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102:1  Listen to my prayer, O Lord, and hear my cry for help!
102:2  When I am in trouble, don't turn away from me! Listen to me, and answer me quickly when I call!
102:3  My life is disappearing like smoke; my body is burning like fire.
102:4  I am beaten down like dry grass; I have lost my desire for food.
102:5  I groan aloud; I am nothing but skin and bones.
102:6  I am like a wild bird in the desert, like an owl in abandoned ruins.
102:7  I lie awake; I am like a lonely bird on a housetop.
102:8  All day long my enemies insult me; those who mock me use my name in cursing.
102:9  Because of your anger and fury, ashes are my food, and my tears are mixed with my drink. You picked me up and threw me away.
102:10  Because of your anger and fury, ashes are my food, and my tears are mixed with my drink. You picked me up and threw me away.
102:11  My life is like the evening shadows; I am like dry grass.
102:12  But you, O Lord, are king forever; all generations will remember you.
102:13  You will rise and take pity on Zion; the time has come to have mercy on her; this is the right time.
102:14  Your servants love her, even though she is destroyed; they have pity on her, even though she is in ruins.
102:15  The nations will fear the Lord; all the kings of the earth will fear his power.
102:16  When the Lord rebuilds Zion, he will reveal his greatness.
102:17  He will hear his forsaken people and listen to their prayer.
102:18  Write down for the coming generation what the Lord has done, so that people not yet born will praise him.
102:19  The Lord looked down from his holy place on high, he looked down from heaven to earth.
102:20  He heard the groans of prisoners and set free those who were condemned to die.
102:21  And so his name will be proclaimed in Zion, and he will be praised in Jerusalem
102:22  when nations and kingdoms come together and worship the Lord.
102:23  The Lord has made me weak while I am still young; he has shortened my life.
102:24  O God, do not take me away now before I grow old. O Lord, you live forever;
102:25  long ago you created the earth, and with your own hands you made the heavens.
102:26  They will disappear, but you will remain; they will all wear out like clothes. You will discard them like clothes, and they will vanish.
102:27  But you are always the same, and your life never ends.
102:28  Our children will live in safety, and under your protection their descendants will be secure.