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Psalms 102

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Part of Book IV📖 Psalms introduction

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1Hear my prayer, Lord! And let my cry for help come to You. ✦ 2Do not hide Your face from me on the day of my distress; Incline Your ear to me; On the day when I call answer me quickly. ✦ 3For my days have ended in smoke, And my bones have been scorched like a hearth. ✦ 4My heart has been struck like grass and has withered, Indeed, I forget to eat my bread. ✦ 5Because of the loudness of my groaning My bones cling to my flesh. ✦ 6I resemble a pelican of the wilderness; I have become like an owl of the ruins. ✦ 7I lie awake, I have become like a solitary bird on a housetop. ✦ 8¶My enemies have taunted me all day long; Those who deride me have used my name as a curse. ✦ 9For I have eaten ashes like bread, And mixed my drink with weeping ✦ 10Because of Your indignation and Your wrath; For You have lifted me up and thrown me away. ✦ 11My days are like a lengthened shadow, And I wither away like grass. ✦ 12¶But You, Lord, remain forever, And Your name remains to all generations. ✦ 13You will arise and have compassion on Zion; For it is time to be gracious to her, For the appointed time has come. ✦ 14Surely Your servants take pleasure in her stones, And feel pity for her dust. ✦ 15So the nations will fear the name of the Lord, And all the kings of the earth, Your glory. ✦ 16For the Lord has built up Zion; He has appeared in His glory. ✦ 17He has turned His attention to the prayer of the destitute And has not despised their prayer. ✦ 18¶This will be written for the generation to come, That a people yet to be created may praise the Lord: ✦ 19For He looked down from His holy height; From heaven the Lord looked upon the earth, ✦ 20To hear the groaning of the prisoner, To set free those who were doomed to death, ✦ 21So that people may tell of the name of the Lord in Zion, And His praise in Jerusalem, ✦ 22When the peoples are gathered together, And the kingdoms, to serve the Lord. ✦ 23¶He has broken my strength in the way; He has shortened my days. ✦ 24I say, “My God, do not take me away in the middle of my days, Your years are throughout all generations. ✦ 25“In time of old You founded the earth, And the heavens are the work of Your hands. ✦ 26“Even they will perish, but You endure; All of them will wear out like a garment; Like clothing You will change them and they will pass away. ✦ 27“But You are the same, And Your years will not come to an end. ✦ 28“The children of Your servants will continue, And their descendants will be established before You.” ✦

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Where this chapter connects

Lam 3 ·10Ps 69 ·10Ps 22 ·8Isa 60 ·7Ps 102 ·6Ps 90 ·5Ps 38 ·5Isa 65 ·5

Christ at the center

The Psalms are Christ's own prayer book and a gallery of his portraits — the suffering one of Psalm 22, the risen Lord of Psalm 16, the priest-king of Psalm 110, the Son to whom the nations are given.

How Psalms 102 points to him is part of the one story that runs through all Scripture — meet Jesus at the heart of the web, or follow a trail that traces him from Genesis to Revelation.

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