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Listen to my plea!<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/102-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span><span class="btext2">Hear my prayer, O LORD; let my cry come to you!</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/102-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span><span class="btext1">Don’t turn away from me in my time of distress. Bend down to listen, and answer me quickly when I call to you.<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/102-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span><span class="btext2">Do not hide your face from me in the day of my distress! Incline your ear to me; answer me speedily in the day when I call!</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/102-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span><span class="btext1">For my days disappear like smoke, and my bones burn like red-hot coals.<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/102-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span><span class="btext2">For my days pass away like smoke, and my bones burn like a furnace.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/102-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span><span class="btext1">My heart is sick, withered like grass, and I have lost my appetite.<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/102-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span><span class="btext2">My heart is struck down like grass and has withered; I forget to eat my bread.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/102-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span><span class="btext1">Because of my groaning, I am reduced to skin and bones.<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/102-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span><span class="btext2">Because of my loud groaning my bones cling to my flesh.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/102-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span><span class="btext1">I am like an owl in the desert, like a little owl in a far-off wilderness.<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/102-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span><span class="btext2">I am like a desert owl of the wilderness, like an owl of the waste places;</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/102-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span><span class="btext1">I lie awake, lonely as a solitary bird on the roof.<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/102-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span><span class="btext2">I lie awake; I am like a lonely sparrow on the housetop.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/102-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span><span class="btext1">My enemies taunt me day after day. They mock and curse me.<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/102-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span><span class="btext2">All the day my enemies taunt me; those who deride me use my name for a curse.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/102-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span><span class="btext1">I eat ashes for food. My tears run down into my drink<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/102-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span><span class="btext2">For I eat ashes like bread and mingle tears with my drink,</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/102-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span><span class="btext1">because of your anger and wrath. For you have picked me up and thrown me out.<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/102-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span><span class="btext2">because of your indignation and anger; for you have taken me up and thrown me down.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/102-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span><span class="btext1">My life passes as swiftly as the evening shadows. I am withering away like grass.<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/102-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span><span class="btext2">My days are like an evening shadow; I wither away like grass.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/102-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span><span class="btext1">But you, O LORD, will sit on your throne forever. Your fame will endure to every generation.<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/102-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span><span class="btext2">But you, O LORD, are enthroned forever; you are remembered throughout all generations.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/102-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span><span class="btext1">You will arise and have mercy on Jerusalem — and now is the time to pity her, now is the time you promised to help.<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/102-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span><span class="btext2">You will arise and have pity on Zion; it is the time to favor her; the appointed time has come.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/102-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span><span class="btext1">For your people love every stone in her walls and cherish even the dust in her streets.<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/102-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span><span class="btext2">For your servants hold her stones dear and have pity on her dust.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/102-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span><span class="btext1">Then the nations will tremble before the LORD. The kings of the earth will tremble before his glory.<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/102-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span><span class="btext2">Nations will fear the name of the LORD, and all the kings of the earth will fear your glory.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/102-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span><span class="btext1">For the LORD will rebuild Jerusalem. He will appear in his glory.<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/102-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span><span class="btext2">For the LORD builds up Zion; he appears in his glory;</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/102-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span><span class="btext1">He will listen to the prayers of the destitute. He will not reject their pleas.<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/102-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span><span class="btext2">he regards the prayer of the destitute and does not despise their prayer.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/102-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span><span class="btext1">Let this be recorded for future generations, so that a people not yet born will praise the LORD.<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/102-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span><span class="btext2">Let this be recorded for a generation to come, so that a people yet to be created may praise the LORD:</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/102-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span><span class="btext1">Tell them the LORD looked down from his heavenly sanctuary. He looked down to earth from heaven<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/102-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span><span class="btext2">that he looked down from his holy height; from heaven the LORD looked at the earth,</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/102-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span><span class="btext1">to hear the groans of the prisoners, to release those condemned to die.<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/102-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span><span class="btext2">to hear the groans of the prisoners, to set free those who were doomed to die,</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/102-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span><span class="btext1">And so the LORD’s fame will be celebrated in Zion, his praises in Jerusalem,<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/102-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span><span class="btext2">that they may declare in Zion the name of the LORD, and in Jerusalem his praise,</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/102-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span><span class="btext1">when multitudes gather together and kingdoms come to worship the LORD.<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/102-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span><span class="btext2">when peoples gather together, and kingdoms, to worship the LORD.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/102-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span><span class="btext1">He broke my strength in midlife, cutting short my days.<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/102-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span><span class="btext2">He has broken my strength in midcourse; he has shortened my days.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/102-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span><span class="btext1">But I cried to him, “O my God, who lives forever, don’t take my life while I am so young!<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/102-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span><span class="btext2">“O my God,” I say, “take me not away in the midst of my days— you whose years endure throughout all generations!”</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/102-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span><span class="btext1">Long ago you laid the foundation of the earth and made the heavens with your hands.<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/102-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span><span class="btext2">Of old you laid the foundation of the earth, and the heavens are the work of your hands.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/102-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span><span class="btext1">They will perish, but you remain forever; they will wear out like old clothing. You will change them like a garment and discard them.<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/102-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span><span class="btext2">They will perish, but you will remain; they will all wear out like a garment. You will change them like a robe, and they will pass away,</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/102-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span><span class="btext1">But you are always the same; you will live forever.<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/102-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span><span class="btext2">but you are the same, and your years have no end.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/102-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span><span class="btext1">The children of your people will live in security. Their children’s children will thrive in your presence.”<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/102-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span><span class="btext2">The children of your servants shall dwell secure; their offspring shall be established before you.</span></td></tr></table><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td class="copy" width="50%"><em>Holy Bible</em>, New Living Translation, copyright © 1996, 2004, 2015 by Tyndale House Foundation. Used by permission of <a href="http://www.tyndale.com">Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.</a>, Carol Stream, Illinois 60188. All rights reserved.</td><td class="copy" width="50%">ESV Text Edition: 2016. The ESV® Bible (The Holy Bible, English Standard Version®) copyright © 2001 by <a href="//www.crossway.org/home/esv/">Crossway Bibles</a>, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers. 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