Psalms 102
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Psalm 102
Prayer to the Eternal King for Help
A prayer of one afflicted, when faint and pleading before the LORD.
1 #
1 Sam 9.16
Hear my prayer, O LORD;
let my cry come to you.
2 #
Ps 69.17; 71.2 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 #
Job 30.30; Ps 31.10; Jas 4.14 For my days pass away like smoke,
and my bones burn like a furnace.
4 #
Ps 37.2
My heart is stricken and withered like grass;
I am too wasted to eat my bread.
5 #
Lam 4.8
Because of my loud groaning,
my bones cling to my skin.
6 #
Isa 34.11
I am like a desert owl#102.6 Meaning of Heb uncertain of the wilderness,
like a little owl of the waste places.
7 #
Ps 38.11; 77.4 I lie awake;
I am like a lonely bird on the housetop.
8 #
Acts 23.12; 26.11 All day long my enemies taunt me;
those who deride me use my name for a curse.
9 #
Ps 42.3
Indeed, I eat ashes like bread
and mingle tears with my drink,
10because of your indignation and anger,
for you have lifted me up and thrown me aside.
11 #
v 4
; Job 14.2My days are like a lengthening shadow;
I wither away like grass.
12 #
Ps 135.13; Lam 5.19 But you, O LORD, are enthroned forever;
your name endures to all generations.
13 #
Ps 75.2; Isa 60.10 You will rise up and have compassion on Zion,
for it is time to favor it;
the appointed time has come.
14For your servants hold its stones dear
and have pity on its dust.
15 #
1 Kings 8.43; Ps 138.4 The nations will fear the name of the LORD
and all the kings of the earth your glory.
16 #
Isa 60.1, 2 For the LORD will build up Zion;
he will appear in his glory.
17 #
Neh 1.6
He will regard the prayer of the destitute
and will not despise their prayer.
18 #
Ps 22.31; Rom 15.4 Let this be recorded for a generation to come,
so that a people yet unborn may praise the LORD:
19 #
Deut 26.15; Ps 33.13 that he looked down from his holy height,
from heaven the LORD looked at the earth,
20 #
Ps 79.11
to hear the groans of the prisoners,
to set free those who were doomed to die,
21 #
Ps 22.22
so that the name of the LORD may be declared in Zion
and his praise in Jerusalem,
22 #
Ps 86.9
when peoples gather together,
and kingdoms, to serve the LORD.
23 #
Job 21.21
He has broken my strength in midcourse;
he has shortened my days.
24 #
Isa 38.10; Hab 1.12 “O my God,” I say, “do not take me away
at the midpoint of my life,
you whose years endure
throughout all generations.”
25 #
Gn 1.1; Ps 96.5 Long ago you laid the foundation of the earth,
and the heavens are the work of your hands.
26 #
Isa 34.4; Mt 24.35; Rev 20.11 They will perish, but you endure;
they will all wear out like a garment.
You change them like clothing, and they pass away,
27 #
Mal 3.6; Jas 1.17 but you are the same, and your years have no end.
28 #
Ps 69.36; 89.4 The children of your servants shall live secure;
their offspring shall be established in your presence.
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