AB - Psalms - 102

102:1  Hear my prayer, O Lord, and let my cry come to You.

102:2  Do not hide Your face from me in the day of my trouble; incline Your ear to me; in the day when I shall call upon You, speedily hear me.

102:3  For my days have vanished like smoke, and my bones have been parched like a stick.

102:4  I am blighted like grass, and my heart is dried up; for I have forgotten to eat my bread.

102:5  By reason of the voice of my groaning, my bones has cleaved to my flesh.

102:6  I have become like a pelican of the wilderness;

102:7  I have become like an owl in a ruined house. I have watched, and have become as a sparrow dwelling alone on a roof.

102:8  All the day long my enemies have reproached me; and they that praised me have sworn against me.

102:9  For I have eaten ashes like bread, and mingled my drink with weeping;

102:10  because of Your anger and Your wrath; for You have lifted me up, and dashed me down.

102:11  My days have declined like a shadow; and I am withered like grass.

102:12  But You, O Lord, endure forever, and Your memorial from generation to generation.

102:13  You shall arise, and have mercy upon Zion; for it is time to have mercy upon her, for the appointed time has come.

102:14  For Your servants have taken pleasure in her stones, and they shall pity her dust.

102:15  So the nations shall fear Your name, O Lord, and all kings Your glory.

102:16  For the Lord shall build up Zion, and shall appear in His glory.

102:17  He has had regard to the prayer of the lowly, and has not despised their petition.

102:18  Let this be written for another generation; and the people that shall be created shall praise the Lord.

102:19  For He has looked out from the height of His sanctuary; the Lord looked upon the earth from heaven;

102:20  to hear the groaning of the fettered ones, to loosen the sons of the slain;

102:21  to proclaim the name of the Lord in Zion, and His praise in Jerusalem;

102:22  when the people have gathered together, and the kings, to serve the Lord.

102:23  He answered him in the way of His strength; tell me the fewness of my days.

102:24  Do not take me away in the midst of my days; Your years are through all generations.

102:25  In the beginning You, O Lord, laid the foundation of the earth; and the heavens are the works of Your hands.

102:26  They shall perish, but You remain; and they all shall grow old like a garment; and as a vesture shall You fold them, and they shall be changed.

102:27  But You are the same, and Your years shall not fail.

102:28  The children of Your servants shall dwell securely, and their seed shall prosper forever.