1 O Lord, hear my prayer ♦︎
and let my crying come before you.
2 Hide not your face from me ♦︎
in the day of my distress.
3 Incline your ear to me; ♦︎
when I call, make haste to answer me,
4 For my days are consumed in smoke ♦︎
and my bones burn away as in a furnace.
5 My heart is smitten down and withered like grass, ♦︎
so that I forget to eat my bread.
6 From the sound of my groaning ♦︎
my bones cleave fast to my skin.
7 I am become like a vulture in the wilderness, ♦︎
like an owl that haunts the ruins.
8 I keep watch and am become like a sparrow ♦︎
solitary upon the housetop.
9 My enemies revile me all the day long, ♦︎
and those who rage at me have sworn together against me.
10 I have eaten ashes for bread ♦︎
and mingled my drink with weeping,
11 Because of your indignation and wrath, ♦︎
for you have taken me up and cast me down.
12 My days fade away like a shadow, ♦︎
and I am withered like grass.
13 But you, O Lord, shall endure for ever ♦︎
and your name through all generations.
14 You will arise and have pity on Zion; ♦︎
it is time to have mercy upon her;
surely the time has come.
15 For your servants love her very stones ♦︎
and feel compassion for her dust.
16 Then shall the nations fear your name, O Lord, ♦︎
and all the kings of the earth your glory,
17 When the Lord has built up Zion ♦︎
and shown himself in glory;
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17 When Pharaoh let the people go, God did not lead them by way of the land of the Philistines, although that was nearer; for God thought, If the people face war, they may change their minds and return to Egypt. 18So God led the people by the roundabout way of the wilderness towards the Red Sea.* The Israelites went up out of the land of Egypt prepared for battle. 19And Moses took with him the bones of Joseph, who had required a solemn oath of the Israelites, saying, God will surely take notice of you, and then you must carry my bones with you from here. 20They set out from Succoth, and camped at Etham, on the edge of the wilderness. 21The Lord went in front of them in a pillar of cloud by day, to lead them along the way, and in a pillar of fire by night, to give them light, so that they might travel by day and by night. 22Neither the pillar of cloud by day nor the pillar of fire by night left its place in front of the people.
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17 But as the time drew near for the fulfilment of the promise that God had made to Abraham, our people in Egypt increased and multiplied 18until another king who had not known Joseph ruled over Egypt. 19He dealt craftily with our race and forced our ancestors to abandon their infants so that they would die. 20At this time Moses was born, and he was beautiful before God. For three months he was brought up in his fathers house; 21and when he was abandoned, Pharaohs daughter adopted him and brought him up as her own son. 22So Moses was instructed in all the wisdom of the Egyptians and was powerful in his words and deeds.
23 When he was forty years old, it came into his heart to visit his relatives, the Israelites.* 24When he saw one of them being wronged, he defended the oppressed man and avenged him by striking down the Egyptian. 25He supposed that his kinsfolk would understand that God through him was rescuing them, but they did not understand. 26The next day he came to some of them as they were quarrelling and tried to reconcile them, saying, Men, you are brothers; why do you wrong each other? 27But the man who was wronging his neighbour pushed Moses* aside, saying, Who made you a ruler and a judge over us? 28Do you want to kill me as you killed the Egyptian yesterday? 29When he heard this, Moses fled and became a resident alien in the land of Midian. There he became the father of two sons.
30 Now when forty years had passed, an angel appeared to him in the wilderness of Mount Sinai, in the flame of a burning bush. 31When Moses saw it, he was amazed at the sight; and as he approached to look, there came the voice of the Lord: 32I am the God of your ancestors, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. Moses began to tremble and did not dare to look. 33Then the Lord said to him, Take off the sandals from your feet, for the place where you are standing is holy ground. 34I have surely seen the mistreatment of my people who are in Egypt and have heard their groaning, and I have come down to rescue them. Come now, I will send you to Egypt.
35 It was this Moses whom they rejected when they said, Who made you a ruler and a judge? and whom God now sent as both ruler and liberator through the angel who appeared to him in the bush. 36He led them out, having performed wonders and signs in Egypt, at the Red Sea, and in the wilderness for forty years. 37This is the Moses who said to the Israelites, God will raise up a prophet for you from your own people* as he raised me up. 38He is the one who was in the congregation in the wilderness with the angel who spoke to him at Mount Sinai, and with our ancestors; and he received living oracles to give to us. 39Our ancestors were unwilling to obey him; instead, they pushed him aside, and in their hearts they turned back to Egypt, 40saying to Aaron, Make gods for us who will lead the way for us; as for this Moses who led us out from the land of Egypt, we do not know what has happened to him.
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