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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1"><title>Psalm 102 Smith's Literal Translation</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/psalms/102.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="../topmenuchap/psalms/102-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="http://biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">SLT</a> > Psalm 102</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="../menu.htm" width="100%" height="48" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" 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">Smith's Literal Translation</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/parallel/psalms/102-1.htm" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Verses"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><A name="2"></a><p class="hdg">The Prayer of the Afflicted<p><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/102-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>Prayer for the poor when he shall languish, and before Jehovah shall pour out his complaint O Jehovah, hear my prayer, and my cry shall come to thee.<p> <A name="3"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/102-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>Thou wilt not hide thy face from me in the day of straits to me; incline thine ear to me: in the day I shall call, speedily answer me.<p> <A name="4"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/102-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>For my days were finished in smoke, and my bones burnt as fuel.<p> <A name="5"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/102-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>My heart was struck and dried up as grass, that I forget eating my bread.<p> <A name="6"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/102-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>From the voice of my groaning my bone did cleave to my flesh.<p> <A name="7"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/102-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>I was like to the pelican of the desert: I was as the owl of the dry places.<p> <A name="8"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/102-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>I watched and I shall be as the sparrow being alone upon the roof.<p> <A name="9"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/102-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>All the day mine enemies reproached me, they praising me aware against me.<p> <A name="10"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/102-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>For I ate ashes as bread, and I mingled my drink with weeping.<p> <A name="11"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/102-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>From the face of thine anger and thy wrath: for thou didst lift me up and thou wilt cast me down.<p> <A name="12"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/102-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>My days declining as a shadow, and I shall be dried up as grass.<p> <A name="13"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/102-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>And thou, O Jehovah, wilt remain forever; and thy remembrance to generation And generation.<p> <A name="14"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/102-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>Thou wilt arise, thou wilt compassionate Zion: for the time to compassionate her for the appointment came.<p> <A name="15"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/102-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>For thy servants delighted in her stones, and they will compassionate her dust.<p> <A name="16"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/102-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>And the nations shall fear the name of Jehovah: and all the kings of the earth thy glory.<p> <A name="17"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/102-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>For Jehovah built Zion, he was seen in his glory.<p> <A name="18"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/102-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>He looked upon the prayer of the helpless, and he despised not their prayer.<p> <A name="19"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/102-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>This shall be written for a later generation: and a people created shall praise Jah.<p> <A name="20"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/102-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>For be looked forth from the height of his holy place; from the heavens Jehovah looked upon the earth;<p> <A name="21"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/102-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>To hear the groaning of the bound; to loose the sons of death.<p> <A name="22"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/102-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>To recount in Zion the name of Jehovah, and his praise in Jerusalem.<p> <A name="23"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/102-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>In the gathering of the peoples together, and the kingdoms to serve Jehovah.<p> <A name="24"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/102-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>He answered in the way of his strength: he shortened my days.<p> <A name="25"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/102-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>Saying, O my God, thou wilt not take me away in the half of my days: thy years in generations of generations.<p> <A name="26"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/102-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>Before time thou didst found the earth, and the heavens the work of thy hands.<p> <A name="27"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/102-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>They shall perish and thou shalt stand. And all they shall fall away as a garment; as clothing thou shalt change them, and they shall be changed.<p> <A name="28"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/102-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>And thou the same, and thy years shall not finish.<p> <A name=""></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/102-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>The sons of thy servants shall abide, and their seed shall be prepared before thee.<p><br /></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">The Holy Bible Containing the Old and New Testaments; Translated Literally From The Original Tongues by Julia E. 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