• The Lord’s Eternal Love

  • 1 Hear my prayer, O Lord, And let my cry come to You.
  • 2 Do not hide Your face from me in the day of my trouble; Incline Your ear to me; In the day that I call, answer me speedily.
  • 3 For my days are consumed like smoke, And my bones are burned like a hearth.
  • 4 My heart is stricken and withered like grass, So that I forget to eat my bread.
  • 5 Because of the sound of my groaning My bones cling to my skin.
  • 6 I am like a pelican of the wilderness; I am like an owl of the desert.
  • 7 I lie awake, And am like a sparrow alone on the housetop.
  • 8 My enemies reproach me all day long; Those who deride me swear an oath against me.
  • 9 For I have eaten ashes like bread, And mingled my drink with weeping,
  • 10 Because of Your indignation and Your wrath; For You have lifted me up and cast me away.
  • 11 My days are like a shadow that lengthens, And I wither away like grass.
  • 12 But You, O Lord, shall endure forever, And the remembrance of Your name to all generations.
  • 13 You will arise and have mercy on Zion; For the time to favor her, Yes, the set time, has come.
  • 14 For Your servants take pleasure in her stones, And show favor to her dust.
  • 15 So the nations shall fear the name of the Lord, And all the kings of the earth Your glory.
  • 16 For the Lord shall build up Zion; He shall appear in His glory.
  • 17 He shall regard the prayer of the destitute, And shall not despise their prayer.
  • 18 This will be written for the generation to come, That a people yet to be created may praise the Lord.
  • 19 For He looked down from the height of His sanctuary; From heaven the Lord viewed the earth,
  • 20 To hear the groaning of the prisoner, To release those appointed to death,
  • 21 To declare the name of the Lord in Zion, And His praise in Jerusalem,
  • 22 When the peoples are gathered together, And the kingdoms, to serve the Lord.
  • 23 He weakened my strength in the way; He shortened my days.
  • 24 I said, “O my God, Do not take me away in the midst of my days; Your years are throughout all generations.
  • 25 Of old You laid the foundation of the earth, And the heavens are the work of Your hands.
  • 26 They will perish, but You will endure; Yes, they will all grow old like a garment; Like a cloak You will change them, And they will be changed.
  • 27 But You are the same, And Your years will have no end.
  • 28 The children of Your servants will continue, And their descendants will be established before You.”