Book - Psalms - Chapter = 102 --> NLT
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LORD, hear my prayer! Listen to my plea!
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Don't turn away from me in my time of distress. Bend down your ear and answer me quickly when I call to you,
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for my days disappear like smoke, and my bones burn like red-hot coals.
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My heart is sick, withered like grass, and I have lost my appetite.
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Because of my groaning, I am reduced to skin and bones.
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I am like an owl in the desert, like a lonely owl in a far-off wilderness.
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I lie awake, lonely as a solitary bird on the roof.
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My enemies taunt me day after day. They mock and curse me.
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I eat ashes instead of my food. My tears run down into my drink
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because of your anger and wrath. For you have picked me up and thrown me out.
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My life passes as swiftly as the evening shadows. I am withering like grass.
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But you, O LORD, will rule forever. Your fame will endure to every generation.
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You will arise and have mercy on Jerusalem--and now is the time to pity her, now is the time you promised to help.
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For your people love every stone in her walls and show favor even to the dust in her streets.
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And the nations will tremble before the LORD. The kings of the earth will tremble before his glory.
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For the LORD will rebuild Jerusalem. He will appear in his glory.
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He will listen to the prayers of the destitute. He will not reject their pleas.
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Let this be recorded for future generations, so that a nation yet to be created will praise the LORD.
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Tell them the LORD looked down from his heavenly sanctuary. He looked to the earth from heaven
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to hear the groans of the prisoners, to release those condemned to die.
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And so the LORD's fame will be celebrated in Zion, his praises in Jerusalem,
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when multitudes gather together and kingdoms come to worship the LORD.
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He has cut me down in midlife, shortening my days.
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But I cried to him, "My God, who lives forever, don't take my life while I am still so young!
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In ages past you laid the foundation of the earth, and the heavens are the work of your hands.
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Even they will perish, but you remain forever; they will wear out like old clothing. You will change them like a garment, and they will fade away.
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But you are always the same; your years never end.
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The children of your people will live in security. Their children's children will thrive in your presence."