Holy Bible - New Revised Standard Version(NRSV)

102:1	Hear my prayer, O LORD; let my cry come to you.
102:2	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.
102:3	For my days pass away like smoke, and my bones burn like a furnace.
102:4	My heart is stricken and withered like grass; I am too wasted to eat my bread.
102:5	Because of my loud groaning my bones cling to my skin.
102:6	I am like an owl of the wilderness, like a little owl of the waste places.
102:7	I lie awake; I am like a lonely bird on the housetop.
102:8	All day long my enemies taunt me; those who deride me use my name for a curse.
102:9	For I eat ashes like bread, and mingle tears with my drink,
102:10	because of your indignation and anger; for you have lifted me up and thrown me aside.
102:11	My days are like an evening shadow; I wither away like grass.
102:12	But you, O LORD, are enthroned forever; your name endures to all generations.
102:13	You will rise up and have compassion on Zion, for it is time to favor it; the appointed time has come.
102:14	For your servants hold its stones dear, and have pity on its dust.
102:15	The nations will fear the name of the LORD, and all the kings of the earth your glory.
102:16	For the LORD will build up Zion; he will appear in his glory.
102:17	He will regard the prayer of the destitute, and will not despise their prayer.
102:18	Let this be recorded for a generation to come, so that a people yet unborn may praise the LORD:
102:19	that he looked down from his holy height, from heaven the LORD looked at the earth,
102:20	to hear the groans of the prisoners, to set free those who were doomed to die;
102:21	so that the name of the LORD may be declared in Zion, and his praise in Jerusalem,
102:22	when peoples gather together, and kingdoms, to worship the LORD.
102:23	He has broken my strength in midcourse; he has shortened my days.
102:24	"O my God," I say, "do not take me away at the mid-point of my life, you whose years endure throughout all generations."
102:25	Long ago you laid the foundation of the earth, and the heavens are the work of your hands.
102:26	They will perish, but you endure; they will all wear out like a garment. You change them like clothing, and they pass away;
102:27	but you are the same, and your years have no end.
102:28	The children of your servants shall live secure; their offspring shall be established in your presence.
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