102:1 Listen to my prayer, O LORD, and hear my cry for help! |
102:2 When I am in trouble, don't turn away from me! Listen to me, and answer me quickly when I call! |
102:3 My life is disappearing like smoke; my body is burning like fire. |
102:4 I am beaten down like dry grass; I have lost my desire for food. |
102:5 I groan aloud; I am nothing but skin and bones. |
102:6 I am like a wild bird in the desert, like an owl in abandoned ruins. |
102:7 I lie awake; I am like a lonely bird on a housetop. |
102:8 All day long my enemies insult me; those who mock me use my name in cursing. |
102:9 Because of your anger and fury, ashes are my food, and my tears are mixed with my drink. You picked me up and threw me away. |
102:10 (SEE 102:9) |
102:11 My life is like the evening shadows; I am like dry grass. |
102:12 But you, O LORD, are king forever; all generations will remember you. |
102:13 You will rise and take pity on Zion; the time has come to have mercy on her; this is the right time. |
102:14 Your servants love her, even though she is destroyed; they have pity on her, even though she is in ruins. |
102:15 The nations will fear the LORD; all the kings of the earth will fear his power. |
102:16 When the LORD rebuilds Zion, he will reveal his greatness. |
102:17 He will hear his forsaken people and listen to their prayer. |
102:18 Write down for the coming generation what the LORD has done, so that people not yet born will praise him. |
102:19 The LORD looked down from his holy place on high, he looked down from heaven to earth. |
102:20 He heard the groans of prisoners and set free those who were condemned to die. |
102:21 And so his name will be proclaimed in Zion, and he will be praised in Jerusalem |
102:22 when nations and kingdoms come together and worship the LORD. |
102:23 The LORD has made me weak while I am still young; he has shortened my life. |
102:24 O God, do not take me away now before I grow old. O LORD, you live forever; |
102:25 long ago you created the earth, and with your own hands you made the heavens. |
102:26 They will disappear, but you will remain; they will all wear out like clothes. You will discard them like clothes, and they will vanish. |
102:27 But you are always the same, and your life never ends. |
102:28 Our children will live in safety, and under your protection their descendants will be secure. |