living Translation |
| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1LORD, hear my prayer! Listen to my plea! |
| 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2Don’t turn away from me in my time of distress. Bend down to listen, and answer me quickly when I call to you. |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3For my days disappear like smoke, and my bones burn like red-hot coals. |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4My heart is sick, withered like grass, and I have lost my appetite. |
| 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5Because of my groaning, I am reduced to skin and bones. |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6I am like an owl in the desert, like a little owl in a far-off wilderness. |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7I lie awake, lonely as a solitary bird on the roof. |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8My enemies taunt me day after day. They mock and curse me. |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9I eat ashes for food. My tears run down into my drink |
| 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10because of your anger and wrath. For you have picked me up and thrown me out. |
| 11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11My life passes as swiftly as the evening shadows. I am withering away like grass. |
| 12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12But you, O LORD, will sit on your throne forever. Your fame will endure to every generation. |
| 13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13You will arise and have mercy on Jerusalem — and now is the time to pity her, now is the time you promised to help. |
| 14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14For your people love every stone in her walls and cherish even the dust in her streets. |
| 15[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 15Then the nations will tremble before the LORD. The kings of the earth will tremble before his glory. |
| 16[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 16For the LORD will rebuild Jerusalem. He will appear in his glory. |
| 17[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 17He will listen to the prayers of the destitute. He will not reject their pleas. |
| 18[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 18Let this be recorded for future generations, so that a people not yet born will praise the LORD. |
| 19[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 19Tell them the LORD looked down from his heavenly sanctuary. He looked down to earth from heaven |
| 20[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 20to hear the groans of the prisoners, to release those condemned to die. |
| 21[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 21And so the LORD’s fame will be celebrated in Zion, his praises in Jerusalem, |
| 22[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 22when multitudes gather together and kingdoms come to worship the LORD. |
| 23[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 23He broke my strength in midlife, cutting short my days. |
| 24[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 24But I cried to him, “O my God, who lives forever, don’t take my life while I am so young! |
| 25[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 25Long ago you laid the foundation of the earth and made the heavens with your hands. |
| 26[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 26They will perish, but you remain forever; they will wear out like old clothing. You will change them like a garment and discard them. |
| 27[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 27But you are always the same; you will live forever. |
| 28[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 28The children of your people will live in security. Their children’s children will thrive in your presence.” |
| [an error occurred while processing this directive] | Holy Bible, New Living Translation, copyright © 1996, 2004, 2015 by Tyndale House Foundation. Used by permission of Tyndale House Publishers, Inc., Carol Stream, Illinois 60188. All rights reserved. |
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