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102:1  Hear my prayer, O Lord, and let my cry come to You.
102:2  Hide not Your face from me in the day when I am in distress! Incline Your ear to me; in the day when I call, answer me speedily.
102:3  For my days consume away like smoke, and my bones burn like a firebrand or like a hearth.
102:4  My heart is smitten like grass and withered, so that [in absorption] I forget to eat my food.
102:5  By reason of my loud groaning [from suffering and trouble] my flesh cleaves to my bones.
102:6  I am like a melancholy pelican or vulture of the wilderness; I am like a [desolate] owl of the waste places.
102:7  I am sleepless and lie awake [mourning], like a bereaved sparrow alone on the housetop.
102:8  My adversaries taunt and reproach me all the day; and they who are angry with me use my name as a curse.
102:9  For I have eaten the ashes [in which I sat] as if they were bread and have mingled my drink with weeping
102:10  Because of Your indignation and Your wrath, for You have taken me up and cast me away.
102:11  My days are like an evening shadow that stretches out and declines [with the sun]; and I am withered like grass.
102:12  But You, O Lord, are enthroned forever; and the fame of Your name endures to all generations.
102:13  You will arise and have mercy and loving-kindness for Zion, for it is time to have pity and compassion for her; yes, the set time has come [the moment designated].
102:14  For Your servants take [melancholy] pleasure in the stones [of her ruins] and show pity for her dust.
102:15  So the nations shall fear and worshipfully revere the name of the Lord, and all the kings of the earth Your glory.
102:16  When the Lord builds up Zion, He will appear in His glory;
102:17  He will regard the plea of the destitute and will not despise their prayer.
102:18  Let this be recorded for the generation yet unborn, that a people yet to be created shall praise the Lord.
102:19  For He looked down from the height of His sanctuary, from heaven did the Lord behold the earth,
102:20  To hear the sighing and groaning of the prisoner, to loose those who are appointed to death,
102:21  So that men may declare the name of the Lord in Zion and His praise in Jerusalem
102:22  When peoples are gathered together, and the kingdoms, to worship and serve the Lord.
102:23  He has afflicted and weakened my strength, humbling and bringing me low [with sorrow] in the way; He has shortened my days [aging me prematurely].
102:24  I said, O my God, take me not away in the midst of my days, You Whose years continue throughout all generations.
102:25  At the beginning You existed and laid the foundations of the earth; the heavens are the work of Your hands.
102:26  They shall perish, but You shall remain and endure; yes, all of them shall wear out and become old like a garment. Like clothing You shall change them, and they shall be changed and pass away.
102:27  But You remain the same, and Your years shall have no end.
102:28  The children of Your servants shall dwell safely and continue, and their descendants shall be established before You.