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1 HEAR my prayer, O LORD, and let my cry come unto thee. | |
2 Hide not thy face from me in the day when I am in trouble; incline thine ear unto me: in the day when I call answer me speedily. | |
3 For my days are consumed like smoke, and my bones are burned as an hearth. | |
4 My heart is smitten, and withered like grass; so that I forget to eat my bread. | |
5 By reason of the voice of my groaning my bones cleave to my skin. | |
6 I am like a pelican of the wilderness: I am like an owl of the desert. | |
7 I watch, and am as a sparrow alone upon the house top. | |
8 Mine enemies reproach me all the day; and they that are mad against me are sworn against me. | |
9 For I have eaten ashes like bread, and mingled my drink with weeping, | |
10 Because of thine indignation and thy wrath: for thou hast lifted me up, and cast me down. | |
11 My days are like a shadow that declineth; and I am withered like grass. | |
12 But thou, O LORD, shalt endure for ever; and thy remembrance unto all generations. | |
13 Thou shalt arise, and have mercy upon Zion: for the time to favour her, yea, the set time, is come. | |
14 For thy servants take pleasure in her stones, and favour the dust thereof. | |
15 So the heathen shall fear the name of the LORD, and all the kings of the earth thy glory. | |
16 When the LORD shall build up Zion, he shall appear in his glory. | |
17 He will regard the prayer of the destitute, and not despise their prayer. | |
18 This shall be written for the generation to come: and the people which shall be created shall praise the LORD. | |
19 For he hath looked down from the height of his sanctuary; from heaven did the LORD behold the earth; | |
20 To hear the groaning of the prisoner; to loose those that are appointed to death; | |
21 To declare the name of the LORD in Zion, and his praise in Jerusalem; | |
22 When the people are gathered together, and the kingdoms, to serve the LORD. | |
23 He weakened my strength in the way; he shortened my days. | |
24 I said, O my God, take me not away in the midst of my days: thy years are throughout all generations. | |
25 Of old hast thou laid the foundation of the earth: and the heavens are the work of thy hands. | |
26 They shall perish, but thou shalt endure: yea, all of them shall wax old like a garment; as a vesture shalt thou change them, and they shall be changed: | |
27 But thou art the same, and thy years shall have no end. | |
28 The children of thy servants shall continue, and their seed shall be established before thee. | |
