Psalms 102
- 1 Hear my prayer, O LORD, and let my cry come unto you.
- 2 Hide not your face from me in the day when I am in trouble; incline yours ear unto me: in the day when I call answer me speedily.
- 3 For my days are consumed like smoke, and my bones are burned as an hearth.
- 4 My heart is smitten, and withered like grass; so that I forget to eat my bread.
- 5 By reason of the voice of my groaning my bones cleave to my skin.
- 6 I am like a pelican of the wilderness: I am like an owl of the desert.
- 7 I watch, and am as a sparrow alone upon the house top.
- 8 Mine enemies reproach me all the day; and they that are mad against me are sworn against me.
- 9 For I have eaten ashes like bread, and mingled my drink with weeping.
- 10 Because of yours indignation and your wrath: for you have lifted me up, and cast me down.
- 11 My days are like a shadow that declines; and I am withered like grass.
- 12 But you, O LORD, shall endure for ever; and your remembrance unto all generations.
- 13 You shall arise, and have mercy upon Zion: for the time to favour her, yea, the set time, has come.
- 14 For your servants take pleasure in her stones, and favour the dust thereof.
- 15 So the heathen shall fear the name of the LORD, and all the kings of the earth your glory.
- 16 When the LORD shall build up Zion, he shall appear in his glory.
- 17 He will regard the prayer of the destitute, and not despise their prayer.
- 18 This shall be written for the generation to come: and the people which shall be created shall praise the LORD.
- 19 For he has looked down from the height of his sanctuary; from heaven did the LORD behold the earth;
- 20 To hear the groaning of the prisoner; to loose those that are appointed to death;
- 21 To declare the name of the LORD in Zion, and his praise in Jerusalem;
- 22 When the people are gathered together, and the kingdoms, to serve the LORD.
- 23 He weakened my strength in the way; he shortened my days.
- 24 I said, O my God, take me not away in the midst of my days: your years are throughout all generations.
- 25 Of old have you laid the foundation of the earth: and the heavens are the work of your hands.
- 26 They shall perish, but you shall endure: yea, all of them shall wax old like a garment; as a vesture shall you change them, and they shall be changed:
- 27 But you are the same, and your years shall have no end.
- 28 The children of your servants shall continue, and their seed shall be established before you.
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