Psalm 102

LOrd, hearken to my pray'r, and let
my cry come up to thee,
In time of trouble do not hide
thy face away from me.
Incline thy gracious ear to me,
answer me in the day
When I do call, for like the smoak
way days consume away.

My bones like to an hearth are burnt,
mine heart is withered
Like grasse, and smitten, that I do
forget to eat my bread.
By the voice of my groanings, all
my bones cleave to my skin,
And I like to a Pellican,
in wildernesse have been.

Or like an Owl in desart, quite
cast out of men and gone,
I watch, and as a sparrow am,
on the house-top alone.
My bitter enemies all the day
reproaches cast on me,
And being mad at me with rage,
against me sworn they be.

Ashes of mourning I do eat
as bread continually,
And daily mix my drink with tears,
when I weep bitterly.
Thy wrath and indignation
did cause this grief and pain,
For thou hast lift me up on high,
and cast me down again.

The days of this short life of mine,
are like the fleeting shade,
And I am withered like the grasse
that soon away doth fade.
But though I fail it, thou, O Lord,
for ever shalt endure,
Thy Covenant continues still
unto all ages sure.

Thou wilt arise, and mercy now
to Zion thou wilt show,
For now 'tis time to favour her,
yea, the set time is now.
For all thy servants in her stones,
though in rude heaps they lie,
Do pleasure take, her very dust
is precious in their eye.

The Second Part.

Then shall the Heathen people fear
the Lords most holy name,
The Kings on earth shall reverence
thy glory and thy fame,
When God shall build up Zion, he
in glory shall appear,
Hee'll not the lowlies sute despise,
he will their prayer hear.

This for succeeding ages shall
be kept upon record,
The people that be thus restor'd,
shall blesse and praise the Lord.
For he hath lookt down from the height
of his own sanctuary,
The Lord with favour th'earth beholds
from out of Heaven high;

The groanings still to hear of those
that doe in prison lie,
To set at liberty such as
appointed are to die.
That they in Zion may declare
the Lords most holy name,
And in Jerusalem set forth
the glory of the same.

When people from all Countries shall
meet there with one accord,
And all the Kingdomes shall submit
to serve the highest Lord.
My strength he weakned in the way,
and shortened my day.
I said in the midst of my days,
Lord, take me not away.

Thy yeers throughout all ages are,
ere time began, thou laidst
The Earths foundations, and the Heav'ns
with thine own hands thou mad'st.
Thou shalt endure and still subsist,
but they shall wax away,
And like a garment shall wax old,
and by degrees decay.

Thou as a garment shalt them change,
and they shall changed be,
But thou dost still abide the same,
thy years no end shall see.
The children of thy servants shall
continually endure,
And in thy sight their happy seed
shall be establisht sure.