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Psalm 102 :: Bible in Basic English (BBE)

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 102:1 - <A Prayer of the man who is in trouble, when he is overcome, and puts his grief before the Lord.> Give ear to my prayer, O Lord, and let my cry come to you.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 102:2 - Let not your face be veiled from me in the day of my trouble; give ear to me, and let my cry be answered quickly.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 102:3 - My days are wasted like smoke, and my bones are burned up as in a fire.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 102:4 - My heart is broken; it has become dry and dead like grass, so that I give no thought to food.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 102:5 - Because of the voice of my sorrow, my flesh is wasted to the bone.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 102:6 - I am like a bird living by itself in the waste places; like the night-bird in a waste of sand.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 102:7 - I keep watch like a bird by itself on the house-top.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 102:8 - My haters say evil of me all day; those who are violent against me make use of my name as a curse.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 102:9 - I have had dust for bread and my drink has been mixed with weeping:
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 102:10 - Because of your passion and your wrath, for I have been lifted up and then made low by you.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 102:11 - My days are like a shade which is stretched out; I am dry like the grass.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 102:12 - But you, O Lord, are eternal; and your name will never come to an end.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 102:13 - You will again get up and have mercy on Zion: for the time has come for her to be comforted.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 102:14 - For your servants take pleasure in her stones, looking with love on her dust.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 102:15 - So the nations will give honour to the name of the Lord, and all the kings of the earth will be in fear of his glory:
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 102:16 - When the Lord has put up the walls of Zion, and has been been in his glory;
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 102:17 - When he has given ear to the prayer of the poor, and has not put his request on one side.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 102:18 - This will be put in writing for the coming generation, and the people of the future will give praise to the Lord.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 102:19 - For from his holy place the Lord has seen, looking down on the earth from heaven;
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 102:20 - Hearing the cry of the prisoner, making free those for whom death is ordered;
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 102:21 - So that they may give out the name of the Lord in Zion, and his praise in Jerusalem;
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 102:22 - When the peoples are come together, and the kingdoms, to give worship to the Lord.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 102:23 - He has taken my strength from me in the way; he has made short my days.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 102:24 - I will say, O my God, take me not away before my time; your years go on through all generations:
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 102:25 - In the past you put the earth on its base, and the heavens are the work of your hands.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 102:26 - They will come to an end, but you will still go on; they all will become old like a coat, and like a robe they will be changed:
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 102:27 - But you are the unchanging One, and your years will have no end.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 102:28 - The children of your servants will have a safe resting-place, and their seed will be ever before you.
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The Bible in Basic English was translated by Professor Samuel Henry Hooke (1874-1968)
This translation of the Bible is in the public domain.

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