## Do Not Hide Your Face from Me 

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O Yahweh, hear my prayer! And let my cry for help come to You. 

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

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For my days have vanished in smoke, And my bones have been scorched like a hearth. 

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My heart has been stricken like grass and it has dried up, Indeed, I forget to eat my bread. 

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Because of the sound of my groaning My bones cling to my flesh. 

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I resemble a pelican of the wilderness; I have become like an owl of the waste places. 

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I lie awake, I have become like a lonely bird on a roof. 

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My enemies have reproached me all day long; Those who ridicule me swear against me. 

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For I have eaten ashes like bread And mixed my drinks with weeping 

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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 an outstretched shadow, And as for me, I dry up like grass. 

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But You, O Yahweh, abide forever, And the remembrance of Your _name_ from generation to generation. 

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You will arise _and_ have compassion on Zion-- For it is time to be gracious to it, For the appointed time has come. 

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For Your slaves find pleasure in its stones And show grace to its dust-- 

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So the nations will fear the name of Yahweh And all the kings of the earth Your glory. 

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For Yahweh has built up Zion; He has appeared in His glory. 

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He has turned toward the prayer of the destitute And has not despised their prayer. 

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This will be written for the generation to come, And a people yet to be created will praise Yah. 

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For He looked down from His holy height; From heaven Yahweh gazed upon the earth, 

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To hear the groaning of the prisoner, To set free those who were doomed to death, 

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To recount the name of Yahweh in Zion And His praise in Jerusalem, 

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When the peoples are gathered together, And the kingdoms, to serve Yahweh. 

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He has afflicted my strength in the way; He has shortened my days. 

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I say, "O my God, do not take me away in the midst of my days, Your years are from generation to _all_ generations. 

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Of old You founded the earth, And the heavens are the work of Your hands. 

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Even they will 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. 

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But You are the same, And Your years will not come to an end. 

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The children of Your slaves will dwell _securely_, And their seed will be established before You."