But You, O LORD, sit enthroned forever;
But the LORD sits enthroned forever, remembered through every generation.
This verse turns from mortal fading to divine permanence.
1A prayer of one who is afflicted, when he grows faint and pours out his lament before the LORD. 2Do not hide Your face from me 3For my days vanish like smoke, 4My heart is afflicted, and withered like grass; 5Through my loud groaning 6I am like a desert owl, 7I lie awake; 8All day long my enemies taunt me; 9For I have eaten ashes like bread 10because of Your indignation and wrath, 11My days are like lengthening shadows, 12But You, O LORD, sit enthroned forever; 13You will rise up and have compassion on Zion, 14For Your servants delight in her stones 15So the nations will fear the name of the LORD, 16For the LORD will rebuild Zion; 17He will turn toward the prayer of the destitute; 18Let this be written for the generation to come, 19For He looked down from the heights of His sanctuary; 20to hear a prisoner’s groaning, 21that they may proclaim the name of the LORD in Zion 22when peoples and kingdoms assemble 23He has broken my strength on the way; 24I say: “O my God, do not take me in the midst of my days! 25In the beginning You laid the foundations of the earth, 26They will perish, but You remain; 27But You remain the same, 28The children of Your servants will dwell securely,