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 You will arise and have compassion on Zion, for it is time to have mercy upon her; * indeed, the appointed time has come.

For your servants love her very rubble, * and are moved to pity even for her dust.

The nations shall fear your Name, O, * and all the kings of the earth your glory.

For the will build up Zion, * and his glory will appear.

He will look with favor on the prayer of the homeless; * he will not despise their plea.

Let this be written for a future generation, * so that a people yet unborn may praise the.

For the looked down from his holy place on high; * from the heavens he beheld the earth;

That he might hear the groan of the captive * and set free those condemned to die;

That they may declare in Zion the Name of the, * and his praise in Jerusalem;

When the peoples are gathered together, * and the kingdoms also, to serve the.

He has brought down my strength before my time; * he has shortened the number of my days;

And I said, “O my God, do not take me away in the midst of my days; * your years endure throughout all generations.

In the beginning, O, you laid the foundations of the earth, * and the heavens are the work of your hands;