nsb - Psalms:102

nsb@Psalms:102:1 @ Hear my prayer, O Jehovah! And let my cry for help come to you.

nsb@Psalms:102:2 @ Do not hide your face from me in the day of my distress. Incline your ear to me. In the day when I call answer me quickly.

nsb@Psalms:102:3 @ My days have been consumed in smoke, and my bones have been scorched like a hearth.

nsb@Psalms:102:4 @ My heart has been stricken like grass and has withered away. In fact I forget to eat my bread.

nsb@Psalms:102:5 @ Because of the loudness of my groaning my bones cling to my flesh.

nsb@Psalms:102:6 @ I resemble a pelican of the wilderness. I have become like an owl of the waste places.

nsb@Psalms:102:7 @ I lie awake, I have become like a lonely bird on a housetop.

nsb@Psalms:102:8 @ All day long my enemies have reproached me. Those who deride me used my name as a curse.

nsb@Psalms:102:9 @ For I have eaten ashes like bread and mingled my drink with weeping.

nsb@Psalms:102:10 @ This is because of your indignation and your anger. You have lifted me up and cast me away.

nsb@Psalms:102:11 @ My days are like a lengthened shadow and I wither away like grass.

nsb@Psalms:102:12 @ But You, O Jehovah, remain forever. Your name is for all generations.

nsb@Psalms:102:13 @ You will arise and have compassion on Zion. It is time to be gracious to her for the appointed time has come.

nsb@Psalms:102:14 @ Your servants find pleasure in her stones and feel pity for her dust.

nsb@Psalms:102:15 @ So the nations will respect the name of Jehovah and all the kings of the earth will honor you.

nsb@Psalms:102:16 @ For Jehovah has built up Zion. He has appeared in His glory.

nsb@Psalms:102:17 @ He has respected the prayer of the destitute and has not despised their prayer.

nsb@Psalms:102:18 @ This will be written for the generation to come: That a people yet to be created may praise Jehovah.

nsb@Psalms:102:19 @ He looked down from his holy height. Jehovah gazed upon the earth from heaven.

nsb@Psalms:102:20 @ He heard the groaning of the prisoner, to set free those who were doomed to death.

nsb@Psalms:102:21 @ Let men tell of the Jehovahs name in Zion and his praise in Jerusalem,

nsb@Psalms:102:22 @ When the peoples and kingdoms are gathered together to serve Jehovah.

nsb@Psalms:102:23 @ He has weakened my strength in the way and has shortened my days.

nsb@Psalms:102:24 @ I say: »O my God, do not take me away in the middle of my days, your years are throughout all generations.

nsb@Psalms:102:25 @ »You founded the earth of old. The heavens are the work of your hands.

nsb@Psalms:102:26 @ »They will perish, but you endure. All of them will wear out like a garment; like clothing you will renew them and they will be renewed.

nsb@Psalms:102:27 @ »But you are the same. Your years will not come to an end.

nsb@Psalms:102:28 @ »The children of your servants will continue, and their descendants will be established before you.«