2.5 KiB
Psalm 102
- LORD, hear my prayer!
Listen to my plea!
- Don't turn away from me
in my time of distress.
Bend down to listen,
and answer me quickly when I call to you.
- For my days disappear like smoke,
and my bones burn like red-hot coals.
- My heart is sick, withered like grass,
and I have lost my appetite.
- Because of my groaning,
I am reduced to skin and bones.
- I am like an owl in the desert,
like a little owl in a far-off wilderness.
- I lie awake,
lonely as a solitary bird on the roof.
- My enemies taunt me day after day.
They mock and curse me.
- I eat ashes for food.
My tears run down into my drink
- because of your anger and wrath.
For you have picked me up and thrown me out.
- My life passes as swiftly as the evening shadows.
I am withering away like grass.
- But you, O LORD, will sit on your throne forever.
Your fame will endure to every generation.
- You will arise and have mercy on Jerusalem--
and now is the time to pity her,
now is the time you promised to help.
- For your people love every stone in her walls
and cherish even the dust in her streets.
- Then the nations will tremble before the LORD.
The kings of the earth will tremble before his glory.
- For the LORD will rebuild Jerusalem.
He will appear in his glory.
- He will listen to the prayers of the destitute.
He will not reject their pleas.
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Let this be recorded for future generations, so that a people not yet born will praise the LORD.
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Tell them the LORD looked down
from his heavenly sanctuary.
He looked down to earth from heaven
- to hear the groans of the prisoners,
to release those condemned to die.
- And so the LORD's fame will be celebrated in Zion,
his praises in Jerusalem,
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when multitudes gather together and kingdoms come to worship the LORD.
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He broke my strength in midlife,
cutting short my days.
- But I cried to him, "O my God, who lives forever,
don't take my life while I am so young!
- Long ago you laid the foundation of the earth
and made the heavens with your hands.
- They will perish, but you remain forever;
they will wear out like old clothing.
You will change them like a garment
and discard them.
- But you are always the same;
you will live forever.
- The children of your people
will live in security.
Their children's children
will thrive in your presence."