Verse
BSB
Berean Standard Bible
YLT
Young's Literal Translation
A prayer of one
who
is
afflicted ,
when he grows
faint
and pours
out his lament
before
the
LORD
. Hear my prayer, O
LORD;
let
my cry for
help
come
before
You
.
A Prayer of the
afflicted when he is
feeble,
and before
Jehovah
poureth
out his plaint
. O
Jehovah,
hear my prayer, yea,
my cry to
Thee
cometh
.
Do
not
hide Your
face from me in my
day of distress.
Incline Your
ear
to
me;
answer
me quickly
when
I call.
Hide not
Thou
Thy
face from me ,
In a
day of mine
adversity,
Incline unto
me Thine
ear,
In
the
day
I call ,
haste,
answer
me
.
For my days vanish
like
smoke
, and my bones burn
like
glowing
embers
.
For consumed
in
smoke
have
been
my days, And my bones as
a
fire-brand
have
burned
.
My
heart
is
afflicted
, and withered like
grass;
I even
forget
to eat my bread.
Smitten
as
the
herb
, and withered ,
is
my
heart,
For
I have
forgotten
to eat my bread.
Through
my loud
groaning
my flesh
clings
to my bones
.
From
the
voice
of
my sighing
Hath
my bone
cleaved
to my flesh
.
I am
like a desert
owl
, like
an owl among
the ruins
.
I have
been
like to
a pelican
of
the
wilderness
, I
have
been
as
an owl of
the dry
places
.
I lie
awake;
I am like
a lone
bird on a
housetop
.
I have
watched,
and
I am As
a bird alone
on the
roof
.
All day long
my
enemies taunt
me ;
they
ridicule
me and
curse
me.
All the
day mine
enemies reproached
me ,
Those
mad
at
me have
sworn
against
me.
For
I have eaten ashes
like
bread
and mixed
my drink with tears
Because
ashes
as
bread
I have eaten ,
And my drink with weeping
have
mingled,
because
of
Your
indignation and wrath, for You
have
picked
me up and cast me aside
.
From
Thine
indignation and Thy
wrath, For Thou
hast
lifted
me up ,
And dost
cast me down
.
My days are like
lengthening
shadows
, and I wither
away
like
grass
.
My days as
a
shadow
`
are '
stretched
out
, And I --
as
the
herb
I
am
withered
.
But
You
, O LORD
, sit
enthroned
forever;
Your
renown
endures
to all generations.
And
Thou
, O Jehovah
, to the
age
abidest,
And
Thy
memorial
to
all generations.
You
will
rise
up
and
have
compassion
on
Zion, for it
is
time to show
her favor—
the appointed time has
come.
Thou
--
Thou
risest
--
Thou
pitiest
Zion, For the
time to favour
her ,
For
the appointed time hath
come.
For Your
servants delight
in
her stones and take
pity
on
her dust.
For Thy
servants have
been
pleased
with
her stones ,
And her dust they
favour
.
So
the
nations will
fear the name of the
LORD
, and all the
kings of the earth will
fear
Your
glory.
And
nations fear the name of Jehovah
, And all kings of the earth Thine
honour,
For the
LORD
will
rebuild
Zion ;
He has
appeared
in His glory.
For Jehovah
hath
builded
Zion ,
He hath
been
seen
in His honour,
He will
turn
toward
the prayer of the destitute ;
He will
not despise
their prayer.
He turned
unto
the prayer of the destitute ,
And
He hath
not despised
their prayer.
Let
this be
written for the
generation to
come
, so
that
a
people not
yet
created may
praise the
LORD
.
This is
written for a
later
generation, And
the
people created do
praise Jah
.
For He looked down
from the heights
of His sanctuary ;
the
LORD
gazed
out
from heaven to
earth
For He hath
looked From the high
place
of His sanctuary .
Jehovah
from heaven unto
earth looked
attentively,
to hear a
prisoner’s
groaning
, to release
those
condemned
to
death,
To hear the
groan
of
the
prisoner
, To loose
sons
of
death,
that
they
may
proclaim
the name of the
LORD
in
Zion
and praise Him
in Jerusalem,
To
declare
in
Zion
the name of Jehovah,
And His
praise in Jerusalem,
when
peoples and kingdoms assemble
to serve the
LORD
.
In
the
peoples being
gathered
together,
And the
kingdoms --
to serve Jehovah
.
He has
broken
my
strength
on
the way ;
He has
cut
short
my days.
He hath
humbled
in
the way my
power,
He hath
shortened
my days.
I say :
“O
my God, do
not
take me in the midst of my days !
Your
years
go
on
through all generations.
I say ,
`
My God, take me not
up
in the midst of my days ,'
Through all generations `are'
Thine
years
.
In
the
beginning
You
laid
the
foundations
of
the earth, and the heavens
are
the
work of Your
hands.
Beforetime
the earth Thou
didst
found
, And the work of Thy
hands `are'
the
heavens
.
They will
perish, but
You
remain;
they
will
all wear
out
like
a garment .
Like
clothing You
will
change
them, and they will
be
passed
on
.
They --
They
perish, and
Thou
remainest,
And
all of
them
as
a garment become
old,
As
clothing Thou
changest
them, And they are
changed
.
But
You
remain
the same, and Your
years will
never
end
.
And
Thou
`art'
the same, and Thine
years are
not
finished
.
The children
of Your
servants will
dwell
securely
, and their descendants
will
be
established
before You.”
The sons
of Thy
servants do
continue
, And their seed
before Thee
is
established!
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