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         <div class="label">102</div><div class="s"><span class="heading">A Prayer of the afflicted; when he is overwhelmed {and} faint and pours out his complaint to God.</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.102.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content"> HEAR MY prayer, O Lord, and let my cry come to You.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.102.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content"> Hide not Your face from me in the day when I am in distress! Incline Your ear to me; in the day when I call, answer me speedily.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.102.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content"> For my days consume away like smoke, and my bones burn like a firebrand </span><span class="it"><span class="content">or</span></span><span class="content"> like a hearth.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.102.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content"> My heart is smitten like grass and withered, so that [in absorption] I forget to eat my food.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.102.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content"> By reason of my loud groaning [from suffering and trouble] my flesh cleaves to my bones.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.102.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content"> I am like a melancholy pelican </span><span class="it"><span class="content">or</span></span><span class="content"> vulture of the wilderness; I am like a [desolate] owl of the waste places.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.102.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content"> I am sleepless </span><span class="it"><span class="content">and</span></span><span class="content"> lie awake [mourning], like a bereaved sparrow alone on the housetop.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.102.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content"> My adversaries taunt </span><span class="it"><span class="content">and</span></span><span class="content"> reproach me all the day; and they who are angry with me use my name as a curse.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.102.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content"> For I have eaten the ashes [in which I sat] as if they were bread and have mingled my drink with weeping</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.102.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content"> Because of Your indignation and Your wrath, for You have taken me up and cast me away.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.102.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content"> My days are like an evening shadow that stretches out </span><span class="it"><span class="content">and</span></span><span class="content"> declines [with the sun]; and I am withered like grass.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.102.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content"> But You, O Lord, are enthroned forever; and the fame of Your name endures to all generations.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PSA.102.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content"> You will arise </span><span class="it"><span class="content">and</span></span><span class="content"> have mercy </span><span class="it"><span class="content">and</span></span><span class="content"> loving-kindness for Zion, for it is time to have pity </span><span class="it"><span class="content">and</span></span><span class="content"> compassion for her; yes, the set time has come [the moment designated]. [Ps. 12:5; 119:126.]</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PSA.102.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content"> For Your servants take [melancholy] pleasure in the stones [of her ruins] and show pity for her dust.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PSA.102.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content"> So the nations shall fear </span><span class="it"><span class="content">and</span></span><span class="content"> worshipfully revere the name of the Lord, and all the kings of the earth Your glory. [Ps. 96:9.]</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PSA.102.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content"> When the Lord builds up Zion, He will appear in His glory;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PSA.102.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content"> He will regard the plea of the destitute and will not despise their prayer.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PSA.102.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content"> Let this be recorded for the generation yet unborn, that a people yet to be created shall praise the Lord.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PSA.102.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content"> For He looked down from the height of His sanctuary, from heaven did the Lord behold the earth,</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="PSA.102.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content"> To hear the sighing </span><span class="it"><span class="content">and</span></span><span class="content"> groaning of the prisoner, to loose those who are appointed to death,</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="PSA.102.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content"> So that men may declare the name of the Lord in Zion and His praise in Jerusalem</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="PSA.102.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content"> When peoples are gathered together, and the kingdoms, to worship </span><span class="it"><span class="content">and</span></span><span class="content"> serve the Lord.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="PSA.102.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content"> He has afflicted </span><span class="it"><span class="content">and</span></span><span class="content"> weakened my strength, humbling </span><span class="it"><span class="content">and</span></span><span class="content"> bringing me low [with sorrow] in the way; He has shortened my days [aging me prematurely].</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="PSA.102.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content"> I said, O my God, take me not away in the midst of my days, You Whose years continue throughout all generations.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="PSA.102.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content"> At the beginning You existed </span><span class="it"><span class="content">and</span></span><span class="content"> laid the foundations of the earth; the heavens are the work of Your hands.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="PSA.102.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content"> They shall perish, but You shall remain </span><span class="it"><span class="content">and</span></span><span class="content"> endure; yes, all of them shall wear out </span><span class="it"><span class="content">and</span></span><span class="content"> become old like a garment. Like clothing You shall change them, and they shall be changed </span><span class="it"><span class="content">and</span></span><span class="content"> pass away.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="PSA.102.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content"> But You remain the same, and Your years shall have no end. [Heb. 1:10-12.]</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="PSA.102.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content"> The children of Your servants shall dwell safely </span><span class="it"><span class="content">and</span></span><span class="content"> continue, and their descendants shall be established before You.</span></span></div>
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1954, 1958, 1962, 1964, 1965, 1987 by The Lockman Foundation

HEAR MY prayer, O Lord, and let my cry come to You.
Hide not Your face from me in the day when I am in distress! Incline Your ear to me; in the day when I call, answer me speedily.
For my days consume away like smoke, and my bones burn like a firebrand or like a hearth.
My heart is smitten like grass and withered, so that [in absorption] I forget to eat my food.
By reason of my loud groaning [from suffering and trouble] my flesh cleaves to my bones.
I am like a melancholy pelican or vulture of the wilderness; I am like a [desolate] owl of the waste places.
I am sleepless and lie awake [mourning], like a bereaved sparrow alone on the housetop.
My adversaries taunt and reproach me all the day; and they who are angry with me use my name as a curse.
For I have eaten the ashes [in which I sat] as if they were bread and have mingled my drink with weeping
Because of Your indignation and Your wrath, for You have taken me up and cast me away.
My days are like an evening shadow that stretches out and declines [with the sun]; and I am withered like grass.
But You, O Lord, are enthroned forever; and the fame of Your name endures to all generations.
You will arise and have mercy and loving-kindness for Zion, for it is time to have pity and compassion for her; yes, the set time has come [the moment designated]. [Ps. 12:5; 119:126.]
For Your servants take [melancholy] pleasure in the stones [of her ruins] and show pity for her dust.
So the nations shall fear and worshipfully revere the name of the Lord, and all the kings of the earth Your glory. [Ps. 96:9.]
When the Lord builds up Zion, He will appear in His glory;
He will regard the plea of the destitute and will not despise their prayer.
Let this be recorded for the generation yet unborn, that a people yet to be created shall praise the Lord.
For He looked down from the height of His sanctuary, from heaven did the Lord behold the earth,
To hear the sighing and groaning of the prisoner, to loose those who are appointed to death,
So that men may declare the name of the Lord in Zion and His praise in Jerusalem
When peoples are gathered together, and the kingdoms, to worship and serve the Lord.
He has afflicted and weakened my strength, humbling and bringing me low [with sorrow] in the way; He has shortened my days [aging me prematurely].
I said, O my God, take me not away in the midst of my days, You Whose years continue throughout all generations.
At the beginning You existed and laid the foundations of the earth; the heavens are the work of Your hands.
They shall perish, but You shall remain and endure; yes, all of them shall wear out and become old like a garment. Like clothing You shall change them, and they shall be changed and pass away.
But You remain the same, and Your years shall have no end. [Heb. 1:10-12.]
The children of Your servants shall dwell safely and continue, and their descendants shall be established before You.

සවන් දෙන්න Psalm 102