14. For Your servants take pleasure in her stones,and have pity on 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 will regard the prayer of the destituteand will not despise their prayer.
18. Let this be written for the generation to come,that a people who shall be created shall praise the Lord.
19. For He has looked down from the height of His sanctuary;from heaven the Lord looked down on the earth,
20. to hear the groaning of the prisonersand to set free those who are appointed to death,
21. that they may declare the name of the Lord in Zionand His praise in Jerusalem;
22. when the peoples are gathered together,and the kingdoms, to serve the Lord.
23. He has weakened my strength in my midlife;He has shortened my days.
24. I said,“O my God, do not take me away in the midst of my days—Your years endure throughout all generations.”