Psalm 102

From Textus Receptus

• 1 Hear my prayer, O LORD, and let my cry come unto thee.

• 2 Hide not thy face from me in the day when I am in trouble; incline thine ear unto me: in the day when I call answer me speedily.

• 3 For my days are consumed like smoke, and my bones are burned as an hearth.

• 4 My heart is smitten, and withered like grass; so that I forget to eat my bread.

• 5 By reason of the voice of my groaning my bones cleave to my skin.

• 6 I am like a pelican of the wilderness: I am like an owl of the desert.

• 7 I watch, and am as a sparrow alone upon the house top.

• 8 Mine enemies reproach me all the day; and they that are mad against me are sworn against 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 hast lifted me up, and cast me down.

• 11 My days are like a shadow that declineth; and I am withered like grass.

• 12 But thou, O LORD, shall endure for ever; and thy remembrance unto all generations.

• 13 Thou shalt arise, and have mercy upon Zion: for the time to favour her, yea, the set time, is come.

• 14 For thy servants take pleasure in her stones, and favour the dust thereof.

• 15 So the heathen shall fear the name of the LORD, and all the kings of the earth thy glory.

• 16 When the LORD shall build up Zion, he shall appear in his glory.

• 17 He will regard the prayer of the destitute, and not despise their prayer.

• 18 This shall be written for the generation to come: and the people which shall be created shall praise the LORD.

• 19 For he hath looked down from the height of his sanctuary; from heaven did the LORD behold the earth;

• 20 To hear the groaning of the prisoner; to loose those that are appointed to death;

• 21 To declare the name of the LORD in Zion, and his praise in Jerusalem;

• 22 When the people are gathered together, and the kingdoms, to serve the 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 hast thou laid the foundation of the earth: and the heavens are the work of thy hands.

• 26 They shall perish, but thou shalt endure: yea, all of them shall wax old like a garment; as a vesture shalt thou change them, and they shall be changed:

• 27 But thou art the same, and thy years shall have no end.

• 28 The children of thy servants shall continue, and their seed shall be established before thee.