102[A prayer of one overwhelmed with trouble, pouring out problems before the Lord.] Lord, hear my prayer! Listen to my plea!H8605H6041H5848H8210H7879H6440H3068H8085H8605H3068H7775H9352Don’t turn away from me in my time of distress. Bend down to listen, and answer me quickly when I call to you.H5641H6440H3117H6862H5186H241H3117H7121H6030H41183For my days disappear like smoke, and my bones burn like red-hot coals.H3117H3615H6227H6106H2787H41684My heart is sick, withered like grass, and I have lost my appetite.H3820H5221H3001H6212H7911H398H38995Because of my groaning, I am reduced to skin and bones.H6963H585H6106H1692H13206I am like an owl in the desert, like a little owl in a far-off wilderness.H1819H6893H4057H3563H27237I lie awake, lonely as a solitary bird on the roof.H8245H6833H909H14068My enemies taunt me day after day. They mock and curse me.H341H2778H3117H1984H76509I eat ashes for food. My tears run down into my drinkH398H665H3899H4537H8249H106510because of your anger and wrath. For you have picked me up and thrown me out.H6440H2195H7110H5375H799311My life passes as swiftly as the evening shadows. I am withering away like grass.H3117H6738H5186H3001H621212But you, O Lord, will sit on your throne forever. Your fame will endure to every generation.H3068H3427H5769H2143H1755H175513You will arise and have mercy on Jerusalem—and now is the time to pity her, now is the time you promised to help.H6965H7355H6726H6256H2603H4150H93514For your people love every stone in her walls and cherish even the dust in her streets.H5650H7521H68H2603H608315Then the nations will tremble before the Lord. The kings of the earth will tremble before his glory.H1471H3372H8034H3068H4428H776H351916For the Lord will rebuild Jerusalem. He will appear in his glory.H3068H1129H6726H7200H351917He will listen to the prayers of the destitute. He will not reject their pleas.H6437H8605H6199H959H860518Let this be recorded for future generations, so that a people not yet born will praise the Lord.H3789H1755H314H5971H1254H1984H305019Tell them the Lord looked down from his heavenly sanctuary. He looked down to earth from heavenH8259H4791H6944H8064H3068H5027H77620to hear the groans of the prisoners, to release those condemned to die.H8085H603H615H6605H1121H854621And so the Lord’s fame will be celebrated in Zion, his praises in Jerusalem,H5608H8034H3068H6726H8416H338922when multitudes gather together and kingdoms come to worship the Lord.H5971H6908H3162H4467H5647H306823He broke my strength in midlife, cutting short my days.H6031H3581H1870H7114H311724But I cried to him, “O my God, who lives forever, don’t take my life while I am so young!H559H410H5927H2677H3117H8141H1755H175525Long ago you laid the foundation of the earth and made the heavens with your hands.H6440H3245H776H8064H4639H302726They will perish, but you remain forever; they will wear out like old clothing. You will change them like a garment and discard them.H6H5975H1086H899H3830H2498H249827But you are always the same; you will live forever.H8141H855228The children of your people will live in security. Their children’s children will thrive in your presence.”H1121H5650H7931H2233H3559H6440
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—and now is the time to pity her, now is the time you promised to help.H6965
