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102 : 1 Hear my prayer, O LORD; let my cry for help come to you.
102 : 2 Do not hide your face from me when I am in distress. Turn your ear to me; when I call, answer me quickly.
102 : 3 For my days vanish like smoke; my bones burn like glowing embers.
102 : 4 My heart is blighted and withered like grass; I forget to eat my food.
102 : 5 Because of my loud groaning I am reduced to skin and bones.
102 : 6 I am like a desert owl, like an owl among the ruins.
102 : 7 I lie awake; I have become like a bird alone on a roof.
102 : 8 All day long my enemies taunt me; those who rail against me use my name as a curse.
102 : 9 For I eat ashes as my food and mingle my drink with tears
102 : 10 because of your great wrath, for you have taken me up and thrown me aside.
102 : 11 My days are like the evening shadow; I wither away like grass.
102 : 12 But you, O LORD, sit enthroned forever; your renown endures through all generations.
102 : 13 You will arise and have compassion on Zion, for it is time to show favor to her; the appointed time has come.
102 : 14 For her stones are dear to your servants; her very dust moves them to pity.
102 : 15 The nations will fear the name of the LORD, all the kings of the earth will revere your glory.
102 : 16 For the LORD will rebuild Zion and appear in his glory.
102 : 17 He will respond to the prayer of the destitute; he will not despise their plea.
102 : 18 Let this be written for a future generation, that a people not yet created may praise the LORD :
102 : 19 The LORD looked down from his sanctuary on high, from heaven he viewed the earth,
102 : 20 to hear the groans of the prisoners and release those condemned to death."
102 : 21 So the name of the LORD will be declared in Zion and his praise in Jerusalem
102 : 22 when the peoples and the kingdoms assemble to worship the LORD.
102 : 23 In the course of my life he broke my strength; he cut short my days.
102 : 24 So I said: "Do not take me away, O my God, in the midst of my days; your years go on through all generations.
102 : 25 In the beginning you laid the foundations of the earth, and the heavens are the work of your hands.
102 : 26 They will perish, but you remain; they will all wear out like a garment. Like clothing you will change them and they will be discarded.
102 : 27 But you remain the same, and your years will never end.
102 : 28 The children of your servants will live in your presence; their descendants will be established before you."