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| Chapter 102 | |
| 1 | Hear my prayer, O LORD, and let my cry come unto thee. | 
| 2 | Hide not thy face from me in the day when I am in trouble; incline thine ear unto me: in the day when I call answer me speedily. | 
| 3 | For my days are consumed like smoke, and my bones are burned as an hearth. | 
| 4 | My heart is smitten, and withered like grass; so that I forget to eat my bread. | 
| 5 | By reason of the voice of my groaning my bones cleave to my skin. | 
| 6 | I am like a pelican of the wilderness: I am like an owl of the desert. | 
| 7 | I watch, and am as a sparrow alone upon the house top. | 
| 8 | Mine enemies reproach me all the day; and they that are mad against me are sworn against me. | 
| 9 | For I have eaten ashes like bread, and mingled my drink with weeping. | 
| 10 | Because of thine indignation and thy wrath: for thou hast lifted me up, and cast me down. | 
| 11 | My days are like a shadow that declineth; and I am withered like grass. | 
| 12 | But thou, O LORD, shall endure for ever; and thy remembrance unto all generations. | 
| 13 | Thou shalt arise, and have mercy upon Zion: for the time to favour her, yea, the set time, is come. | 
| 14 | For thy servants take pleasure in her stones, and favour the dust thereof. | 
| 15 | So the heathen shall fear the name of the LORD, and all the kings of the earth thy glory. | 
| 16 | When the LORD shall build up Zion, he shall appear in his glory. | 
| 17 | He will regard the prayer of the destitute, and not despise their prayer. | 
| 18 | This shall be written for the generation to come: and the people which shall be created shall praise the LORD. | 
| 19 | For he hath looked down from the height of his sanctuary; from heaven did the LORD behold the earth; | 
| 20 | To hear the groaning of the prisoner; to loose those that are appointed to death; | 
| 21 | To declare the name of the LORD in Zion, and his praise in Jerusalem; | 
| 22 | When the people are gathered together, and the kingdoms, to serve the LORD. | 
| 23 | He weakened my strength in the way; he shortened my days. | 
| 24 | I said, O my God, take me not away in the midst of my days: thy years are throughout all generations. | 
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Of old hast thou laid the 
foundation of the earth: and the heavens are the work of thy hands.
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1They shall 2perish, but thou 
shalt endure: yea, all of them shall wax old like a garment; as a vesture shalt 
thou change them, and they shall be changed:
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But thou art the same, and thy years shall have no 
end.
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| 28 | The children of thy servants shall continue, and their seed shall be established before thee. | 

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