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Psalms 101
Septuagint (LXX2012) 101 compared with King James Version 102
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1(102) A Prayer for the Poor; when he is deeply afflicted, and pours out his supplication before the Lord. Hear my prayer, O Lord, and let my cry come to you.
1Hear my prayer, O Lord, and let my cry come unto thee.
2Turn not away your face from me: in the day [when] I am afflicted, incline your ear to me: in the day [when] I shall call upon you, speedily hear me .
2Hide not thy face from me in the day when I am in trouble; incline thine ear unto me: in the day when I call answer me speedily.
3For my days have vanished like smoke, and my bones have been parched like a stick.
3For my days are consumed like smoke, and my bones are burned as an hearth.
4I am blighted like grass, and my heart is dried up; for I have forgotten to eat my bread.
4My heart is smitten, and withered like grass; so that I forget to eat my bread.
5By reason of the voice of my groaning, my bone has cleaved to my flesh.
5By reason of the voice of my groaning my bones cleave to my skin.
6I have become like a pelican of the wilderness;
6I am like a pelican of the wilderness: I am like an owl of the desert.
7I have become like an owl in a ruined house. I have watched, and am become as a sparrow dwelling alone on a roof.
7I watch, and am as a sparrow alone upon the house top.
8All the day long my enemies have reproached me ; and they that praised me have sworn against me.
8Mine enemies reproach me all the day; and they that are mad against me are sworn against me.
9For I have eaten ashes as it were bread, and mingled my drink with weeping;
9For I have eaten ashes like bread, and mingled my drink with weeping,
10because of your anger and your wrath: for you have lifted me up, and dashed me down.
10Because of thine indignation and thy wrath: for thou hast lifted me up, and cast me down.
11My days have declined like a shadow ; and I am withered like grass.
11My days are like a shadow that declineth; and I am withered like grass.
12But you, Lord, endure for ever, and your memorial to generation and generation.
12But thou, O Lord, shalt endure for ever; and thy remembrance unto all generations.
13You shall arise, and have mercy upon Sion: for [it is] time to have mercy upon her, for the set timeis come.
13Thou shalt arise, and have mercy upon Zion: for the time to favour her, yea, the set time, is come.
14For your servants have taken pleasure in her stones, and they shall pity her dust .
14For thy servants take pleasure in her stones, and favour the dust thereof.
15So the nations shall fear your name, O Lord, and all kings your glory.
15So the heathen shall fear the name of the Lord, and all the kings of the earth thy glory.
16For the Lord shall build up Sion, and shall appear in his glory.
16When the Lord shall build up Zion, he shall appear in his glory.
17He has had regard to the prayer of the lowly, and has not despised their petition.
17He will regard the prayer of the destitute, and not despise their prayer.
18Let this be written for another generation; and the people that shall be created shall praise the Lord.
18This shall be written for the generation to come: and the people which shall be created shall praise the Lord.
19For he has looked out from the height of his sanctuary; the Lord looked upon the earth from heaven;
19For he hath looked down from the height of his sanctuary; from heaven did the Lord behold the earth;
20to hear the groaning of the fettered ones, to loosen the sons of the slain;
20To hear the groaning of the prisoner; to loose those that are appointed to death;
21to proclaim the name of the Lord in Sion, and his praise in Jerusalem;
21To declare the name of the Lord in Zion, and his praise in Jerusalem;
22when the people are gathered together, and the kings, to serve the Lord.
22When the people are gathered together, and the kingdoms, to serve the Lord.
23He answered him in the way of his strength: tell me the fewness of my days.
23He weakened my strength in the way; he shortened my days.
24Take me not away in the midst of my days: your years [are] through all generations.
24I said, O my God, take me not away in the midst of my days: thy years are throughout all generations.
25In the beginning you, O Lord, did lay the foundation of the earth; and the heavens are the works of your hands.
25Of old hast thou laid the foundation of the earth: and the heavens are the work of thy hands.
26They shall perish, but you remain: and [they all] shall wax old as a garment; and as a vesture shall you fold them, and they shall be changed.
26They shall perish, but thou shalt endure: yea, all of them shall wax old like a garment; as a vesture shalt thou change them, and they shall be changed:
27But you are the same, and your years shall not fail.
27But thou art the same, and thy years shall have no end.
28The children of your servants shall dwell [securely], and their seed shall prosper for ever.
28The children of thy servants shall continue, and their seed shall be established before thee.