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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 Brenton's Septuagint 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> <script async src="https://www.googletagmanager.com/gtag/js?id=G-LR4HSKRP2H"></script> <script> window.dataLayer = window.dataLayer || []; function gtag(){dataLayer.push(arguments);} gtag('js', new Date()); gtag('config', 'G-LR4HSKRP2H'); </script><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="../">Brenton</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">Brenton's Septuagint 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><font color=blue>(101:1)</font> A Prayer for the Poor; when he is deeply afflicted, and pours out his supplication before the Lord. Hear my prayer, O Lord, and let my cry come to thee.<p> <A name="3"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/102-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span><font color=blue>(101:2)</font> Turn not away thy face from me: in the day <i>when</i> I am afflicted, incline thine ear to me: in the day <i>when</i> I shall call upon thee, speedily hear me.<p> <A name="4"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/102-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span><font color=blue>(101:3)</font> For my days have vanished like smoke, and my bones have been parched like a stick.<p> <A name="5"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/102-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span><font color=blue>(101:4)</font> I am blighted like grass, and my heart is dried up; for I have forgotten to eat my bread.<p> <A name="6"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/102-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span><font color=blue>(101:5)</font> By reason of the voice of my groaning, my bone has cleaved to my flesh.<p> <A name="7"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/102-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span><font color=blue>(101:6)</font> I have become like a pelican of the wilderness;<p> <A name="8"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/102-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span><font color=blue>(101:7)</font> I have become like an owl in a ruined house. I have watched, and am become as a sparrow dwelling alone on a roof.<p> <A name="9"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/102-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span><font color=blue>(101:8)</font> All the day long mine enemies have reproached me; and they that praised me have sworn against me.<p> <A name="10"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/102-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span><font color=blue>(101:9)</font> For I have eaten ashes as it were bread, and mingled my drink with weeping;<p> <A name="11"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/102-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span><font color=blue>(101:10)</font> because of thine anger and thy wrath: for thou hast lifted me up, and dashed me down.<p> <A name="12"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/102-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span><font color=blue>(101:11)</font> My days have declined like a shadow; and I am withered like grass.<p> <A name="13"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/102-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span><font color=blue>(101:12)</font> But thou, Lord, endurest for ever, and thy memorial to generation and generation.<p> <A name="14"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/102-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span><font color=blue>(101:13)</font> Thou shalt arise, and have mercy upon Sion: for <i>it is</i> time to have mercy upon her, for the set time is come.<p> <A name="15"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/102-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span><font color=blue>(101:14)</font> For thy servants have taken pleasure in her stones, and they shall pity her dust.<p> <A name="16"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/102-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span><font color=blue>(101:15)</font> So the nations shall fear thy name, O Lord, and all kings thy glory.<p> <A name="17"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/102-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span><font color=blue>(101:16)</font> For the Lord shall build up Sion, and shall appear in his glory.<p> <A name="18"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/102-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span><font color=blue>(101:17)</font> He has had regard to the prayer of the lowly, and has not despised their petition.<p> <A name="19"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/102-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span><font color=blue>(101:18)</font> Let this be written for another generation; and the people that shall be created shall praise the Lord.<p> <A name="20"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/102-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span><font color=blue>(101:19)</font> For he has looked out from the height of his sanctuary; the Lord looked upon the earth from heaven;<p> <A name="21"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/102-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span><font color=blue>(101:20)</font> to hear the groaning of the fettered ones, to loosen the sons of the slain;<p> <A name="22"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/102-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span><font color=blue>(101:21)</font> to proclaim the name of the Lord in Sion, and his praise in Jerusalem;<p> <A name="23"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/102-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span><font color=blue>(101:22)</font> when the people are gathered together, and the kings, to serve the Lord.<p> <A name="24"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/102-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span><font color=blue>(101:23)</font> He answered him in the way of his strength: tell me the fewness of my days.<p> <A name="25"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/102-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span><font color=blue>(101:24)</font> Take me not away in the midst of my days: thy years <i>are</i> through all generations.<p> <A name="26"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/102-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span><font color=blue>(101:25)</font> In the beginning thou, O Lord, didst lay the foundation of the earth; and the heavens are the works of thine hands.<p> <A name="27"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/102-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span><font color=blue>(101:26)</font> They shall perish, but thou remainest: and <i>they all</i> shall wax old as a garment; and as a vesture shalt thou fold 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><font color=blue>(101:27)</font> But thou art the same, and thy years shall not fail.<p> <A name=""></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/102-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span><font color=blue>(101:28)</font> The children of thy servants shall dwell <i>securely</i>, and their seed shall prosper for ever.<p><br /></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">The English translation of The Septuagint by Sir Lancelot Charles Lee Brenton (1851)<br><br>Section Headings Courtesy <a href="https://berean.bible">Berean Bible</i><span class="p"><br /><br /></span></div></div></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="../psalms/101.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="Psalm 101"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="Psalm 101" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="../psalms/103.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="Psalm 103"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="Psalm 103" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="bot"><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="/botmenubhchapnoad.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></td></tr></table></div></body></html>