Psalm 102:1-28 NLT

[1] LORD, hear my prayer! Listen to my plea! [2] Don't turn away from me in my time of distress. Bend down to listen, and answer me quickly when I call to you. [3] For my days disappear like smoke, and my bones burn like red-hot coals. [4] My heart is sick, withered like grass, and I have lost my appetite. [5] Because of my groaning, I am reduced to skin and bones. [6] I am like an owl in the desert, like a little owl in a far-off wilderness. [7] I lie awake, lonely as a solitary bird on the roof. [8] My enemies taunt me day after day. They mock and curse me. [9] I eat ashes for food. My tears run down into my drink [10] because of your anger and wrath. For you have picked me up and thrown me out. [11] My life passes as swiftly as the evening shadows. I am withering away like grass. [12] But you, O LORD, will sit on your throne forever. Your fame will endure to every generation. [13] You will arise and have mercy on Jerusalem- and now is the time to pity her, now is the time you promised to help. [14] For your people love every stone in her walls and cherish even the dust in her streets. [15] Then the nations will tremble before the LORD. The kings of the earth will tremble before his glory. [16] For the LORD will rebuild Jerusalem. He will appear in his glory. [17] He will listen to the prayers of the destitute. He will not reject their pleas. [18] Let this be recorded for future generations, so that a people not yet born will praise the LORD. [19] Tell them the LORD looked down from his heavenly sanctuary. He looked down to earth from heaven [20] to hear the groans of the prisoners, to release those condemned to die. [21] And so the LORD's fame will be celebrated in Zion, his praises in Jerusalem, [22] when multitudes gather together and kingdoms come to worship the LORD. [23] He broke my strength in midlife, cutting short my days. [24] But I cried to him, "O my God, who lives forever, don't take my life while I am so young! [25] Long ago you laid the foundation of the earth and made the heavens with your hands. [26] They will perish, but you remain forever; they will wear out like old clothing. You will change them like a garment and discard them. [27] But you are always the same; you will live forever. [28] The children of your people will live in security. Their children's children will thrive in your presence."