Psalm 102

¹Hear my prayer, LORD! Let my cry come to you.

²Don’t hide your face from me in the day of my distress. Turn your ear to me. Answer me quickly in the day when I call.

³For my days consume away like smoke. My bones are burned as a torch.

⁴My heart is blighted like grass, and withered, for I forget to eat my bread.

⁵By reason of the voice of my groaning, my bones stick to my skin.

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

⁷I watch, and have become like a sparrow that is alone on the housetop.

⁸My enemies reproach me all day. Those who are mad at me use my name as a curse.

⁹For I have eaten ashes like bread, and mixed my drink with tears,

¹⁰because of your indignation and your wrath; for you have taken me up and thrown me away.

¹¹My days are like a long shadow. I have withered like grass.

¹²But you, LORD, will remain forever; your renown endures to all generations.

¹³You will arise and have mercy on Zion, for it is time to have pity on her. Yes, the set time has come.

¹⁴For your servants take pleasure in her stones, and have pity on her dust.

¹⁵So the nations will fear the LORD’s name, all the kings of the earth your glory.