Psalm 102

¹Hear my prayer, O Jehovah, And let my cry come unto thee.

²Hide not thy face from me in the day of my distress: Incline thine ear unto me; In the day when I call answer me speedily.

³For my days consume away like smoke, And my bones are burned as a firebrand.

⁴My heart is smitten like grass, and withered; For I forget to eat my bread.

⁵By reason of the voice of my groaning My bones cleave to my flesh.

⁶I am like a pelican of the wilderness; I am become as an owl of the waste places.

⁷I watch, and am become like a sparrow That is alone upon the house-top.

⁸Mine enemies reproach me all the day; They that are mad against me do curse by me.

⁹For I have eaten ashes like bread, And mingled my drink with weeping,

¹⁰Because of thine indignation and thy wrath: For thou hast taken me up, and cast me away.

¹¹My days are like a shadow that declineth; And I am withered like grass.

¹²But thou, O Jehovah, wilt abide for ever; And thy memorial name unto all generations.

¹³Thou wilt arise, and have mercy upon Zion; For it is time to have pity upon her, Yea, the set time is come.

¹⁴For thy servants take pleasure in her stones, And have pity upon her dust.

¹⁵So the nations shall fear the name of Jehovah, And all the kings of the earth thy glory.