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25 I plead, O my God,
    do not take me in the midst of my days.[a](A)
    Your years last through all generations.
26 Of old you laid the earth’s foundations;(B)
    the heavens are the work of your hands.
27 They perish, but you remain;
    they all wear out like a garment;
Like clothing you change them and they are changed,

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Footnotes

  1. 102:25 In the midst of my days: when the normal span of life is but half completed, cf. Is 38:10; Jer 17:11.

25 In the beginning(A) you laid the foundations of the earth,
    and the heavens(B) are the work of your hands.(C)
26 They will perish,(D) but you remain;
    they will all wear out like a garment.
Like clothing you will change them
    and they will be discarded.
27 But you remain the same,(E)
    and your years will never end.(F)

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