Psalms 102 The prayer of the poor man, when he was anxious, and poured out his supplication before the Lord. (102:2) Hear, O Lord, my prayer: and let my cry come to thee.

DouayRheims⁽ⁱ⁾ ¹ The prayer of the poor man, when he was anxious, and poured out his supplication before the Lord. ^(102:2) Hear, O Lord, my prayer: and let my cry come to thee. ² ^(102:3) Turn not away thy face from me: in the day when I am in trouble, incline thy ear to me. In what day soever I shall call upon thee, hear me speedily. ³ ^(102:4) For my days are vanished like smoke, and my bones are grown dry like fuel for the fire. ⁴ ^(102:5) I am smitten as grass, and my heart is withered: because I forgot to eat my bread. ⁵ ^(102:6) Through the voice of my groaning, my bone hath cleaved to my flesh. ⁶ ^(102:7) I am become like to a pelican of the wilderness: I am like a night raven in the house. ⁷ ^(102:8) I have watched, and am become as a sparrow all alone on the housetop. ⁸ ^(102:9) All the day long my enemies reproached me: and they that praised me did swear against me. ⁹ ^(102:10) For I did eat ashes like bread, and mingled my drink with weeping. ¹⁰ ^(102:11) Because of thy anger and indignation: for having lifted me up thou hast thrown me down. ¹¹ ^(102:12) My days have declined like a shadow, and I am withered like grass. ¹² ^(102:13) But thou, O Lord, endurest for ever: and thy memorial to all generations. ¹³ ^(102:14) Thou shalt arise and have mercy on Sion: for it is time to have mercy on it, for the time is come. ¹⁴ ^(102:15) For the stones thereof have pleased thy servants: and they shall have pity on the earth thereof. ¹⁵ ^(102:16) All the Gentiles shall fear thy name, O Lord, and all the kings of the earth thy glory. ¹⁶ ^(102:17) For the Lord hath built up Sion: and he shall be seen in his glory. ¹⁷ ^(102:18) He hath had regard to the prayer of the humble: and he hath not despised their petition. ¹⁸ ^(102:19) Let these things be written unto another generation: and the people that shall be created shall praise the Lord: ¹⁹ ^(102:20) Because he hath looked forth from his high sanctuary: from heaven the Lord hath looked upon the earth. ²⁰ ^(102:21) That he might hear the groans of them that are in fetters: that he might release the children of the slain: ²¹ ^(102:22) That they may declare the name of the Lord in Sion: and his praise in Jerusalem; ²² ^(102:23) When the people assemble together, and kings, to serve the Lord. ²³ ^(102:24) He answered him in the way of his strength: Declare unto me the fewness of my days. ²⁴ ^(102:25) Call me not away in the midst of my days: thy years are unto generation and generation. ²⁵ ^(102:26) In the beginning, O Lord, thou foundedst the earth: and the heavens are the works of thy hands. ²⁶ ^(102:27) They shall perish but thou remainest: and all of them shall grow old like a garment: And as a vesture thou shalt change them, and they shall be changed. ²⁷ ^(102:28) But thou art always the selfsame, and thy years shall not fail. ²⁸ ^(102:29) The children of thy servants shall continue and their seed shall be directed for ever.