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