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Do Not Hide Your Face from Me

^1 (C1)O Yahweh, hear my prayer!
And let my cry for help ^(C2)come to You.

^2 (C1)Do not hide Your face from me in the day of my distress;
^(C2)Incline Your ear to me;
In the day when I call ^(C1)answer me quickly.

³ For my days ^(C1)have ^(F1)vanished in smoke,
And my ^(C2)bones have been scorched like a hearth.

⁴ My heart ^(C1)has been stricken like ^(F1)grass and it has ^(C2)dried up,
Indeed, I ^(C3)forget to eat my bread.

⁵ Because of the sound of my groaning
My ^(C1)bones ^(F1)cling to my flesh.

⁶ I resemble a ^(C1)pelican of the wilderness;
I have become like an owl of the waste places.

⁷ I ^(C1)lie awake,
I have become like a lonely bird on a roof.

⁸ My enemies ^(C1)have reproached me all day long;
Those who ^(F1)(C2)ridicule me ^(C3)swear against me.

⁹ For I have eaten ashes like bread
And ^(C1)mixed my drinks with weeping

^10 (C1)Because of Your indignation and Your wrath,
For You have ^(C2)lifted me up and cast me away.

¹¹ My days are like an ^(C1)outstretched shadow,
And as for me, I ^(C2)dry up like ^(F1)grass.

¹² But You, O Yahweh, ^(F1)(C1)abide forever,
And the ^(C2)remembrance of Your name ^(F2)from generation to generation.

¹³ You will ^(C1)arise and have ^(C2)compassion on Zion—
For ^(C3)it is time to be gracious to it,
For the ^(C4)appointed time has come.

¹⁴ For Your slaves ^(F1)find pleasure in its stones
And show grace to its dust—

^15 (F1)So the ^(F2)(C1)nations will fear the name of Yahweh
And ^(C2)all the kings of the earth Your glory.

¹⁶ For Yahweh has ^(C1)built up Zion;
He has ^(C2)appeared in His glory.

¹⁷ He has ^(C1)turned toward the prayer of the ^(F1)destitute
And has not despised their prayer.

^18 (F1)This will be ^(C1)written for the ^(C2)generation to come,
And ^(C3)a people yet to be created will praise Yah.

¹⁹ For He ^(C1)looked down from His holy height;
^(C2)From heaven Yahweh gazed ^(F1)upon the earth,

²⁰ To hear the ^(C1)groaning of the prisoner,
To ^(C2)set free ^(F1)those who were doomed to death,

²¹ To ^(C1)recount the name of Yahweh in Zion
And His praise in Jerusalem,

²² When ^(C1)the peoples are gathered together,
And the kingdoms, to serve Yahweh.

²³ He has afflicted my strength in the way;
He has ^(C1)shortened my days.

²⁴ I say, "O my God, ^(C1)do not take me away in the ^(F1)midst of my days,
Your ^(C2)years are from generation to all generations.

²⁵ "Of old You ^(C1)founded the earth,
And the ^(C2)heavens are the work of Your hands.

²⁶ "^(F1)Even they will ^(C1)perish, but You will remain;
And all of them will wear out like a garment;
Like clothing You will change them and they will be changed.

²⁷ "But You are ^(F1)(C1)the same,
And Your years will not come to an end.

²⁸ "The ^(C1)children of Your slaves will dwell securely,
And their ^(C2)seed will be established before You."