Psalm 102

Revised Geneva Translation

102 O LORD, hear my prayer, and let my cry come to You.

² Do not hide Your face from me in the time of my trouble. Incline Your ears to me when I call. Hurry to hear me.

³ For my days are consumed like smoke; and my bones are burnt like a hearth.

⁴ My heart is stricken and withered, like grass, because I forgot to eat my bread.

⁵ Because of the voice of my groaning, my bones cling to my skin.

⁶ I am like a pelican of the wilderness. I am like an owl of the deserts.

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

⁸ My enemies revile me daily. Those who rage against me have sworn against me.

⁹ Surely, I have eaten ashes as bread and mingled my drink with weeping

¹⁰ because of Your indignation and Your wrath. For You have heaved me up and cast me down.

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

¹² But You, O LORD, remain forever, and Your remembrance from generation to generation.

¹³ You will arise and have mercy upon Zion. For the time to have mercy thereon, for the appointed time, has come.

¹⁴ For Your servants, delight in the stones thereof and have pity on the dust thereof.

¹⁵ Then the heathen shall fear the Name of the LORD, and all the kings of the Earth Your Glory,

¹⁶ when the LORD shall build up Zion and shall appear in His Glory

¹⁷ and shall turn to the prayer of the desolate and not despise their prayer.

¹⁸ This shall be written for the generation to come; and the people who shall be created shall praise the LORD.

¹⁹ For He has looked down from the height of His Sanctuary. Out of the heaven did the LORD behold the Earth,

²⁰ so that He might hear the mourning of the prisoner and deliver the children of death;

²¹ so that they may declare the Name of the LORD in Zion and His praise in Jerusalem

²² when the people shall be gathered together, and the kingdoms, to serve the LORD.

²³ He weakened my strength on the way and shortened my days.

²⁴ I said, “O my God, do not take me away in the midst of my days. Your years endure from generation to generation.

²⁵ “Before time, You have laid the foundation of the Earth; and the heavens are the work of Your hands.

²⁶ “They shall perish, but You shall endure. Indeed, they shall all wear out like a garment. You shall change them like clothing, and they shall be changed.

²⁷ But You are the same; and Your years shall not fail.

²⁸ The children of Your servants shall continue, and their seed shall be established in Your sight. A Psalm of David