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Because of Your indignation and Your wrath; For You have lifted me up and cast me away.
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My days are like a shadow that lengthens, And I wither away like grass.
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But You, O Lord, shall endure forever, And the remembrance of Your name to all generations.
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You will arise and have mercy on Zion; For the time to favor her, Yes, the set time, has come.
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For Your servants take pleasure in her stones, And show favor to her dust.
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So the nations shall fear the name of the Lord, And all the kings of the earth Your glory.
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For the Lord shall build up Zion; He shall appear in His glory.
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He shall regard the prayer of the destitute, And shall not despise their prayer.
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This will be written for the generation to come, That a people yet to be created may praise the Lord.
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For He looked down from the height of His sanctuary; From heaven the Lord viewed the earth,
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To hear the groaning of the prisoner, To release those appointed to death,