| 102 | Psalms | Reference | |
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| [A prayer of one afflicted, when he is faint and pours out his complaint before the LORD. ] | Penitential Psalm - Help Me O Lord!. Psalm 102(v101) | ||
| Hear my prayer, O LORD; let my cry come to thee! | |||
| Do not hide thy face from me in the day of my distress! Incline thy ear to me; answer me speedily in the day when I call! | |||
| For my days pass away like smoke, and my bones burn like a furnace. | |||
| My heart is smitten like grass, and withered; I forget to eat my bread. | |||
| Because of my loud groaning my bones cleave to my flesh. | |||
| I am like a vulture of the wilderness, like an owl of the waste places; | |||
| I lie awake, I am like a lonely bird on the housetop. | |||
| All the day my enemies taunt me, those who deride me use my name for a curse. | |||
| For I eat ashes like bread, and mingle tears with my drink, | |||
| because of thy indignation and anger; for thou hast taken me up and thrown me away. | |||
| My days are like an evening shadow; I wither away like grass. | |||
| But thou, O LORD, art enthroned for ever; thy name endures to all generations. | |||
| Thou wilt arise and have pity on Zion; it is the time to favor her; the appointed time has come. | |||
| For thy servants hold her stones dear, and have pity on her dust. | |||
| The nations will fear the name of the LORD, and all the kings of the earth thy glory. | |||
| For the LORD will build up Zion, he will appear in his glory; | |||
| he will regard the prayer of the destitute, and will not despise their supplication. | |||
| Let this be recorded for a generation to come, so that a people yet unborn may praise the LORD: | |||
| that he looked down from his holy height, from heaven the LORD looked at the earth, | |||
| to hear the groans of the prisoners, to set free those who were doomed to die; | |||
| that men may declare in Zion the name of the LORD, and in Jerusalem his praise, | |||
| when peoples gather together, and kingdoms, to worship the LORD. | |||
| He has broken my strength in mid-course; he has shortened my days. | |||
| "O my God," I say, "take me not hence in the midst of my days, thou whose years endure throughout all generations!" | |||
| Of old thou didst lay the foundation of the earth, and the heavens are the work of thy hands. | |||
| They will perish, but thou dost endure; they will all wear out like a garment. Thou changest them like raiment, and they pass away; | |||
| but thou art the same, and thy years have no end. | |||
| The children of thy servants shall dwell secure; their posterity shall be established before thee. | |||
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