Psalms - Chapter 102 | English Standard Version

  • 1. A Prayer of one afflicted, when he is faint and pours out his complaint before the LORD. Hear my prayer, O LORD; let my cry come to you!
  • 2. Do not hide your face from me in the day of my distress! Incline your ear to me; answer me speedily in the day when I call!
  • 3. For my days pass away like smoke, and my bones burn like a furnace.
  • 4. My heart is struck down like grass and has withered; I forget to eat my bread.
  • 5. Because of my loud groaning my bones cling to my flesh.
  • 6. I am like a desert owl of the wilderness, like an owl of the waste places;
  • 7. I lie awake; I am like a lonely sparrow on the housetop.
  • 8. All the day my enemies taunt me; those who deride me use my name for a curse.
  • 9. For I eat ashes like bread and mingle tears with my drink,
  • 10. because of your indignation and anger; for you have taken me up and thrown me down.
  • 11. My days are like an evening shadow; I wither away like grass.
  • 12. But you, O LORD, are enthroned forever; you are remembered throughout all generations.
  • 13. You will arise and have pity on Zion; it is the time to favor her; the appointed time has come.
  • 14. For your servants hold her stones dear and have pity on her dust.
  • 15. Nations will fear the name of the LORD, and all the kings of the earth will fear your glory.
  • 16. For the LORD builds up Zion; he appears in his glory;
  • 17. he regards the prayer of the destitute and does not despise their prayer.
  • 18. Let this be recorded for a generation to come, so that a people yet to be created may praise the LORD:
  • 19. that he looked down from his holy height; from heaven the LORD looked at the earth,
  • 20. to hear the groans of the prisoners, to set free those who were doomed to die,
  • 21. that they may declare in Zion the name of the LORD, and in Jerusalem his praise,
  • 22. when peoples gather together, and kingdoms, to worship the LORD.
  • 23. He has broken my strength in midcourse; he has shortened my days.
  • 24. "O my God," I say, "take me not away in the midst of my days-- you whose years endure throughout all generations!"
  • 25. Of old you laid the foundation of the earth, and the heavens are the work of your hands.
  • 26. They will perish, but you will remain; they will all wear out like a garment. You will change them like a robe, and they will pass away,
  • 27. but you are the same, and your years have no end.
  • 28. The children of your servants shall dwell secure; their offspring shall be established before you.
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