102Psalms 102

PSAL. CII. / 1 The Prophet in his prayer maketh a grieuous complaint. 12 He taketh comfort in the eternitie and mercie of God. 18 The mercies of God are to be recorded. 23 He sustaineth his weakenesse

1Heare my prayer, O Lord: and let my crie come vnto thee.Select Psalms 102:1

2Hide not thy face from me in the day when I am in trouble, incline thine eare vnto me: in the day when I call, answere mee speedily.Select Psalms 102:2

3For my dayes are consumed like smoke: and my bones are burnt as an hearth.Select Psalms 102:3

4My heart is smitten, and withered like grasse: so that I forget to eate my bread.Select Psalms 102:4

5By reason of the voice of my groning, my bones cleaue to my skinne.Select Psalms 102:5

6I am like a Pelican of the wildernes: I am like an owle of the desert.Select Psalms 102:6

7I watch, and am as a sparowe alone vpon the house top.Select Psalms 102:7

8Mine enemies reproch me all the day: and they that are mad against me, are sworne against me.Select Psalms 102:8

9For I haue eaten ashes like bread: and mingled my drinke with weeping.Select Psalms 102:9

10Because of thine indignation and thy wrath: for thou hast lifted me vp, and cast me downe.Select Psalms 102:10

11My dayes are like a shadow, that declineth: & I am withered like grasse.Select Psalms 102:11

12But thou, O Lord, shalt endure for euer: and thy remembrance vnto all generations.Select Psalms 102:12

13Thou shalt arise, and haue mercie vpon Zion: for the time to fauour her, yea the set time is come.Select Psalms 102:13

14For thy seruants take pleasure in her stones: and fauour the dust therof.Select Psalms 102:14

15So the heathen shall feare the Name of the Lord: and all the kings of the earth thy glory.Select Psalms 102:15

16When the Lord shall build vp Zion: he shall appeare in his glory.Select Psalms 102:16

17He will regard the prayer of the destitute, and not despise their prayer.Select Psalms 102:17

18This shall be written for the generation to come: and the people which shall be created, shall praise the Lord.Select Psalms 102:18

19For hee hath looked downe from the height of his Sanctuarie: from heauen did the Lord beholde the earth:Select Psalms 102:19

20To heare the groning of the prisoner: to loose those that are appointed to death:Select Psalms 102:20

21To declare the Name of the Lord in Zion: and his praise in Ierusalem:Select Psalms 102:21

22When the people are gathered together: and the kingdomes to serue the Lord.Select Psalms 102:22

23He weakened my strength in the way: he shortened my dayes.Select Psalms 102:23

24I said, O my God, take me not away in the midst of my dayes: thy yeres are throughout all generations.Select Psalms 102:24

25Of old hast thou laid the foundation of the earth: and the heauens are the worke of thy hands.Select Psalms 102:25

26They shall perish, but thou shalt indure, yea all of them shall waxe old like a garment: as a vesture shalt thou change them, and they shalbe changed.Select Psalms 102:26

27But thou art the same: and thy yeeres shall haue no end.Select Psalms 102:27

28The children of thy seruants shal continue: and their seed shall be established before thee.Select Psalms 102:28