Psalm 102 

¹Hear my prayer, O Jehovah, And let my cry come unto thee. ²Hide not thy face from me in the day of my distress: Incline thine ear unto me; In the day when I call answer me speedily. ³For my days consume away like smoke, And my bones are burned as a firebrand. ⁴My heart is smitten like grass, and withered; For I forget to eat my bread. ⁵By reason of the voice of my groaning My bones cleave to my flesh. ⁶I am like a pelican of the wilderness; I am become as an owl of the waste places. ⁷I watch, and am become like a sparrow That is alone upon the house-top. ⁸Mine enemies reproach me all the day; They that are mad against me do curse by me. ⁹For I have eaten ashes like bread, And mingled my drink with weeping, ¹⁰Because of thine indignation and thy wrath: For thou hast taken me up, and cast me away. ¹¹My days are like a shadow that declineth; And I am withered like grass. ¹²But thou, O Jehovah, wilt abide for ever; And thy memorial name unto all generations. ¹³Thou wilt arise, and have mercy upon Zion; For it is time to have pity upon her, Yea, the set time is come. ¹⁴For thy servants take pleasure in her stones, And have pity upon her dust. ¹⁵So the nations shall fear the name of Jehovah, And all the kings of the earth thy glory. ¹⁶For Jehovah hath built up Zion; He hath appeared in his glory. ¹⁷He hath regarded the prayer of the destitute, And hath not despised their prayer. ¹⁸This shall be written for the generation to come; And a people which shall be created shall praise Jehovah. ¹⁹For he hath looked down from the height of his sanctuary; From heaven did Jehovah behold the earth; ²⁰To hear the sighing of the prisoner; To loose those that are appointed to death; ²¹That men may declare the name of Jehovah in Zion, And his praise in Jerusalem; ²²When the peoples are gathered together, And the kingdoms, to serve Jehovah. ²³He weakened my strength in the way; He shortened my days. ²⁴I said, O my God, take me not away in the midst of my days: Thy years are throughout all generations. ²⁵Of old didst thou lay the foundation of the earth; And the heavens are the work of thy hands. ²⁶They shall perish, 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: ²⁷But thou art the same, And thy years shall have no end. ²⁸The children of thy servants shall continue, And their seed shall be established before thee.

¹Bless Jehovah, O my soul; And all that is within me, bless his holy name. ²Bless Jehovah, O my soul, And forget not all his benefits: ³Who forgiveth all thine iniquities; Who healeth all thy diseases; ⁴Who redeemeth thy life from destruction; Who crowneth thee with lovingkindness and tender mercies; ⁵Who satisfieth thy desire with good things, So that thy youth is renewed like the eagle. ⁶Jehovah executeth righteous acts, And judgments for all that are oppressed. ⁷He made known his ways unto Moses, His doings unto the children of Israel. ⁸Jehovah is merciful and gracious, Slow to anger, and abundant in lovingkindness. ⁹He will not always chide; Neither will he keep his anger for ever. ¹⁰He hath not dealt with us after our sins, Nor rewarded us after our iniquities. ¹¹For as the heavens are high above the earth, So great is his lovingkindness toward them that fear him. ¹²As far as the east is from the west, So far hath he removed our transgressions from us. ¹³Like as a father pitieth his children, So Jehovah pitieth them that fear him. ¹⁴For he knoweth our frame; He remembereth that we are dust. ¹⁵As for man, his days are as grass; As a flower of the field, so he flourisheth. ¹⁶For the wind passeth over it, and it is gone; And the place thereof shall know it no more. ¹⁷But the lovingkindness of Jehovah is from everlasting to everlasting upon them that fear him, And his righteousness unto children's children; ¹⁸To such as keep his covenant, And to those that remember his precepts to do them. ¹⁹Jehovah hath established his throne in the heavens; And his kingdom ruleth over all. ²⁰Bless Jehovah, ye his angels, That are mighty in strength, that fulfil his word, Hearkening unto the voice of his word. ²¹Bless Jehovah, all ye his hosts, Ye ministers of his, that do his pleasure. ²²Bless Jehovah, all ye his works, In all places of his dominion: Bless Jehovah, O my soul.