Psalms 102
1 Yahweh, listen to what I am praying; hear me while I cry out to you!
A prayer of the afflicted, when he shall be in distresse, and pour forth his meditation before the Lord. O Lord, heare my prayer, and let my crye come vnto thee.
2 Do not (turn away/hide yourself) from me when I (have troubles/am distressed)! Listen to me, and answer me quickly now, when I am calling out to you!
Hide not thy face from me in the time of my trouble: incline thine eares vnto me: when I call, make haste to heare me.
3 My life is ending, like smoke that disappears [SIM]; I have [a high fever which] burns my body like a fire burns [SIM].
For my dayes are consumed like smoke, and my bones are burnt like an herthe.
4 [I feel like] I am drying up like grass [SIM] that has been beaten/trampled down, and I no longer have a desire to eat food.
Mine heart is smitten and withereth like grasse, because I forgate to eate my bread.
5 I groan loudly, and my bones can be seen under my skin [because I have become very thin].
For the voyce of my groning my bones doe cleaue to my skinne.
6 I am like a [lonely and despised] vulture in the desert, like an owl by itself in the abandoned ruins [of a building/city].
I am like a pelicane of the wildernesse: I am like an owle of the deserts.
7 I lie awake [at night]; [because there is no one to comfort me], I am like a lonely bird [sitting] on a housetop [SIM].
I watch and am as a sparrowe alone vpon the house top.
8 All during the day my enemies insult me; those who make fun of me mention my name [and say, “May you be like him”] when they curse people.
Mine enemies reuile me dayly, and they that rage against me, haue sworne against me.
9 Because you are very angry [DOU] with me, now [I sit in] ashes [while I am suffering greatly]; and those ashes [fall on] the bread/food that I eat, and what I drink has my tears mixed with it. [It is as though] you have picked me up and thrown me away!
Surely I haue eaten asshes as bread, and mingled my drinke with weeping,
Because of thine indignation and thy wrath: for thou hast heaued me vp, and cast me downe.
11 My time to remain alive is like an evening shadow [that will soon be gone] [SIM]. I am withering like grass withers [in the hot sun].
My dayes are like a shadowe that fadeth, and I am withered like grasse.
12 But Yahweh, you are our king who rules [MTY] forever; people who are not yet born will remember you.
But thou, O Lord, doest remaine for euer, and thy remembrance from generation to generation.
13 You will arise and be merciful to [the people of] [MTY] Jerusalem; it is now time for you to do that; this is the time for you to be kind to them.
Thou wilt arise and haue mercy vpon Zion: for the time to haue mercie thereon, for the appointed time is come.
14 Even though (the city has been destroyed/our enemies have destroyed our city), we who serve you still love the stones that [were formerly] in the city walls; because now there is rubble everywhere, we, your people, are very sad when we see it.
For thy seruants delite in the stones thereof, and haue pitie on the dust thereof.
15 Yahweh, [some day the people of other] nations will revere you [MTY]; all the kings on earth will see that you are very glorious/great.
Then the heathen shall feare the Name of the Lord, and all the Kings of the earth thy glory,
16 You will rebuild Jerusalem, and you will appear there with your glory/brightness.
When the Lord shall build vp Zion, and shall appeare in his glory,
17 You will listen to the prayers of your people who are homeless, and you will (not ignore them/do what they request) [LIT] when they plead with you to help them.
And shall turne vnto the prayer of the desolate, and not despise their prayer.
18 Yahweh, [I want to] write these words in order that people in future years [will know what] you have done, in order that people who are not born yet will praise you.
This shall be written for the generation to come: and the people, which shalbe created, shall prayse the Lord.
19 They will know that you looked down from your holy/sacred place in heaven [DOU] and saw [what was happening on] the earth.
For he hath looked downe from the height of his Sanctuarie: out of the heauen did the Lord beholde the earth,
20 They will know that you hear prisoners groaning and that you will set free those who have been told, “You will be executed.”
That he might heare the mourning of the prisoner, and deliuer the children of death:
21 As a result, people in Jerusalem will praise you [DOU] for what you [have done]
That they may declare the Name of the Lord in Zion, and his prayse in Ierusalem,
22 when many people [from other people-groups] and [those who are citizens of other] kingdoms gather to worship you.
When the people shalbe gathered together, and the kingdomes to serue the Lord.
23 [But now] you have caused me to become weak while I am still young; [I think that] I will (not live much longer/ very long/soon die).
He abated my strength in the way, and shortened my dayes.
24 I say to you, “My God, do not cause me to die now, before I become old! You live forever!
And I sayd, O my God, take me not away in the middes of my dayes: thy yeeres endure from generation to generation.
25 You created the world long ago, and you made (the heavens/everything in the sky) with your own hands.
Thou hast aforetime layde the foundation of the earth, and the heauens are the worke of thine hands.
26 The earth and the heavens/sky will disappear, but you will remain. They will wear out like clothes wear out. You will get rid of them like [people get rid of] old clothes, and they will no longer exist,
They shall perish, but thou shalt endure: euen they all shall waxe olde as doeth a garment: as a vesture shalt thou change them, and they shall be changed.
27 but you are [not like the things that you created], [because you are] always the same; you never die.
But thou art the same, and thy yeeres shall not fayle.
28 [Some day] our children will live safely [in Jerusalem], and their descendants will be protected in your presence.”
The children of thy seruants shall continue, and their seede shall stand fast in thy sight.
