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Psalm 102 :: New American Standard Bible 1995 (NASB95)

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Prayer of an Afflicted Man for Mercy on Himself and on Zion.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 102:1 - A Prayer of the Afflicted when he is faint and [fn]pours out his complaint before the LORD.
Hear my prayer, O LORD!
And let my cry for help come to You.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 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.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 102:3 - For my days have been [fn]consumed in smoke,
And my bones have been scorched like a hearth.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 102:4 - My heart has been smitten like [fn]grass and has withered away,
Indeed, I forget to eat my bread.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 102:5 - Because of the [fn]loudness of my groaning
My bones [fn]cling to my flesh.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 102:6 - I [fn]resemble a pelican of the wilderness;
I have become like an owl of the waste places.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 102:7 - I lie awake,
I have become like a lonely bird on a housetop.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 102:8 - My enemies have reproached me all day long;
Those who [fn]deride me [fn]have used my name as a curse.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 102:9 - For I have eaten ashes like bread
And mingled my drink with weeping
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 102:10 - Because of Your indignation and Your wrath,
For You have lifted me up and cast me away.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 102:11 - My days are like a [fn]lengthened shadow,
And [fn]I wither away like [fn]grass.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 102:12 - But You, O LORD, [fn]abide forever,
And Your [fn]name to all generations.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 102:13 - You will arise and have compassion on Zion;
For it is time to be gracious to her,
For the appointed time has come.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 102:14 - Surely Your servants [fn]find pleasure in her stones
And feel pity for her dust.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 102:15 - [fn]So the [fn]nations will fear the name of the LORD
And all the kings of the earth Your glory.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 102:16 - For the LORD has built up Zion;
He has appeared in His glory.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 102:17 - He has regarded the prayer of the [fn]destitute
And has not despised their prayer.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 102:18 - [fn]This will be written for the generation to come,
[fn]That a people yet to be created [fn]may praise [fn]the LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 102:19 - For He looked down from His holy height;
From heaven the LORD gazed [fn]upon the earth,
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 102:20 - To hear the groaning of the prisoner,
To set free [fn]those who were doomed to death,
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 102:21 - That men may tell of the name of the LORD in Zion
And His praise in Jerusalem,
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 102:22 - When the peoples are gathered together,
And the kingdoms, to serve the LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 102:23 - He has weakened my strength in the way;
He has shortened my days.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 102:24 - I say, “O my God, do not take me away in the [fn]midst of my days,
Your years are throughout all generations.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 102:25 - “Of old You founded the earth,
And the heavens are the work of Your hands.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 102:26 - [fn]Even they will perish, but You endure;
And all of them will wear out like a garment;
Like clothing You will change them and they will be changed.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 102:27 - “But You are [fn]the same,
And Your years will not come to an end.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 102:28 - “The children of Your servants will continue,
And their [fn]descendants will be established before You.”
NASB95 Footnotes
Ps 142:2
Or, finished
Literally: herbage
Literally: voice
Literally: have cleaved
Literally: have become similar to
Or, made a fool of
Literally: have sworn by me
Literally: stretched out
Or, as for me, I
Literally: herbage
Or, sit enthroned
Literally: memorial
Or, have found
Or, And
Or, Gentiles, heathen
Or, naked
Or, Let this be written
Or, And
Or, will
Hebrew: YAH
Literally: toward
Literally: the sons of death
Literally: half
Literally: They themselves
Literally: He
Literally: seed
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New American Standard Bible 1995
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