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            <div class="label">102</div><div class="d"><span class="content">A Prayer of the afflicted, when he is overwhelmed, and poureth out his complaint before the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">LORD</span></span><span class="content">.</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.102.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Hear my prayer, O </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">LORD</span></span><span class="content">,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.102.1"><span class="content">And let my cry come unto thee.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.102.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.102.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">Hide not thy face from me in the day </span><span class="add"><span class="content">when</span></span><span class="content"> I am in trouble;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.102.2"><span class="content">Incline thine ear unto me: In the day </span><span class="add"><span class="content">when</span></span><span class="content"> I call answer me speedily.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.102.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.102.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">For my days are consumed like smoke,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.102.3"><span class="content">And my bones are burned as an hearth.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.102.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.102.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">My heart is smitten, and withered like grass;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.102.4"><span class="content">So that I forget to eat my bread.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.102.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.102.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">By reason of the voice of my groaning</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.102.5"><span class="content">My bones cleave to my skin.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.102.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.102.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">I am like a pelican of the wilderness:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.102.6"><span class="content">I am like an owl of the desert.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.102.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.102.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">I watch, and am as a sparrow</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.102.7"><span class="content">Alone upon the house top.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.102.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.102.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">Mine enemies reproach me all the day;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.102.8"><span class="content">  </span><span class="add"><span class="content">And</span></span><span class="content"> they that are mad against me are sworn against me.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.102.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.102.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">For I have eaten ashes like bread,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.102.9"><span class="content">And mingled my drink with weeping,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.102.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.102.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">Because of thine indignation and thy wrath:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.102.10"><span class="content">For thou hast lifted me up, and cast me down.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.102.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.102.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">My days </span><span class="add"><span class="content">are</span></span><span class="content"> like a shadow that declineth;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.102.11"><span class="content">And I am withered like grass.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.102.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.102.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">But thou, O </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">LORD</span></span><span class="content">, shalt endure for ever;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.102.12"><span class="content">And thy remembrance unto all generations.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.102.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PSA.102.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">Thou shalt arise, </span><span class="add"><span class="content">and</span></span><span class="content"> have mercy upon Zion:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PSA.102.13"><span class="content">For the time to favour her, yea, the set time, is come.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PSA.102.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PSA.102.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">For thy servants take pleasure in her stones,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PSA.102.14"><span class="content">And favour the dust thereof.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PSA.102.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PSA.102.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">So the heathen shall fear the name of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">LORD</span></span><span class="content">,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PSA.102.15"><span class="content">And all the kings of the earth thy glory.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PSA.102.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PSA.102.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">When the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">LORD</span></span><span class="content"> shall build up Zion,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PSA.102.16"><span class="content">He shall appear in his glory.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PSA.102.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PSA.102.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">He will regard the prayer of the destitute,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PSA.102.17"><span class="content">And not despise their prayer.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PSA.102.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PSA.102.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">This shall be written for the generation to come:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PSA.102.18"><span class="content">And the people which shall be created shall praise the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">LORD</span></span><span class="content">.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PSA.102.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PSA.102.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">For he hath looked down from the height of his sanctuary;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PSA.102.19"><span class="content">From heaven did the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">LORD</span></span><span class="content"> behold the earth;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PSA.102.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="PSA.102.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">To hear the groaning of the prisoner;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="PSA.102.20"><span class="content">To loose those that are appointed to death;</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="PSA.102.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="PSA.102.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">To declare the name of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">LORD</span></span><span class="content"> in Zion,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="PSA.102.21"><span class="content">And his praise in Jerusalem;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="PSA.102.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="PSA.102.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">When the people are gathered together,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="PSA.102.22"><span class="content">And the kingdoms, to serve the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">LORD</span></span><span class="content">.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="PSA.102.22"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="PSA.102.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">He weakened my strength in the way;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="PSA.102.23"><span class="content">He shortened my days.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="PSA.102.23"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="PSA.102.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">I said, O my God, take me not away in the midst of my days:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="PSA.102.24"><span class="content">Thy years </span><span class="add"><span class="content">are</span></span><span class="content"> throughout all generations.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="PSA.102.24"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="PSA.102.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">Of old hast thou laid the foundation of the earth:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="PSA.102.25"><span class="content">And the heavens </span><span class="add"><span class="content">are</span></span><span class="content"> the work of thy hands.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="PSA.102.25"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="PSA.102.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">They shall perish, but thou shalt endure:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="PSA.102.26"><span class="content">Yea, all of them shall wax old like a garment;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="PSA.102.26"><span class="content">As a vesture shalt thou change them, and they shall be changed:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="PSA.102.26"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="PSA.102.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">But thou </span><span class="add"><span class="content">art</span></span><span class="content"> the same, and thy years shall have no end.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="PSA.102.27"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="PSA.102.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">The children of thy servants shall continue,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="PSA.102.28"><span class="content">And their seed shall be established before thee.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div>
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