Psalms 102:13-28

You will rise up and have compassion on Zion, for it is time to show favor to her — the appointed time has come.  For your servants take delight in its stones and favor its dust.  Then the nations will fear the name of the  LORD, and all the kings of the earth your glory,  for the LORD will rebuild Zion; he will appear in his glory.  He will pay attention to the prayer of the destitute and will not despise their prayer.  This will be written for a later generation, and a people who have not yet been created will praise the  LORD:  He looked down from his holy heights — the LORD gazed out from heaven to earth   — to hear a prisoner’s groaning, to set free those condemned to die,  , so that they might declare the name of the  LORD in Zion and his praise in Jerusalem  when peoples and kingdoms are assembled to serve the  LORD.  He has broken my   strength in midcourse; he has shortened my days.  I say, “My God, do not take me in the middle of my life!  Your years continue through all generations.  Long ago you established the earth, and the heavens are the work of your hands.  They will perish, but you will endure; all of them will wear out like clothing. You will change them like a garment, and they will pass away.  But you are the same, and your years will never end.  Your servants’ children will dwell securely, and their offspring will be established before you.”