Chapter 153

When the People obtained permission from Koresh to return home.

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O Yahuah, I have cried unto you; hearken unto me.

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I have lifted up my hands to your holy dwellingplace; incline your ear unto me.

3

And grant me my request; my prayer withhold not from me.

4

Build up my soul, and destroy it not; and lay it not bare before the wicked.

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Them that recompense evil things turn you away from me, O Judge of Truth.

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O Yahuah, judge me not according to my sins, because no flesh is innocent before you.

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Make plain to me, O Yahuah, your Torah, and teach me your judgments;

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and many shall hear of your works, and the nations shall praise your honor.

9

Remember me and forget me not; and lead me not into things that be too hard for me.

10

The sins of my youth make you to pass from me, and in my chastisement let them not be against me.

11

Cleanse me, O Yahuah, from the evil leprosy, and let it no more come unto me.

12

Dry up its roots in me, and let not its leaves sprout within me.

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Great are you, O Yahuah; therefore my request shall be fulfilled from before you.

14

To whom shall I complain that he may give unto me? And what can the strength of men add unto me?

15

From before you, O Yahuah, is my confidence; I cried unto Yahuah and he heard me, and healed the breaking of my heart.

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I slumbered and slept; I dreamed and was helped, and Yahuah sustained me.

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They sorely pained my heart; I will return thanks because Yahuah delivered me.

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Now will I rejoice in their shame; I have hoped in you, and I shall not be ashamed.

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Give you honour forever, even forever and ever.

20

Deliver Yashar'el your elect, and them of the house of Ya`aqov your proved one.



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