Psalm 102

PSALM 102

Do Not Hide Your Face from Me

A Prayer of the afflicted when he is faint and ^†pours out his complaint before Yahweh.

^1aO Yahweh, hear my prayer!

And let my cry for help ^bcome to You.

^2aDo not hide Your face from me in the day of my distress;

^bIncline Your ear to me;

In the day when I call ^canswer me quickly.

³For my days ^ahave ¹vanished in smoke,

And my ^bbones have been scorched like a hearth.

⁴My heart ^ahas been stricken like ¹grass and it has ^bdried up,

Indeed, I ^cforget to eat my bread.

⁵Because of the sound of my groaning

My ^abones ¹cling to my flesh.

⁶I resemble a ^apelican of the wilderness;

I have become like an owl of the waste places.

⁷I ^alie awake,

I have become like a lonely bird on a roof.

⁸My enemies ^ahave reproached me all day long;

Those who ^1bridicule me ^cswear against me.

⁹For I have eaten ashes like bread

And ^amixed my drinks with weeping

^10aBecause of Your indignation and Your wrath,

For You have ^blifted me up and cast me away.

¹¹My days are like an ^aoutstretched shadow,

And as for me, I ^bdry up like ¹grass.

¹²But You, O Yahweh, ^1aabide forever,

And the ^bremembrance of Your name ²from generation to generation.

¹³You will ^aarise and have ^bcompassion on Zion—

For ^cit is time to be gracious to it,

For the ^dappointed time has come.

¹⁴For Your slaves ¹find pleasure in its stones

And show grace to its dust—

¹⁵¹So the ^2anations will fear the name of Yahweh

And ^ball the kings of the earth Your glory.

¹⁶For Yahweh has ^abuilt up Zion;

He has ^bappeared in His glory.

¹⁷He has ^aturned toward the prayer of the ¹destitute

And has not despised their prayer.

¹⁸¹This will be ^awritten for the ^bgeneration to come,

And ^ca people yet to be created will praise Yah.

¹⁹For He ^alooked down from His holy height;

^bFrom heaven Yahweh gazed ¹upon the earth,

²⁰To hear the ^agroaning of the prisoner,

To ^bset free ¹those who were doomed to death,

²¹To ^arecount the name of Yahweh in Zion

And His praise in Jerusalem,

²²When ^athe peoples are gathered together,

And the kingdoms, to serve Yahweh.

²³He has afflicted my strength in the way;

He has ^ashortened my days.

²⁴I say, “O my God, ^ado not take me away in the ¹midst of my days,

Your ^byears are from generation to all generations.

²⁵“Of old You ^afounded the earth,

And the ^bheavens are the work of Your hands.

²⁶“¹Even they will ^aperish, but You will remain;

And all of them will wear out like a garment;

Like clothing You will change them and they will be changed.

²⁷“But You are ^1athe same,

And Your years will not come to an end.

²⁸“The ^achildren of Your slaves will dwell securely,

And their ^bseed will be established before You.”