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- HEAR MY prayer, O Lord, and let my cry come to You.
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- Hide not Your face from me in the day when I am in distress! Incline Your ear to me; in the day when I call, answer me speedily.
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- For my days consume away like smoke, and my bones burn like a firebrand or like a hearth.
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- My heart is smitten like grass and withered, so that [in absorption] I forget to eat my food.
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- By reason of my loud groaning [from suffering and trouble] my flesh cleaves to my bones.
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- I am like a melancholy pelican or vulture of the wilderness; I am like a [desolate] owl of the waste places.
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- I am sleepless and lie awake [mourning], like a bereaved sparrow alone on the housetop.
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- My adversaries taunt and reproach me all the day; and they who are angry with me use my name as a curse.
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- For I have eaten the ashes [in which I sat] as if they were bread and have mingled my drink with weeping
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- Because of Your indignation and Your wrath, for You have taken me up and cast me away.
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- My days are like an evening shadow that stretches out and declines [with the sun]; and I am withered like grass.
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- But You, O Lord, are enthroned forever; and the fame of Your name endures to all generations.
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- You will arise and have mercy and loving-kindness for Zion, for it is time to have pity and compassion for her; yes, the set time has come [the moment designated]. [Ps. 12:5; 119:126.]
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- For Your servants take [melancholy] pleasure in the stones [of her ruins] and show pity for her dust.
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- So the nations shall fear and worshipfully revere the name of the Lord, and all the kings of the earth Your glory. [Ps. 96:9.]
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- When the Lord builds up Zion, He will appear in His glory;
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- He will regard the plea of the destitute and will not despise their prayer.
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- Let this be recorded for the generation yet unborn, that a people yet to be created shall praise the Lord.
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- For He looked down from the height of His sanctuary, from heaven did the Lord behold the earth,
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- To hear the sighing and groaning of the prisoner, to loose those who are appointed to death,
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- So that men may declare the name of the Lord in Zion and His praise in Jerusalem
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- When peoples are gathered together, and the kingdoms, to worship and serve the Lord.
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- He has afflicted and weakened my strength, humbling and bringing me low [with sorrow] in the way; He has shortened my days [aging me prematurely].
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- I said, O my God, take me not away in the midst of my days, You Whose years continue throughout all generations.
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- At the beginning You existed and laid the foundations of the earth; the heavens are the work of Your hands.
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- They shall perish, but You shall remain and endure; yes, all of them shall wear out and become old like a garment. Like clothing You shall change them, and they shall be changed and pass away.
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- But You remain the same, and Your years shall have no end. [Heb. 1:10-12.]
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- The children of Your servants shall dwell safely and continue, and their descendants shall be established before You.
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