Psalms 102

¹Hear my prayer, O Jehovah,

²Hide not thy face from me in the day of my distress:

³For my days consume away like smoke,

⁴My heart is smitten like grass, and withered;

⁵By reason of the voice of my groaning

⁶I am like a pelican of the wilderness;

⁷I watch, and am become like a sparrow

⁸Mine enemies reproach me all the day;

⁹For I have eaten ashes like bread,

¹⁰Because of thine indignation and thy wrath:

¹¹My days are like a shadow that declineth;

¹²But thou, O Jehovah, wilt abide for ever;

¹³Thou wilt arise, and have mercy upon Zion;

¹⁴For thy servants take pleasure in her stones,

¹⁵So the nations shall fear the name of Jehovah,

¹⁶For Jehovah hath built up Zion;

¹⁷He hath regarded the prayer of the destitute,

¹⁸This shall be written for the generation to come;

¹⁹For he hath looked down from the height of his sanctuary;

²⁰To hear the sighing of the prisoner;

²¹That men may declare the name of Jehovah in Zion,

²²When the peoples are gathered together,

²³He weakened my strength in the way;

²⁴I said, O my God, take me not away in the midst of my days:

²⁵Of old didst thou lay the foundation of the earth;

²⁶They shall perish, but thou shalt endure;

²⁷But thou art the same,

²⁸The children of thy servants shall continue,