Psalm 102
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Psalm 102
A prayer of a suffering person who has become weak. They pour out their problems to the Lord.
1 Lord, hear my prayer.
Listen to my cry for help.
2Don’t turn your face away from me
when I’m in trouble.
Pay attention to me.
When I call out for help, answer me quickly.
3My days are disappearing like smoke.
My body burns like glowing coals.
4My strength has dried up like grass.
I even forget to eat my food.
5I groan out loud because of my suffering.
I’m nothing but skin and bones.
6I’m like a desert owl.
I’m like an owl among destroyed buildings.
7I can’t sleep. I’ve become
like a bird alone on a roof.
8All day long my enemies laugh at me.
Those who make fun of me use my name as a curse.
9I eat ashes as my food.
My tears fall into what I’m drinking.
10You were very angry with me.
So you picked me up and threw me away.
11The days of my life are like an evening shadow.
I dry up like grass.
12But Lord, you are seated on your throne forever.
Your fame will continue for all time to come.
13You will rise up and show deep concern for Zion.
The time has come for you to help Zion.
14The stones of your destroyed city are priceless to us.
Even its dust brings deep concern to us.
15The nations will worship the Lord.
All the kings on earth will respect his glorious power.
16The Lord will build Zion again.
He will appear in his glory.
17He will answer the prayer of those who don’t have anything.
He won’t say no to their cry for help.
18Let this be written down for those born after us.
Then people who are not yet born can praise the Lord.
19Here is what should be written.
“The Lord looked down from his temple in heaven.
From heaven he viewed the earth.
20He heard the groans of the prisoners.
He set free those who were sentenced to death.”
21So people will talk about him in Zion.
They will praise him in Jerusalem.
22Nations and kingdoms
will gather there to worship the Lord.
23When I was still young, he took away my strength.
He wasn’t going to let me live much longer.
24So I said, “My God, don’t let me die in the middle of my life.
You will live for all time to come.
25In the beginning you made the earth secure.
You placed it on its foundations.
Your hands created the heavens.
26They will pass away. But you will remain.
They will all wear out like a piece of clothing.
You will make them like clothes
that are taken off and thrown away.
27But you remain the same.
Your years will never end.
28Our children will live with you.
Their sons and daughters will be safe in your care.”
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Psalms 102
102
A Prayer of the afflicted, when he is overwhelmed, And poureth out his complaint before the LORD.
1Hear my prayer, O LORD,
And let my cry come unto thee.
2Hide not thy face from me in the day of my distress:
Incline thine ear unto me;
In the day when I call answer me speedily.
3For my days consume away like smoke,
And my bones are burned as a firebrand.
4My heart is smitten like grass, and withered;
For I forget to eat my bread.
5By reason of the voice of my groaning
My bones cleave to my flesh.
6I am like a pelican of the wilderness;
I am become as an owl of the waste places.
7I watch, and am become
Like a sparrow that is alone upon the housetop.
8Mine enemies reproach me all the day;
They that are mad against me do curse by me.
9For I have eaten ashes like bread,
And mingled my drink with weeping.
10Because of thine indignation and thy wrath:
For thou hast taken me up, and cast me away.
11My days are like a shadow that declineth;
And I am withered like grass.
12But thou, O LORD, shalt abide for ever;
And thy memorial unto all generations.
13Thou shalt arise, and have mercy upon Zion:
For it is time to have pity upon her, yea, the set time is come.
14For thy servants take pleasure in her stones,
And have pity upon her dust.
15So the nations shall fear the name of the LORD,
And all the kings of the earth thy glory:
16For the LORD hath built up Zion,
He hath appeared in his glory;
17He hath regarded the prayer of the destitute,
And hath not despised their prayer.
18This shall be written for the generation to come:
And a people which shall be created shall praise the LORD.
19For he hath looked down from the height of his sanctuary;
From heaven did the LORD behold the earth;
20To hear the sighing of the prisoner;
To loose those that are appointed to death;
21That men may declare the name of the LORD in Zion,
And his praise in Jerusalem;
22When the peoples are gathered together,
And the kingdoms, to serve the LORD.
23He weakened my strength in the way;
He shortened my days.
24I said, O my God, take me not away in the midst of my days:
Thy years are throughout all generations.
25Of old hast thou laid the foundation of the earth;
And the heavens are the work of thy hands.
26They shall perish, but thou shalt endure:
Yea, all of them shall wax old like a garment;
As a vesture shalt thou change them, and they shall be changed:
27But thou art the same,
And thy years shall have no end.
28The children of thy servants shall continue,
And their seed shall be established before thee.
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