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Psalms 102

¹Lord, hear my prayer! Listen to my plea!

²Don’t turn away from me in my time of distress. Bend down to listen, and answer me quickly when I call to you.

³For my days disappear like smoke, and my bones burn like red-hot coals.

⁴My heart is sick, withered like grass, and I have lost my appetite.

⁵Because of my groaning, I am reduced to skin and bones.

⁶I am like an owl in the desert, like a little owl in a far-off wilderness.

⁷I lie awake, lonely as a solitary bird on the roof.

⁸My enemies taunt me day after day. They mock and curse me.

⁹I eat ashes for food. My tears run down into my drink

¹⁰because of your anger and wrath. For you have picked me up and thrown me out.

¹¹My life passes as swiftly as the evening shadows. I am withering away like grass.

¹²But you, O Lord, will sit on your throne forever. Your fame will endure to every generation.

¹³You will arise and have mercy on Jerusalem— and now is the time to pity her, now is the time you promised to help.

¹⁴For your people love every stone in her walls and cherish even the dust in her streets.

¹⁵Then the nations will tremble before the Lord. The kings of the earth will tremble before his glory.

¹⁶For the Lord will rebuild Jerusalem. He will appear in his glory.

¹⁷He will listen to the prayers of the destitute. He will not reject their pleas.

¹⁸Let this be recorded for future generations, so that a people not yet born will praise the Lord.

¹⁹Tell them the Lord looked down from his heavenly sanctuary. He looked down to earth from heaven

²⁰to hear the groans of the prisoners, to release those condemned to die.

²¹And so the Lord’s fame will be celebrated in Zion, his praises in Jerusalem,

²²when multitudes gather together and kingdoms come to worship the Lord.

²³He broke my strength in midlife, cutting short my days.

²⁴But I cried to him, “O my God, who lives forever, don’t take my life while I am so young!

²⁵Long ago you laid the foundation of the earth and made the heavens with your hands.

²⁶They will perish, but you remain forever; they will wear out like old clothing. You will change them like a garment and discard them.

²⁷But you are always the same; you will live forever.

²⁸The children of your people will live in security. Their children’s children will thrive in your presence.”

Psalms 102 (NLT)

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