Psalm 102 [Douay 101]

Psalm 102 in modern numbering

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

² Don’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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

¹⁶ For the LORD has built up Zion. He has appeared in his glory.

¹⁷ He has responded to the prayer of the destitute, and has not despised their prayer.

¹⁸ This will be written for the generation to come. A people which will be created will praise the LORD,

¹⁹ for he has looked down from the height of his sanctuary. From heaven, the LORD saw the earth,

²⁰ to hear the groans of the prisoner, to free those who are condemned to death,

²¹ that men may declare the LORD’s name in Zion, and his praise in Jerusalem,

²² when the peoples are gathered together, the kingdoms, to serve the LORD.

²³ He weakened my strength along the course. He shortened my days.

²⁴ I said, “My God, don’t take me away in the middle of my days. Your years are throughout all generations.

²⁵ Of old, you laid the foundation of the earth. The heavens are the work of your hands.

²⁶ They will perish, but you will endure. Yes, all of them will wear out like a garment. You will change them like a cloak, and they will be changed.

²⁷ But you are the same. Your years will have no end.

²⁸ The children of your servants will continue. Their offspring will be established before you.”

¹ TThe prayer of the poor man, when he was anxious, and poured out his supplication before the Lord.

² Hear, O Lord, my prayer: and let my cry come to thee.

³ Turn not away thy face from me: in the day when I am in trouble, incline thy ear to me. In what day soever I shall call upon thee, hear me speedily.

⁴ For my days are vanished like smoke, and my bones are grown dry like fuel for the fire.

⁵ I am smitten as grass, and my heart is withered: because I forgot to eat my bread.

⁶ Through the voice of my groaning, my bone hath cleaved to my flesh.

⁷ I am become like to a pelican of the wilderness: I am like a night raven in the house.

⁸ I have watched, and am become as a sparrow all alone on the housetop.

⁹ All the day long my enemies reproached me: and they that praised me did swear against me.

¹⁰ For I did eat ashes like bread, and mingled my drink with weeping.

¹¹ Because of thy anger and indignation: for having lifted me up thou hast thrown me down.

¹² My days have declined like a shadow, and I am withered like grass.

¹³ But thou, O Lord, endurest for ever: and thy memorial to all generations.

¹⁴ Thou shalt arise and have mercy on Sion: for it is time to have mercy on it, for the time is come.

¹⁵ For the stones thereof have pleased thy servants: and they shall have pity on the earth thereof.

¹⁶ And the Gentiles shall fear thy name, O Lord, and all the kings of the earth thy glory.

¹⁷ For the Lord hath built up Sion: and he shall be seen in his glory.

¹⁸ He hath had regard to the prayer of the humble: and he hath not despised their petition.

¹⁹ Let these things be written unto another generation: and the people that shall be created shall praise the Lord:

²⁰ Because he hath looked forth from his high sanctuary: from heaven the Lord hath looked upon the earth.

²¹ That he might hear the groans of them that are in fetters: that he might release the children of the slain:

²² That they may declare the name of the Lord in Sion: and his praise in Jerusalem;

²³ When the people assemble together, and kings, to serve the Lord.

²⁴ He answered him in the way of his strength: Declare unto me the fewness of my days.

²⁵ Call me not away in the midst of my days: thy years are unto generation and generation.

²⁶ In the beginning, O Lord, thou foundedst the earth: and the heavens are the works of thy hands.

²⁷ They shall perish but thou remainest: and all of them shall grow old like a garment: And as a vesture thou shalt change them, and they shall be changed.

²⁸ But thou art always the selfsame, and thy years shall not fail.

²⁹ The children of thy servants shall continue and their seed shall be directed for ever.