Jubilee2000 - Psalms - 102

102:1  <> Hear my prayer, O LORD, and let my cry come unto thee.

102:2  Hide not thy face from me in the day [when] I am in trouble; incline thine ear unto me; in the day [when] I call, answer me speedily.

102:3  For my days are consumed like smoke, and my bones are burned as [in] a hearth.

102:4  My heart is smitten and withered like grass so that I forget to eat my bread.

102:5  By reason of the voice of my groaning, my bones cleave to my skin.

102:6  I am like a pelican of the wilderness; I am like an owl of the desert.

102:7  I watch and am as a sparrow alone upon the house top.

102:8  My enemies reproach me all the day, [and] those that are mad against me are sworn against me.

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

102:10  because of thine indignation and thy wrath; for thou hast lifted me up and cast me down.

102:11  My days [are] like a shadow that declines, and I am withered like grass.

102:12  But thou, O LORD, shalt endure for ever and thy remembrance unto all generations.

102:13  Thou shalt arise [and] have mercy upon Zion; for the time to favour her, the set time, is come.

102:14  For thy servants love her stones and have compassion on the dust thereof.

102:15  So the Gentiles shall fear the name of the LORD, and all the kings of the earth thy glory

102:16  because the LORD shall have built up Zion, and he shall be seen in his glory.

102:17  He shall have regarded the prayer of those who are [alone and] destitute and not despised their prayer.

102:18  This shall be written for the generation to come, and the people who shall be created shall praise JAH.

102:19  For he has looked down from the height of his sanctuary; from the heavens the LORD beheld the earth

102:20  to hear the groaning of the prisoner; to loose those that are appointed to death,

102:21  that they might declare the name of the LORD in Zion and his praise in Jerusalem,

102:22  when the people are gathered together [as one] and the kingdoms, to serve the LORD.

102:23  He weakened my strength in the way; he shortened my days.

102:24  I said, O my God, do not cut me off in the midst of my days; thy years [are] from generation to generation.

102:25  Of old thou hast laid the foundation of the earth; and the heavens [are] the work of thy hands.

102:26  They shall perish, but thou shalt endure: yea, all of them shall wax old like a garment; as a vesture thou shalt change them, and they shall be changed:

102:27  But thou [art] the same, and thy years shall have no end.

102:28  The sons of thy servants shall continue, and their seed shall be established before thee.: