Psalm 102:1-28 AMPC

[1] Hear my prayer, O Lord, and let my cry come to You. [2] Hide not Your face from me in the day when I am in distress! Incline Your ear to me; in the day when I call, answer me speedily. [3] For my days consume away like smoke, and my bones burn like a firebrand or like a hearth. [4] My heart is smitten like grass and withered, so that [in absorption] I forget to eat my food. [5] By reason of my loud groaning [from suffering and trouble] my flesh cleaves to my bones. [6] I am like a melancholy pelican or vulture of the wilderness; I am like a [desolate] owl of the waste places. [7] I am sleepless and lie awake [mourning], like a bereaved sparrow alone on the housetop. [8] My adversaries taunt and reproach me all the day; and they who are angry with me use my name as a curse. [9] For I have eaten the ashes [in which I sat] as if they were bread and have mingled my drink with weeping [10] Because of Your indignation and Your wrath, for You have taken me up and cast me away. [11] My days are like an evening shadow that stretches out and declines [with the sun]; and I am withered like grass. [12] But You, O Lord, are enthroned forever; and the fame of Your name endures to all generations. [13] You will arise and have mercy and loving-kindness for Zion, for it is time to have pity and compassion for her; yes, the set time has come [the moment designated]. [14] For Your servants take [melancholy] pleasure in the stones [of her ruins] and show pity for her dust. [15] So the nations shall fear and worshipfully revere the name of the Lord, and all the kings of the earth Your glory. [16] When the Lord builds up Zion, He will appear in His glory; [17] He will regard the plea of the destitute and will not despise their prayer. [18] Let this be recorded for the generation yet unborn, that a people yet to be created shall praise the Lord. [19] For He looked down from the height of His sanctuary, from heaven did the Lord behold the earth, [20] To hear the sighing and groaning of the prisoner, to loose those who are appointed to death, [21] So that men may declare the name of the Lord in Zion and His praise in Jerusalem [22] When peoples are gathered together, and the kingdoms, to worship and serve the Lord. [23] He has afflicted and weakened my strength, humbling and bringing me low [with sorrow] in the way; He has shortened my days [aging me prematurely]. [24] I said, O my God, take me not away in the midst of my days, You Whose years continue throughout all generations. [25] At the beginning You existed and laid the foundations of the earth; the heavens are the work of Your hands. [26] They shall perish, but You shall remain and endure; yes, all of them shall wear out and become old like a garment. Like clothing You shall change them, and they shall be changed and pass away. [27] But You remain the same, and Your years shall have no end. [28] The children of Your servants shall dwell safely and continue, and their descendants shall be established before You.