The Book of Psalms 102

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1 Hear my prayer O LORD and let my cry come unto thee ⚑

2 Hide not thy face from me in the day when I am in trouble incline thine ear unto me in the day when I call answer me speedily ⚑

3 For my days are consumed like smoke and my bones are burned as an hearth ⚑

4 My heart is smitten and withered like grass so that I forget to eat my bread ⚑

5 By reason of the voice of my groaning my bones cleave to my skin ⚑

6 I am like a pelican of the wilderness I am like an owl of the desert ⚑

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

8 Mine enemies reproach me all the day and they that are mad against me are sworn against me ⚑

9 For I have eaten ashes like bread and mingled my drink with weeping ⚑

10 Because of thine indignation and thy wrath for thou hast lifted me up and cast me down ⚑

11 My days are like a shadow that declineth and I am withered like grass ⚑

12 But thou O LORD shalt endure for ever and thy remembrance unto all generations ⚑

13 Thou shalt arise and have mercy upon Zion for the time to favour her yea the set time is come ⚑

14 For thy servants take pleasure in her stones and favour the dust thereof ⚑

15 So the heathen shall fear the name of the LORD and all the kings of the earth thy glory ⚑

16 When the LORD shall build up Zion he shall appear in his glory ⚑

17 He will regard the prayer of the destitute and not despise their prayer ⚑

18 This shall be written for the generation to come and the people which shall be created shall praise the LORD ⚑

19 For he hath looked down from the height of his sanctuary from heaven did the LORD behold the earth ⚑

20 To hear the groaning of the prisoner to loose those that are appointed to death ⚑

21 To declare the name of the LORD in Zion and his praise in Jerusalem ⚑

22 When the people are gathered together and the kingdoms to serve the LORD ⚑

23 He weakened my strength in the way he shortened my days ⚑

24 I said O my God take me not away in the midst of my days thy years are throughout all generations ⚑

25 Of old hast thou laid the foundation of the earth and the heavens are the work of thy hands ⚑

26 They shall perish but thou shalt endure yea all of them shall wax old like a garment as a vesture shalt thou change them and they shall be changed ⚑

27 But thou art the same and thy years shall have no end ⚑

28 The children of thy servants shall continue and their seed shall be established before thee ⚑

King James Version (1769) with Apocrypha · Crosswire Bible Society / eBible.org (standard text of 1769) · Public Domain

Cross-references: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge · public domain