Psalms 102

1 A PRAYER OF THE AFFLICTED WHEN HE IS FEEBLE, AND POURS OUT HIS COMPLAINT BEFORE YHWH. O YHWH, hear my prayer, indeed, my cry comes to You.

2 Do not hide Your face from me, In a day of my adversity, Incline Your ear to me, In the day I call, hurry, answer me.

3 For my days have been consumed in smoke, And my bones have burned as a firebrand.

4 Struck as the herb, and withered, is my heart, For I have forgotten to eat my bread.

5 From the voice of my sighing My bone has cleaved to my flesh.

6 I have been like to a pelican of the wilderness, I have been as an owl of the dry places.

7 I have watched, and I am As a bird alone on the roof.

8 All the day my enemies reproached me, Those mad at me have sworn against me.

9 Because I have eaten ashes as bread, And have mingled my drink with weeping,

10 From Your indignation and Your wrath, For You have lifted me up, And cast me down.

11 My days [are] stretched out as a shadow, And I am withered as the herb.

12 And You, O YHWH, abide for all time, And Your memorial from generation to generation.

13 You rise—You pity Zion, For the time to favor her, For the appointed time has come.

14 For Your servants have been pleased with her stones, And they favor her dust.

15 And nations fear the Name of YHWH, And all kings of the earth Your glory,

16 For YHWH has built Zion, He has been seen in His glory,

17 He turned to the prayer of the destitute, And He has not despised their prayer.

18 This is written for a later generation, And the people created praise YAH.

19 For He has looked From the high place of His sanctuary. YHWH looked attentively from the heavens to earth,

20 To hear the groan of the prisoner, To loose sons of death,

21 To declare in Zion the Name of YHWH, And His praise in Jerusalem,

22 In the peoples being gathered together, And the kingdoms—to serve YHWH.

23 He has humbled my power in the way, He has shortened my days.

24 I say, “My God, do not take me up in the midst of my days,” Your years [are] through all generations.

25 You founded the earth before time, And the heavens [are] the work of Your hands.

26 They perish, and You remain, And all of them become old as a garment, You change them as clothing, And they are changed.

27 And You [are] the same, and Your years are not finished.

28 The sons of Your servants continue, And their seed is established before You!