Psalms 102 {A Prayer{ {For the humbled one when he is drooping and is pouring out his concern before Yahweh.{ O Yahweh, do hear my prayer, And let my imploring come to You."

CLV⁽ⁱ⁾ ¹ {A Prayer{ {For the humbled one when he is drooping and is pouring out his concern before Yahweh.{ O Yahweh, do hear my prayer, And let my imploring come to You." ² O do not conceal Your face from me in the day of my distress! Stretch out Your ear to me; Answer me hastily, in the day I shall call." ³ For my days vanish like smoke, And my bones burn hot like glowing embers." ⁴ My heart is smitten and is drying up like herbage, For I forget to eat my bread." ⁵ Because of the sound of my sighing My bones cling to my flesh. ⁶ I am like a pelican of the marshy wilderness; I have become like a little owl of the deserted places. ⁷ I am watchful, And I am becoming like a solitary bird on a housetop." ⁸ The entire day my enemies reproach me; Those raving against me swear a curse by me. ⁹ For I eat ashes like bread, And I blend my drink with lamentation, ¹⁰ In view of Your indignation and Your wrath, For You have lifted me up and are flinging me down." ¹¹ My days are like the declining shadow, And I, I am drying up like herbage." ¹² Yet You, O Yahweh, You are dwelling for the eon, And Your Name for generation after generation." ¹³ You Yourself shall rise; You shall have compassion on Zion, For it is the era to be gracious to her, Since the appointed time has come." ¹⁴ For Your servants hold her stones dear, And they show favor to her soil." ¹⁵ The nations shall fear the Name of Yahweh, And all the kings of the earth Your glory." ¹⁶ For Yahweh will build up Zion; He will appear in His glory. ¹⁷ He will turn toward the prayer of the forlorn, And He will not despise their prayer." ¹⁸ Let this be written for a later generation, When a people yet being created shall praise Yah." ¹⁹ For He will gaze from His sanctuary on high; Yahweh from the heavens to the earth will look down, ²⁰ To hear the groaning of the prisoner, To unloose the sons of death, ²¹ So that the Name of Yahweh may be recounted in Zion And His praise in Jerusalem, ²² When the peoples are convened together And the kingdoms come to serve Yahweh. ²³ On the way He has humbled my vigor; He has shortened my days. ²⁴ I am saying, O my El, do not take me away at the half of my days! Your years continue through generation after generations." ²⁵ Beforetime You founded the earth, And the heavens are the work of Your hands." ²⁶ They shall perish, yet You shall stand. All of them shall decay like a cloak; You shall change them like clothing, and they shall pass by." ²⁷ Yet You remain the same, And Your years shall not come to end." ²⁸ The sons of Your servants, they shall tabernacle in serenity, And their seed shall be established before You."