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Psalms 102 (CEV)

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¹ (A prayer for someone who hurts and needs to ask the LORD for help.) I pray to you, LORD! Please listen. ² Don't hide from me in my time of trouble. Pay attention to my prayer and quickly give an answer. ³ My days disappear like smoke, and my bones are burning as though in a furnace. ⁴ I am wasting away like grass, and my appetite is gone. ⁵ My groaning never stops, and my bones can be seen through my skin. ⁶ I am like a lonely owl in the desert ⁷ or a restless sparrow alone on a roof. ⁸ My enemies insult me all day, and they use my name for a curse word. ⁹ Instead of food, I have ashes to eat and tears to drink, ¹⁰ because you are furious and have thrown me aside. ¹¹ My life fades like a shadow at the end of day and withers like grass. ¹² Our LORD, you are King forever and will always be famous. ¹³ You will show pity to Zion because the time has come. ¹⁴ We, your servants, love each stone in the city, and we are sad to see them lying in the dirt. ¹⁵ Our LORD, the nations will honor you, and all kings on earth will praise your glory. ¹⁶ You will rebuild the city of Zion. Your glory will be seen, ¹⁷ and the prayers of the homeless will be answered. ¹⁸ Future generations must also praise the LORD, so write this for them: ¹⁹ "From his holy temple, the LORD looked down at the earth. ²⁰ He listened to the groans of prisoners, and he rescued everyone who was doomed to die." ²¹ All Jerusalem should praise you, our LORD, ²² when people from every nation meet to worship you. ²³ I should still be strong, but you, LORD, have made an old person of me. ²⁴ You will live forever! Years mean nothing to you. Don't cut my life in half! ²⁵ In the beginning, LORD, you laid the earth's foundation and created the heavens. ²⁶ They will all disappear and wear out like clothes. You change them, as you would a coat, but you last forever. ²⁷ You are always the same. Years cannot change you. ²⁸ Every generation of those who serve you will live in your presence.