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LORD, hear my prayer! Listen to my plea! |
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Don't turn away from me in my time of distress. Bend down to listen, and answer me quickly when I call to you. |
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For my days disappear like smoke, and my bones burn like red-hot coals. |
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My heart is sick, withered like grass, and I have lost my appetite. |
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Because of my groaning, I am reduced to skin and bones. |
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I am like an owl in the desert, like a little owl in a far-off wilderness. |
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I lie awake, lonely as a solitary bird on the roof. |
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My enemies taunt me day after day. They mock and curse me. |
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I eat ashes for food. My tears run down into my drink |
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because of your anger and wrath. For you have picked me up and thrown me out. |
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My life passes as swiftly as the evening shadows. I am withering away like grass. |
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But you, O LORD, will sit on your throne forever. Your fame will endure to every generation. |
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You will arise and have mercy on Jerusalem-- and now is the time to pity her, now is the time you promised to help. |
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For your people love every stone in her walls and cherish even the dust in her streets. |
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Then the nations will tremble before the LORD. The kings of the earth will tremble before his glory. |
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For the LORD will rebuild Jerusalem. He will appear in his glory. |
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He will listen to the prayers of the destitute. He will not reject their pleas. |
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Let this be recorded for future generations, so that a people not yet born will praise the LORD. |
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Tell them the LORD looked down from his heavenly sanctuary. He looked down to earth from heaven |
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to hear the groans of the prisoners, to release those condemned to die. |
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And so the LORD's fame will be celebrated in Zion, his praises in Jerusalem, |
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when multitudes gather together and kingdoms come to worship the LORD. |
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He broke my strength in midlife, cutting short my days. |
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But I cried to him, "O my God, who lives forever, don't take my life while I am so young! |
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Long ago you laid the foundation of the earth and made the heavens with your hands. |
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They will perish, but you remain forever; they will wear out like old clothing. You will change them like a garment and discard them. |
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But you are always the same; you will live forever. |
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The children of your people will live in security. Their children's children will thrive in your presence." A psalm of David. |
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