Geneva1599 - Psalms - 102

102:1  A prayer of the afflicted, when he shall be in distresse, and pour forth his meditation before the Lord. O Lord, heare my prayer, and let my crye come vnto thee.

102:2  Hide not thy face from me in the time of my trouble: incline thine eares vnto me: when I call, make haste to heare me.

102:3  For my dayes are consumed like smoke, and my bones are burnt like an herthe.

102:4  Mine heart is smitten and withereth like grasse, because I forgate to eate my bread.

102:5  For the voyce of my groning my bones doe cleaue to my skinne.

102:6  I am like a pelicane of the wildernesse: I am like an owle of the deserts.

102:7  I watch and am as a sparrowe alone vpon the house top.

102:8  Mine enemies reuile me dayly, and they that rage against me, haue sworne against me.

102:9  Surely I haue eaten asshes as bread, and mingled my drinke with weeping,

102:10  Because of thine indignation and thy wrath: for thou hast heaued me vp, and cast me downe.

102:11  My dayes are like a shadowe that fadeth, and I am withered like grasse.

102:12  But thou, O Lord, doest remaine for euer, and thy remembrance from generation to generation.

102:13  Thou wilt arise and haue mercy vpon Zion: for the time to haue mercie thereon, for the appointed time is come.

102:14  For thy seruants delite in the stones thereof, and haue pitie on the dust thereof.

102:15  Then the heathen shall feare the Name of the Lord, and all the Kings of the earth thy glory,

102:16  When the Lord shall build vp Zion, and shall appeare in his glory,

102:17  And shall turne vnto the prayer of the desolate, and not despise their prayer.

102:18  This shall be written for the generation to come: and the people, which shalbe created, shall prayse the Lord.

102:19  For he hath looked downe from the height of his Sanctuarie: out of the heauen did the Lord beholde the earth,

102:20  That he might heare the mourning of the prisoner, and deliuer the children of death:

102:21  That they may declare the Name of the Lord in Zion, and his prayse in Ierusalem,

102:22  When the people shalbe gathered together, and the kingdomes to serue the Lord.

102:23  He abated my strength in the way, and shortened my dayes.

102:24  And I sayd, O my God, take me not away in the middes of my dayes: thy yeeres endure from generation to generation.

102:25  Thou hast aforetime layde the foundation of the earth, and the heauens are the worke of thine hands.

102:26  They shall perish, but thou shalt endure: euen they all shall waxe olde as doeth a garment: as a vesture shalt thou change them, and they shall be changed.

102:27  But thou art the same, and thy yeeres shall not fayle.

102:28  The children of thy seruants shall continue, and their seede shall stand fast in thy sight.