13. You will arise and have mercy and loving-kindness for Zion, for it is time to have pity and compassion for her; yes, the set time has come [the moment designated]. [Ps. 12:5; 119:126.]
14. For Your servants take [melancholy] pleasure in the stones [of her ruins] and show pity for her dust.
15. So the nations shall fear and worshipfully revere the name of the Lord, and all the kings of the earth Your glory. [Ps. 96:9.]
16. When the Lord builds up Zion, He will appear in His glory;
17. He will regard the plea of the destitute and will not despise their prayer.
18. Let this be recorded for the generation yet unborn, that a people yet to be created shall praise the Lord.
19. For He looked down from the height of His sanctuary, from heaven did the Lord behold the earth,
20. To hear the sighing and groaning of the prisoner, to loose those who are appointed to death,
21. So that men may declare the name of the Lord in Zion and His praise in Jerusalem
22. When peoples are gathered together, and the kingdoms, to worship and serve the Lord.
23. He has afflicted and weakened my strength, humbling and bringing me low [with sorrow] in the way; He has shortened my days [aging me prematurely].