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Psalms 102

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Part of Book IV📖 Psalms introduction

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1Lord, hear my prayer! Listen to my plea! ✦ 2Don’t turn away from me in my time of distress. Bend down to listen, and answer me quickly when I call to you. ✦ 3For my days disappear like smoke, and my bones burn like red-hot coals. ✦ 4My heart is sick, withered like grass, and I have lost my appetite. ✦ 5Because of my groaning, I am reduced to skin and bones. ✦ 6I am like an owl in the desert, like a little owl in a far-off wilderness. ✦ 7I lie awake, lonely as a solitary bird on the roof. ✦ 8My enemies taunt me day after day. They mock and curse me. ✦ 9I eat ashes for food. My tears run down into my drink ✦ 10because of your anger and wrath. For you have picked me up and thrown me out. ✦ 11My life passes as swiftly as the evening shadows. I am withering away like grass. ✦ 12But you, O Lord, will sit on your throne forever. Your fame will endure to every generation. ✦ 13You will arise and have mercy on Jerusalem— and now is the time to pity her, now is the time you promised to help. ✦ 14For your people love every stone in her walls and cherish even the dust in her streets. ✦ 15Then the nations will tremble before the Lord. The kings of the earth will tremble before his glory. ✦ 16For the Lord will rebuild Jerusalem. He will appear in his glory. ✦ 17He will listen to the prayers of the destitute. He will not reject their pleas. ✦ 18Let this be recorded for future generations, so that a people not yet born will praise the Lord. ✦ 19Tell them the Lord looked down from his heavenly sanctuary. He looked down to earth from heaven ✦ 20to hear the groans of the prisoners, to release those condemned to die. ✦ 21And so the Lord’s fame will be celebrated in Zion, his praises in Jerusalem, ✦ 22when multitudes gather together and kingdoms come to worship the Lord. ✦ 23He broke my strength in midlife, cutting short my days. ✦ 24But I cried to him, “O my God, who lives forever, don’t take my life while I am so young! ✦ 25Long ago you laid the foundation of the earth and made the heavens with your hands. ✦ 26They will perish, but you remain forever; they will wear out like old clothing. You will change them like a garment and discard them. ✦ 27But you are always the same; you will live forever. ✦ 28The children of your people will live in security. Their children’s children will thrive in your presence.” ✦

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Scripture quotations are taken from the Holy Bible, New Living Translation, copyright © 1996, 2004, 2015 by Tyndale House Foundation. Used by permission of Tyndale House Publishers, Carol Stream, Illinois 60188. All rights reserved.

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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    A clear ~10-minute audio teaching for every one of the Bible's 1,189 chapters — the most systematic free way to study chapter by chapter.

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    Concise, theologically rich, and wonderfully accessible — the best place to start on the Psalms.

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    Free verse-by-verse audio through the entire Bible from the founder of Calvary Chapel.

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