en_cjb - Psa 102 - Ozzuu Bible

¹ [(0)] Prayer of a sufferer overcome by weakness and pouring out his complaint before ADONAI:

² [(1)] ADONAI, hear my prayer! Let my cry for help reach you!

³ [(2)] Don’t hide your face from me when I am in such distress! Turn your ear toward me; when I call, be quick to reply!

⁴ [(3)] For my days are vanishing like smoke, my bones are burning like a furnace.

⁵ [(4)] I am stricken and withered like grass; I forget to eat my food.

⁶ [(5)] Because of my loud groaning, I am just skin and bones.

⁷ [(6)] I am like a great owl in the desert, I’ve become like an owl in the ruins.

⁸ [(7)] I lie awake and become like a bird alone on the roof.

⁹ [(8)] My enemies taunt me all day long; mad with rage, they make my name a curse.

¹⁰ [(9)] For I have been eating ashes like bread and mingling tears with my drink

¹¹ [(10)] because of your furious anger, since you picked me up just to toss me aside.

¹² [(11)] My days decline like an evening shadow; I am drying up like grass.

¹³ [(12)] But you, ADONAI, are enthroned forever; your renown will endure through all generations.

¹⁴ [(13)] You will arise and take pity on Tziyon, for the time has come to have mercy on her; the time determined has come.

¹⁵ [(14)] For your servants love her very stones; they take pity even on her dust.

¹⁶ [(15)] The nations will fear the name of ADONAI and all the kings on earth your glory,

¹⁷ [(16)] when ADONAI has rebuilt Tziyon, and shows himself in his glory,

¹⁸ [(17)] when he has heeded the plea of the poor and not despised their prayer.

¹⁹ [(18)] May this be put on record for a future generation; may a people yet to be created praise ADONAI.

²⁰ [(19)] For he has looked down from the height of his sanctuary; from heaven ADONAI surveys the earth

²¹ [(20)] to listen to the sighing of the prisoner, to set free those who are sentenced to death,

²² [(21)] to proclaim the name of ADONAI in Tziyon and his praise in Yerushalayim

²³ [(22)] when peoples and kingdoms have been gathered together to serve ADONAI.

²⁴ [(23)] He has broken my strength in midcourse, he has cut short my days.

²⁵ [(24)] I plead, “God, your years last through all generations; so don’t take me away when my life is half over!

²⁶ [(25)] In the beginning, you laid the foundations of the earth; heaven is the work of your hands.

²⁷ [(26)] They will vanish, but you will remain; like clothing, they will all grow old; yes, you will change them like clothing, and they will pass away.

²⁸ [(27)] But you remain the same, and your years will never end.

²⁹ [(28)] The children of your servants will live securely and their descendants be established in your presence.”