PsalmsChapter 102

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¹A prayer of someone who is suffering, when he is weak and pours out his sorrow to the LORD.
LORD, hear my prayer.
Let my cry for help come to you. ²Don't hide your face from me when I'm in trouble.
Bend down and listen to me.
Answer me quickly when I call. ³For my days disappear like smoke.
My bones burn like hot coals. ⁴My heart is hurting.
It is dried up like grass.
I even forget to eat my bread. ⁵I groan so loud and so long
that I am nothing but skin and bones. ⁶I am like an owl in the desert,
like an owl among the ruins. ⁷I lie awake.
I am like a lonely bird on a rooftop. ⁸All day long my enemies mock me.
They make fun of me and use my name as a curse. ⁹For I have eaten ashes as if they were bread.
I have mixed my drink with tears ¹⁰because of your anger and fury.
You have picked me up and thrown me aside. ¹¹My days are like the long shadows of evening.
I dry up like grass. ¹²But you, LORD, sit on your throne forever.
Your fame lasts for all generations. ¹³You will rise up and have pity on Zion,
for it is time to show her kindness.
The set time has come. ¹⁴For your servants love her stones.
They feel sorry for her dust. ¹⁵Then the nations will fear the name of the LORD.
All the kings of the earth will fear your glory. ¹⁶For the LORD will build Zion again.
He has shown up in his glory. ¹⁷He will turn and listen to the prayer of people in need.
He will not turn away from their prayer. ¹⁸Let this be written down for the people to come.
Then people not yet born will praise the LORD. ¹⁹For the LORD looked down from his holy place on high.
He looked down from heaven to earth ²⁰to hear the groans of prisoners
and to set free those who were sentenced to die. ²¹Then they will tell about the name of the LORD in Zion.
They will praise him in Jerusalem ²²when peoples and kingdoms gather
to serve the LORD. ²³He has broken my strength along the way.
He has cut my life short. ²⁴I say, "My God, don't take me away
in the middle of my life!
Your years go on through all generations. ²⁵In the beginning you laid the foundations of the earth.
The heavens are the work of your hands. ²⁶They will perish, but you will stay.
They will all wear out like old clothes.
You will change them like clothes,
and they will pass away. ²⁷But you stay the same.
Your years will never end. ²⁸The children of your servants will live safely.
Their children will be made secure before you."