Psalms:102

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* Hear my prayer , O LORD , and let my cry come to thee . * Hide not thy face from me in the day of my distress . Incline thine ear to me . In the day when I call answer me speedily . * For my days consume away like smoke , and my bones are burned as a firebrand . * My heart is smitten like grass , and withered , for I forget to eat my bread . * Because of the voice of my groaning my bones cling to my flesh . * I am like a pelican of the wilderness . I have become as an owl of the waste places . * I watch , and have become like a sparrow that is alone upon the house-top . * My enemies reproach me all the day . Those who are mad against me do curse by me . * For I have eaten ashes like bread , and mingled my drink with weeping , * because of thine indignation and thy wrath . For thou have taken me up , and cast me away . * My days are like a shadow that declines , and I am withered like grass . * But thou , O LORD , will abide forever , and thy memorial to all generations . * Thou will arise , and have mercy upon Zion , for it is time to have pity upon her , yea , the set time has come . * For thy servants take pleasure in her stones , and have pity upon her dust . * So the nations shall fear the name of LORD , and all the kings of the earth thy glory . * For LORD has built up Zion . He has appeared in his glory . * He has regarded the prayer of the destitute , and has not despised their prayer . * This shall be written for the generation to come . And a people which shall be created shall praise LORD . * For he has looked down from the height of his sanctuary . From heaven LORD beheld the earth , * to hear the sighing of the prisoner , to loose those who are appointed to death , * that men may declare the name of LORD in Zion , and his praise in Jerusalem , * when the peoples are gathered together , and the kingdoms , to serve LORD . * He weakened my strength in the way . He shortened my days . * I said , O my God , take me not away in the midst of my days . Thy years are throughout all generations . * Of old thou laid the foundation of the earth , and the heavens are the work of thy hands . * They shall perish , but thou shall endure . Yea , all of them shall grow old like a garment . As a vesture thou shall change them , and they shall be changed , * but thou are the same , and thy years shall have no end . * The sons of thy servants shall continue , and their seed shall be established before thee .

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