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The Book of Psalms
Psalm 101
Domine, exaudi.
A prayer for one in affliction: the fifth penitential psalm.
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The prayer of the poor man, when he was anxious, and poured out his supplication before the Lord. |
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Hear, O Lord, my prayer: and let my cry come to thee. |
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Turn not away thy face from me: in the day when I am in trouble, incline thy ear to me. In what day soever I shall call upon thee, hear me speedily. |
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For my days are vanished like smoke, and my bones are grown dry like fuel for the fire. |
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I am smitten as grass, and my heart is withered: because I forgot to eat my bread. |
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Through the voice of my groaning, my bone hath cleaved to my flesh. |
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I am become like to a pelican of the wilderness: I am like a night raven in the house. |
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I have watched, and am become as a sparrow all alone on the housetop. |
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All the day long my enemies reproached me: and they that praised me did swear against me. |
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For I did eat ashes like bread, and mingled my drink with weeping. |
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Because of thy anger and indignation: for having lifted me up thou hast thrown me down. |
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My days have declined like a shadow, and I am withered like grass. |
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But thou, O Lord, endurest for ever: and thy memorial to all generations. |
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Thou shalt arise and have mercy on Sion: for it is time to have mercy on it, for the time is come. |
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For the stones thereof have pleased thy servants: and they shall have pity on the earth thereof. |
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All the Gentiles shall fear thy name, O Lord, and all the kings of the earth thy glory. |
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For the Lord hath built up Sion: and he shall be seen in his glory. |
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He hath had regard to the prayer of the humble: and he hath not despised their petition. |
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Let these things be written unto another generation: and the people that shall be created shall praise the Lord: |
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Because he hath looked forth from his high sanctuary: from heaven the Lord hath looked upon the earth. |
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That he might hear the groans of them that are in fetters: that he might release the children of the slain: |
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That they may declare the name of the Lord in Sion: and his praise in Jerusalem; |
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When the people assemble together, and kings, to serve the Lord. |
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He answered him in the way of his strength: Declare unto me the fewness of my days. |
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Call me not away in the midst of my days: thy years are unto generation and generation. |
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In the beginning, O Lord, thou foundedst the earth: and the heavens are the works of thy hands. |
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They shall perish but thou remainest: and all of them shall grow old like a garment: And as a vesture thou shalt change them, and they shall be changed. |
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But thou art always the selfsame, and thy years shall not fail. |
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The children of thy servants shall continue and their seed shall be directed for ever. |
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