Psalms - Chapter 102 | Good News Translation

  • 1. Listen to my prayer, O LORD, and hear my cry for help!
  • 2. When I am in trouble, don't turn away from me! Listen to me, and answer me quickly when I call!
  • 3. My life is disappearing like smoke; my body is burning like fire.
  • 4. I am beaten down like dry grass; I have lost my desire for food.
  • 5. I groan aloud; I am nothing but skin and bones.
  • 6. I am like a wild bird in the desert, like an owl in abandoned ruins.
  • 7. I lie awake; I am like a lonely bird on a housetop.
  • 8. All day long my enemies insult me; those who mock me use my name in cursing.
  • 9. Because of your anger and fury, ashes are my food, and my tears are mixed with my drink. You picked me up and threw me away.
  • 10. {cf15I (SEE 102:9)}
  • 11. My life is like the evening shadows; I am like dry grass.
  • 12. But you, O LORD, are king forever; all generations will remember you.
  • 13. You will rise and take pity on Zion; the time has come to have mercy on her; this is the right time.
  • 14. Your servants love her, even though she is destroyed; they have pity on her, even though she is in ruins.
  • 15. The nations will fear the LORD; all the kings of the earth will fear his power.
  • 16. When the LORD rebuilds Zion, he will reveal his greatness.
  • 17. He will hear his forsaken people and listen to their prayer.
  • 18. Write down for the coming generation what the LORD has done, so that people not yet born will praise him.
  • 19. The LORD looked down from his holy place on high, he looked down from heaven to earth.
  • 20. He heard the groans of prisoners and set free those who were condemned to die.
  • 21. And so his name will be proclaimed in Zion, and he will be praised in Jerusalem
  • 22. when nations and kingdoms come together and worship the LORD.
  • 23. The LORD has made me weak while I am still young; he has shortened my life.
  • 24. O God, do not take me away now before I grow old. O LORD, you live forever;
  • 25. long ago you created the earth, and with your own hands you made the heavens.
  • 26. They will disappear, but you will remain; they will all wear out like clothes. You will discard them like clothes, and they will vanish.
  • 27. But you are always the same, and your life never ends.
  • 28. Our children will live in safety, and under your protection their descendants will be secure.
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