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Psalms 101

Brenton's English Septuagint · Berean Standard Bible

101:1

A Prayer for the Poor; when he is deeply afflicted, and pours out his supplication before the Lord.

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101:2

Hear my prayer, O Lord, and let my cry come to thee.

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101:3

Turn not away thy face from me: in the day [when] I am afflicted, incline thine ear to me: in the day [when] I shall call upon thee, speedily hear me.

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101:4

For my days have vanished like smoke, and my bones have been parched like a stick.

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101:5

I am blighted like grass, and my heart is dried up; for I have forgotten to eat my bread.

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101:6

By reason of the voice of my groaning, my bone has cleaved to my flesh.

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101:7

I have become like a pelican of the wilderness;

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101:8

I have become like an owl in a ruined house. I have watched, and am become as a sparrow dwelling alone on a roof.

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101:9

All the day long mine enemies have reproached me; and they that praised me have sworn against me.

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101:10

For I have eaten ashes as it were bread, and mingled my drink with weeping;

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101:11

because of thine anger and thy wrath: for thou hast lifted me up, and dashed me down.

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101:12

My days have declined like a shadow; and I am withered like grass.

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101:13

But thou, Lord, endurest for ever, and thy memorial to generation and generation.

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101:14

Thou shalt arise, and have mercy upon Sion: for [it is] time to have mercy upon her, for the set time is come.

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101:15

For thy servants have taken pleasure in her stones, and they shall pity her dust.

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101:16

So the nations shall fear thy name, O Lord, and all kings thy glory.

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101:17

For the Lord shall build up Sion, and shall appear in his glory.

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101:18

He has had regard to the prayer of the lowly, and has not despised their petition.

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101:19

Let this be written for another generation; and the people that shall be created shall praise the Lord.

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101:20

For he has looked out from the height of his sanctuary; the Lord looked upon the earth from heaven;

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101:21

to hear the groaning of the fettered ones, to loosen the sons of the slain;

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101:22

to proclaim the name of the Lord in Sion, and his praise in Jerusalem;

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101:23

when the people are gathered together, and the kings, to serve the Lord.

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101:24

He answered him in the way of his strength: tell me the fewness of my days.

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101:25

Take me not away in the midst of my days: thy years [are] through all generations.

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101:26

In the beginning thou, O Lord, didst lay the foundation of the earth; and the heavens are the works of thine hands.

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101:27

They shall perish, but thou remainest: and [they all] shall wax old as a garment; and as a vesture shalt thou fold them, and they shall be changed.

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101:28

But thou art the same, and thy years shall not fail.

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101:29

The children of thy servants shall dwell [securely], and their seed shall prosper for ever.

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