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cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../psalms/101.htm" title="Psalm 101">◄</a> Psalm 102 <a href="../psalms/103.htm" title="Psalm 103">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">New American Bible Revised Edition</td><td width="1%" valign="top"></td></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><section id="ch23102" class="chapter"> <h1 id="cn23102" class="cn"><a class="xlef" hlef="#rbk23"><span class="ac">Psalm</span> 102</a><a id="rfn23102000-1" class="fnref" href="footnotes.htm#fn23102000-1">*</a></h1> <h1 class="cs">Prayer in Time of Distress</h1> <p class="pf-center"><span id="v23102001" class="ver">1</span>The prayer of one afflicted and wasting away whose anguish is poured out before the <span class="tetr">Lord</span>.</p> <p class="chsect">I</p> <div class="senseline"> <p class="slf"><span id="v23102002" class="ver">2</span><span class="tetr">Lord</span>, hear my prayer;</p> <p class="sl1">let my cry come to you.</p> <p class="sl"><span id="v23102003" class="ver">3</span>Do not hide your face from me</p> <p class="sl1">in the day of my distress.<a id="ren23102003-a" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en23102003-a">a</a></p> <p class="sl">Turn your ear to me;</p> <p class="sl1">when I call, answer me quickly.</p> <p class="sl"><span id="v23102004" class="ver">4</span>For my days vanish like smoke;<a id="ren23102004-b" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en23102004-b">b</a></p> <p class="sl1">my bones burn away as in a furnace.</p> <p class="sl"><span id="v23102005" class="ver">5</span>My heart is withered, dried up like grass,</p> <p class="sl1">too wasted to eat my food.</p> <p class="sl"><span id="v23102006" class="ver">6</span>From my loud groaning</p> <p class="sl1">I become just skin and bones.</p> <p class="sl"><span id="v23102007" class="ver">7</span>I am like a desert owl,</p> <p class="sl1">like an owl among the ruins.</p> <p class="sl"><span id="v23102008" class="ver">8</span>I lie awake and moan,</p> <p class="sl1">like a lone sparrow on the roof.</p> <p class="sl"><span id="v23102009" class="ver">9</span>All day long my enemies taunt me;</p> <p class="sl1">in their rage, they make my name a curse.<a id="rfn23102009-1" class="fnref" href="footnotes.htm#fn23102009-1">*</a></p> <p class="sl"><span id="v23102010" class="ver">10</span>I eat ashes like bread,</p> <p class="sl1">mingle my drink with tears.<a id="ren23102010-c" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en23102010-c">c</a></p> <p class="sl"><span id="v23102011" class="ver">11</span>Because of your furious wrath,</p> <p class="sl1">you lifted me up just to cast me down.</p> <p class="sl"><span id="v23102012" class="ver">12</span><a id="ren23102012-d" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en23102012-d">d</a>My days are like a lengthening shadow;<a id="ren23102012-e" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en23102012-e">e</a></p> <p class="sl1">I wither like the grass.</p> </div> <p class="chsect">II</p> <div class="senseline"> <p class="slf"><span id="v23102013" class="ver">13</span>But you, <span class="tetr">Lord</span>, are enthroned forever;</p> <p class="sl1">your renown is for all generations.<a id="ren23102013-f" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en23102013-f">f</a></p> <p class="sl"><span id="v23102014" class="ver">14</span>You will again show mercy to Zion;</p> <p class="sl1">now is the time for pity;</p> <p class="sl1">the appointed time has come.</p> <p class="sl"><span id="v23102015" class="ver">15</span>Its stones are dear to your servants;</p> <p class="sl1">its dust moves them to pity.</p> <p class="sl"><span id="v23102016" class="ver">16</span>The nations shall fear your name, <span class="tetr">Lord</span>,</p> <p class="sl1">all the kings of the earth, your glory,<a id="ren23102016-g" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en23102016-g">g</a></p> <p class="sl"><span id="v23102017" class="ver">17</span>Once the <span class="tetr">Lord</span> has rebuilt Zion</p> <p class="sl1">and appeared in glory,</p> <p class="sl"><span id="v23102018" class="ver">18</span>Heeding the plea of the lowly,</p> <p class="sl1">not scorning their prayer.</p> <p class="sl"><span id="v23102019" class="ver">19</span>Let this be written for the next generation,</p> <p class="sl1">for a people not yet born,</p> <p class="sl1">that they may praise the <span class="tetr">Lord</span>:<a id="ren23102019-h" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en23102019-h">h</a></p> <p class="sl"><span id="v23102020" class="ver">20</span><a id="rfn23102020-1" class="fnref" href="footnotes.htm#fn23102020-1">*</a>“The <span class="tetr">Lord</span> looked down from the holy heights,</p> <p class="sl1">viewed the earth from heaven,<a id="ren23102020-i" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en23102020-i">i</a></p> <p class="sl"><span id="v23102021" class="ver">21</span>To attend to the groaning of the prisoners,</p> <p class="sl1">to release those doomed to die.”<a id="ren23102021-j" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en23102021-j">j</a></p> <p class="sl"><span id="v23102022" class="ver">22</span>Then the <span class="tetr">Lord</span>’s name will be declared on Zion,</p> <p class="sl1">his praise in Jerusalem,</p> <p class="sl"><span id="v23102023" class="ver">23</span>When peoples and kingdoms gather</p> <p class="sl1">to serve the <span class="tetr">Lord</span>.<a id="ren23102023-k" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en23102023-k">k</a></p> </div> <p class="chsect">III</p> <div class="senseline"> <p class="slf"><span id="v23102024" class="ver">24</span>He has shattered my strength in mid-course,</p> <p class="sl1">has cut short my days.</p> <p class="sl"><span id="v23102025" class="ver">25</span>I plead, O my God,</p> <p class="sl1">do not take me in the midst of my days.<a id="rfn23102025-1" class="fnref" href="footnotes.htm#fn23102025-1">*</a><a id="ren23102025-l" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en23102025-l">l</a></p> <p class="sl1">Your years last through all generations.</p> <p class="sl"><span id="v23102026" class="ver">26</span>Of old you laid the earth’s foundations;<a id="ren23102026-m" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en23102026-m">m</a></p> <p class="sl1">the heavens are the work of your hands.</p> <p class="sl"><span id="v23102027" class="ver">27</span>They perish, but you remain;</p> <p class="sl1">they all wear out like a garment;</p> <p class="sl">Like clothing you change them and they are changed,</p> <p class="sl1"><span id="v23102028" class="ver">28</span>but you are the same, your years have no end.</p> <p class="sl"><span id="v23102029" class="ver">29</span>May the children of your servants live on;</p> <p class="sl1">may their descendants live in your presence.<a id="ren23102029-n" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en23102029-n">n</a></p> </div> </section> <br 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