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The sufferer describes wasting away, isolation, reproach, and Zion's desolation, then turns to God's everlasting throne, future mercy to Zion, and the Creator's unchanging permanence.
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Psalms 102
The sufferer describes wasting away, isolation, reproach, and Zion's desolation, then turns to God's everlasting throne, future mercy to Zion, and the Creator's unchanging permanence.
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1Hear my prayer, O LORD, and let my cry come…2Hide not thy face from me in the day when…3For my days are consumed like smoke, and my bones…4My heart is smitten, and withered like grass; so that…5By reason of the voice of my groaning my bones…6I am like a pelican of the wilderness: I am…7I watch, and am as a sparrow alone upon the…8Mine enemies reproach me all the day; and they that…9For I have eaten ashes like bread, and mingled my…10Because of thine indignation and thy wrath: for thou hast…11My days are like a shadow that declineth; and I…12But thou, O LORD, shalt endure for ever; and thy…13Thou shalt arise, and have mercy upon Zion: for the…14For thy servants take pleasure in her stones, and favour…15So the heathen shall fear the name of the LORD,…16When the LORD shall build up Zion, he shall appear…17He will regard the prayer of the destitute, and not…18This shall be written for the generation to come: and…19For he hath looked down from the height of his…20To hear the groaning of the prisoner; to loose those…21To declare the name of the LORD in Zion, and…22When the people are gathered together, and the kingdoms, to…23He weakened my strength in the way; he shortened my…24I said, O my God, take me not away in…25Of old hast thou laid the foundation of the earth:…26They shall perish, but thou shalt endure: yea, all of…27But thou art the same, and thy years shall have…28The children of thy servants shall continue, and their seed…