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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">New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition</td><td width="1%" valign="top"></td></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><div class="text-html"> <h3><span id="en" class="text">Psalm 102</span></h3><h3><span class="text">Prayer to the Eternal King for Help</span></h3><h4 class="psalm-title"><span class="text">A prayer of one afflicted, when faint and pleading before the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span>.</span></h4><div class="poetry"><p class="line"><span class="text"><span class="versenum">1</span>Hear my prayer, O <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span>;</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">let my cry come to you.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">2</span>Do not hide your face from me</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">in the day of my distress.</span></span><br /><span class="text">Incline your ear to me;</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">answer me speedily in the day when I call.</span></span></p></div> <div class="poetry top-1"><p class="line"><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">3</span>For my days pass away like smoke,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">and my bones burn like a furnace.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">4</span>My heart is stricken and withered like grass;</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">I am too wasted to eat my bread.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">5</span>Because of my loud groaning</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">my bones cling to my skin.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">6</span>I am like an owl of the wilderness,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">like a little owl of the waste places.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">7</span>I lie awake;</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">I am like a lonely bird on the housetop.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">8</span>All day long my enemies taunt me;</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">those who deride me use my name for a curse.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">9</span>For I eat ashes like bread,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">and mingle tears with my drink,</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">10</span>because of your indignation and anger;</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">for you have lifted me up and thrown me aside.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">11</span>My days are like an evening shadow;</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">I wither away like grass.</span></span></p></div> <div class="poetry top-1"><p class="line"><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">12</span>But you, O <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span>, are enthroned forever;</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">your name endures to all generations.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">13</span>You will rise up and have compassion on Zion,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">for it is time to favor it;</span></span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">the appointed time has come.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">14</span>For your servants hold its stones dear,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">and have pity on its dust.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">15</span>The nations will fear the name of the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span>,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">and all the kings of the earth your glory.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">16</span>For the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span> will build up Zion;</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">he will appear in his glory.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">17</span>He will regard the prayer of the destitute,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">and will not despise their prayer.</span></span></p></div> <div class="poetry top-1"><p class="line"><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">18</span>Let this be recorded for a generation to come,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">so that a people yet unborn may praise the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span>:</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">19</span>that he looked down from his holy height,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">from heaven the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span> looked at the earth,</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">20</span>to hear the groans of the prisoners,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">to set free those who were doomed to die;</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">21</span>so that the name of the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span> may be declared in Zion,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">and his praise in Jerusalem,</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">22</span>when peoples gather together,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">and kingdoms, to worship the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span>.</span></span></p></div> <div class="poetry top-1"><p class="line"><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">23</span>He has broken my strength in midcourse;</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">he has shortened my days.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">24</span>“O my God,” I say, “do not take me away</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">at the midpoint of my life,</span></span><br /><span class="text">you whose years endure</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">throughout all generations.”</span></span></p></div> <div class="poetry top-1"><p class="line"><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">25</span>Long ago you laid the foundation of the earth,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">and the heavens are the work of your hands.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">26</span>They will perish, but you endure;</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">they will all wear out like a garment.</span></span><br /><span class="text">You change them like clothing, and they pass away;</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">27</span><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span>but you are the same, and your years have no end.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">28</span>The children of your servants shall live secure;</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">their offspring shall be established in your presence.</span></span></p></div> </div></div></div></div></div> </div> </div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Scripture quotations are from the New Revised Standard Version Bible: Catholic Edition, copyright © 1989, 1993 National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. 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