{"id":1493,"date":"2024-10-23T12:18:38","date_gmt":"2024-10-23T16:18:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/know\/?p=851"},"modified":"2024-10-23T12:18:41","modified_gmt":"2024-10-23T16:18:41","slug":"psalm-102-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/2024\/10\/23\/psalm-102-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Psalm 102"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Psa 102:1  A Prayer of the afflicted, when he is faint and pours out his complaint before Jehovah. Hear my prayer, O Jehovah, and let my cry come to You.<br \/>\nPsa 102:2  Do not hide Your face from me in the day of my trouble; bow down Your ear to me in the day I call; answer me quickly.<br \/>\nPsa 102:3  For my days are finished in smoke, and my bones are burned like a burning heap.<br \/>\nPsa 102:4  My heart is stricken and dried like grass, so that I forget to eat my bread.<br \/>\nPsa 102:5  Because of the voice of my sighing, my bones cleave to my flesh.<br \/>\nPsa 102:6  I am like a pelican of the wilderness; I am like an owl of the desert.<br \/>\nPsa 102:7  I watch and am like a sparrow alone on the housetop.<br \/>\nPsa 102:8  My enemies curse me all the day long; those who rave against me have sworn against me.<br \/>\nPsa 102:9  For I have eaten ashes like bread, and have mixed my drink with weeping,<br \/>\nPsa 102:10  because of Your anger and Your wrath; for You have lifted me and cast me down.<br \/>\nPsa 102:11  My days are like a shadow stretched out, and I wither like grass.<br \/>\nPsa 102:12  But You, O Jehovah, shall dwell forever, and Your memory to generation and generation.<br \/>\nPsa 102:13  You shall arise; have mercy on Zion, for the time to pity her, yea, the appointed time has come.<br \/>\nPsa 102:14  For Your servants take pleasure in its stones, and pity its dust.<br \/>\nPsa 102:15  So nations shall fear the name of Jehovah, and all the kings of the earth Your glory.<br \/>\nPsa 102:16  When Jehovah shall build up Zion, He shall be seen in His glory.<br \/>\nPsa 102:17  He will turn to the prayer of the destitute, and will not despise their prayer.<br \/>\nPsa 102:18  This shall be written for the generation to come, and people to be created shall praise Jehovah.<br \/>\nPsa 102:19  For He has looked down from the height of His sanctuary; Jehovah looked from Heaven to the earth,<br \/>\nPsa 102:20  to hear the groaning of the prisoner, to set free the sons of death,<br \/>\nPsa 102:21  to declare the name of Jehovah in Zion, and His praise in Jerusalem,<br \/>\nPsa 102:22  when the peoples and the kingdoms are gathered together to serve Jehovah.<br \/>\nPsa 102:23  He diminished my strength in the way; He shortened my days.<br \/>\nPsa 102:24  I said, O my God, do not take me up in the half of my days; Your years are through the generation of generations.<br \/>\nPsa 102:25  Before time You founded the earth, and the heavens are the work of Your hands.<br \/>\nPsa 102:26  They shall perish, but You shall endure; yea, all of them shall wear out like a garment; You shall change them like clothing, and they shall be changed.<br \/>\nPsa 102:27  But You are He, and Your years shall not be ended.<br \/>\nPsa 102:28  The sons of Your servants shall dwell, and their seed shall be established before You.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Psa 102:1  A Prayer of the afflicted, when he is faint and pours out his complaint before Jehovah. 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