Psalm 102:1–17

1 aHear my prayer, O Lord!

And let my cry for help bcome to You.

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

bIncline Your ear to me;

In the day when I call aanswer me quickly.

3 For my days ahave been 1consumed in smoke,

And my bbones have been scorched like a hearth.

4 My heart ahas been smitten like 1grass and has bwithered away,

Indeed, I cforget to eat my bread.

5 Because of the 1loudness of my groaning

My abones 2cling to my flesh.

6 I 1resemble a apelican of the wilderness;

I have become like an owl of the waste places.

7 I alie awake,

I have become like a lonely bird on a housetop.

8 My enemies ahave reproached me all day long;

Those who 1 bderide me 2have used my name as a ccurse.

9 For I have eaten ashes like bread

And amingled my drink with weeping

10 aBecause of Your indignation and Your wrath,

For You have blifted me up and cast me away.

11 My days are like a 1 alengthened shadow,

And 2I bwither away like 3grass.

12 But You, O Lord, 1 aabide forever,

And Your 2 bname to all generations.

13 You will aarise and have bcompassion on Zion;

For cit is time to be gracious to her,

For the dappointed time has come.

14 Surely Your servants 1find pleasure in her stones

And feel pity for her dust.

15 1So the 2 anations will fear the name of the Lord

And ball the kings of the earth Your glory.

16 For the Lord has abuilt up Zion;

He has bappeared in His glory.

17 He has aregarded the prayer of the 1destitute

And has not despised their prayer.