Глава 102

  • 0. A prayer of the afflicted,<br>
    when hee shall be in distresse,<br>
    and poure foorth his meditation before the Lorde.
  • 1. O Lorde, heare my prayer, and let my crye come vnto thee.
  • 2. Hide not thy face from me in the time of my trouble: incline thine eares vnto me: when I call, make haste to heare me.
  • 3. For my dayes are consumed like smoke, and my bones are burnt like an herthe.
  • 4. Mine heart is smitten and withereth like grasse, because I forgate to eate my bread.
  • 5. For the voyce of my groning my bones doe cleaue to my skinne.
  • 6. I am like a pelicane of the wildernesse: I am like an owle of the deserts.
  • 7. I watch and am as a sparrowe alone vpon the house top.
  • 8. Mine enemies reuile me dayly, and they that rage against me, haue sworne against me.
  • 9. Surely I haue eaten asshes as bread, and mingled my drinke with weeping,
  • 10. Because of thine indignation and thy wrath: for thou hast heaued me vp, and cast me downe.
  • 11. My dayes are like a shadowe that fadeth, and I am withered like grasse.
  • 12. But thou, O Lorde, doest remaine for euer, and thy remembrance from generation to generation.
  • 13. Thou wilt arise &amp; haue mercy vpon Zion: for the time to haue mercie thereon, for the appointed time is come.
  • 14. For thy seruants delite in the stones thereof, and haue pitie on the dust thereof.
  • 15. Then the heathen shall feare the Name of the Lord, and all the Kings of the earth thy glory,
  • 16. When the Lorde shall build vp Zion, and shall appeare in his glory,
  • 17. And shall turne vnto the prayer of the desolate, and not despise their prayer.
  • 18. This shall be written for the generation to come: and the people, which shalbe created, shall prayse the Lord.
  • 19. For he hath looked downe from the height of his Sanctuarie: out of the heauen did the Lord beholde the earth,
  • 20. That he might heare the mourning of the prisoner, and deliuer the children of death:
  • 21. That they may declare the Name of the Lord in Zion, and his prayse in Ierusalem,
  • 22. When the people shalbe gathered together, and the kingdomes to serue the Lorde.
  • 23. He abated my strength in the way, and shortened my dayes.
  • 24. And I sayd, O my God, take me not away in the middes of my dayes: thy yeeres endure from generation to generation.
  • 25. Thou hast aforetime layde the foundation of the earth, and the heauens are the worke of thine hands.
  • 26. They shall perish, but thou shalt endure: euen they all shall waxe olde as doeth a garment: as a vesture shalt thou change them, and they shall be changed.
  • 27. But thou art the same, and thy yeeres shall not fayle.
  • 28. The children of thy seruants shall continue, and their seede shall stand fast in thy sight.