Psalms 102 Hear my prayer, O LORD, and let my cry come to thee.

ACV⁽ⁱ⁾ ¹ Hear my prayer, O LORD, and let my cry come to thee. ² Hide not thy face from me in the day of my distress. Incline thine ear to me. In the day when I call answer me speedily. ³ For my days consume away like smoke, and my bones are burned as a firebrand. ⁴ My heart is smitten like grass, and withered, for I forget to eat my bread. ⁵ Because of the voice of my groaning my bones cling to my flesh. ⁶ I am like a pelican of the wilderness. I have become as an owl of the waste places. ⁷ I watch, and have become like a sparrow that is alone upon the house-top. ⁸ My enemies reproach me all the day. Those who are mad against me do curse by me. ⁹ For I have eaten ashes like bread, and mingled my drink with weeping, ¹⁰ because of thine indignation and thy wrath. For thou have taken me up, and cast me away. ¹¹ My days are like a shadow that declines, and I am withered like grass. ¹² But thou, O LORD, will abide forever, and thy memorial to all generations. ¹³ Thou will arise, and have mercy upon Zion, for it is time to have pity upon her, yea, the set time has come. ¹⁴ For thy servants take pleasure in her stones, and have pity upon her dust. ¹⁵ So the nations shall fear the name of LORD, and all the kings of the earth thy glory. ¹⁶ For LORD has built up Zion. He has appeared in his glory. ¹⁷ He has regarded the prayer of the destitute, and has not despised their prayer. ¹⁸ This shall be written for the generation to come. And a people which shall be created shall praise LORD. ¹⁹ For he has looked down from the height of his sanctuary. From heaven LORD beheld the earth, ²⁰ to hear the sighing of the prisoner, to loose those who are appointed to death, ²¹ that men may declare the name of LORD in Zion, and his praise in Jerusalem, ²² when the peoples are gathered together, and the kingdoms, to serve LORD. ²³ He weakened my strength in the way. He shortened my days. ²⁴ I said, O my God, take me not away in the midst of my days. Thy years are throughout all generations. ²⁵ Of old thou laid the foundation of the earth, and the heavens are the work of thy hands. ²⁶ They shall perish, but thou shall endure. Yea, all of them shall grow old like a garment. As a vesture thou shall change them, and they shall be changed, ²⁷ but thou are the same, and thy years shall have no end. ²⁸ The sons of thy servants shall continue, and their seed shall be established before thee.