Chapter Text
102:1 A prayer of the afflicted, when he shall be in distresse, and pour forth his meditation before the Lord. O Lord, heare my prayer, and let my crye come vnto thee.
102:2 Hide not thy face from me in the time of my trouble: incline thine eares vnto me: when I call, make haste to heare me.
102:3 For my dayes are consumed like smoke, and my bones are burnt like an herthe.
102:4 Mine heart is smitten and withereth like grasse, because I forgate to eate my bread.
102:5 For the voyce of my groning my bones doe cleaue to my skinne.
102:6 I am like a pelicane of the wildernesse: I am like an owle of the deserts.
102:7 I watch and am as a sparrowe alone vpon the house top.
102:8 Mine enemies reuile me dayly, and they that rage against me, haue sworne against me.
102:9 Surely I haue eaten asshes as bread, and mingled my drinke with weeping,
102:10 Because of thine indignation and thy wrath: for thou hast heaued me vp, and cast me downe.
102:11 My dayes are like a shadowe that fadeth, and I am withered like grasse.
102:12 But thou, O Lord, doest remaine for euer, and thy remembrance from generation to generation.
102:13 Thou wilt arise and haue mercy vpon Zion: for the time to haue mercie thereon, for the appointed time is come.
102:14 For thy seruants delite in the stones thereof, and haue pitie on the dust thereof.
102:15 Then the heathen shall feare the Name of the Lord, and all the Kings of the earth thy glory,
102:16 When the Lord shall build vp Zion, and shall appeare in his glory,
102:17 And shall turne vnto the prayer of the desolate, and not despise their prayer.
102:18 This shall be written for the generation to come: and the people, which shalbe created, shall prayse the Lord.
102:19 For he hath looked downe from the height of his Sanctuarie: out of the heauen did the Lord beholde the earth,
102:20 That he might heare the mourning of the prisoner, and deliuer the children of death:
102:21 That they may declare the Name of the Lord in Zion, and his prayse in Ierusalem,
102:22 When the people shalbe gathered together, and the kingdomes to serue the Lord.
102:23 He abated my strength in the way, and shortened my dayes.
102:24 And I sayd, O my God, take me not away in the middes of my dayes: thy yeeres endure from generation to generation.
102:25 Thou hast aforetime layde the foundation of the earth, and the heauens are the worke of thine hands.
102:26 They shall perish, but thou shalt endure: euen they all shall waxe olde as doeth a garment: as a vesture shalt thou change them, and they shall be changed.
102:27 But thou art the same, and thy yeeres shall not fayle.
102:28 The children of thy seruants shall continue, and their seede shall stand fast in thy sight.