1 'n Gebed van 'n ellendige as hy beswyk en sy klagte uitstort voor die aangesig van die HERE.
2 o HERE, hoor my gebed, en laat my hulpgeroep tot by U kom!
3 Verberg u aangesig nie vir my op die dag as ek in benoudheid is nie; neig u oor tot my; op die dag as ek roep, verhoor my gou!
4 Want my dae verdwyn soos rook en my gebeente gloei soos 'n vuurherd.
5 Platgeslaan soos die plante en verdor is my hart; want ek vergeet om my brood te eet.
6 Vanweë my harde gesug kleef my gebeente aan my vlees.
7 Ek is soos 'n pelikaan van die woestyn, ek het geword soos 'n uil op die puinhope.
8 Ek is slapeloos en het geword soos 'n eensame voël op die dak.
9 Die hele dag smaad my vyande my; die wat teen my raas, gebruik my naam as 'n vloek.
10 Want ek eet as soos brood en meng my drank met trane,
11 vanweë u grimmigheid en u toorn; want U het my opgehef en my weggewerp.
12 My dae is soos 'n skaduwee wat lank geword het, en ek, soos die plante verdor ek.
13 Maar U, o HERE, U bly tot in ewigheid, en u gedenknaam van geslag tot geslag.
14 U sal opstaan, U oor Sion ontferm; want dit is tyd om hom genadig te wees, want die bestemde tyd het gekom.
15 Want u knegte het sy klippe lief en het medelyde met sy puin.
16 Dan sal die heidene die Naam van die HERE vrees en al die konings van die aarde u heerlikheid;
17 omdat die HERE Sion opgebou het, in sy heerlikheid verskyn het,
18 Hom gewend het tot die gebed van wie ontbloot is, en hulle gebed nie verag het nie.
19 Dit sal vir die volgende geslag opgeskrywe word, en die volk wat geskape gaan word, sal die HERE loof;
20 omdat Hy van sy heilige hoogte neergesien het, die HERE uit die hemel op die aarde gelet het,
21 om die gekerm van die gevangene te hoor, om los te maak die kinders van die dood;
22 sodat hulle in Sion die Naam van die HERE kan vermeld en sy lof in Jerusalem,
23 as die volke almal saam vergader, ook die koninkryke om die HERE te dien.
24 Hy het my krag op die weg swak gemaak, my dae verkort.
25 My God, sê ek, neem my nie weg in die helfte van my dae nie -- u jare is van geslag tot geslag!
26 In die voortyd het U die aarde gegrondves, en die hemele is die werk van u hande.
27 Hulle sal vergaan, maar U sal bly; ja, hulle almal sal soos 'n kleed verslyt; U verwissel hulle soos 'n kledingstuk, en hulle verdwyn.
28 Maar U bly dieselfde, en u jare het geen einde nie. [ (Psalms 102:29) Die kinders van u knegte sal woon, en hulle nageslag sal voor u aangesig bly bestaan. ]
1 A Prayer of the man who is in trouble, when he is overcome, and puts his grief before the Lord.
2 \102:1\Give ear to my prayer, O Lord, and let my cry come to you.
3 \102:2\Let not your face be veiled from me in the day of my trouble; give ear to me, and let my cry be answered quickly.
4 \102:3\My days are wasted like smoke, and my bones are burned up as in a fire.
5 \102:4\My heart is broken; it has become dry and dead like grass, so that I give no thought to food.
6 \102:5\Because of the voice of my sorrow, my flesh is wasted to the bone.
7 \102:6\I am like a bird living by itself in the waste places; like the night-bird in a waste of sand.
8 \102:7\I keep watch like a bird by itself on the house-top.
9 \102:8\My haters say evil of me all day; those who are violent against me make use of my name as a curse.
10 \102:9\I have had dust for bread and my drink has been mixed with weeping:
11 \102:10\Because of your passion and your wrath, for I have been lifted up and then made low by you.
12 \102:11\My days are like a shade which is stretched out; I am dry like the grass.
13 \102:12\But you, O Lord, are eternal; and your name will never come to an end.
14 \102:13\You will again get up and have mercy on Zion: for the time has come for her to be comforted.
15 \102:14\For your servants take pleasure in her stones, looking with love on her dust.
16 \102:15\So the nations will give honour to the name of the Lord, and all the kings of the earth will be in fear of his glory:
17 \102:16\When the Lord has put up the walls of Zion, and has been been in his glory;
18 \102:17\When he has given ear to the prayer of the poor, and has not put his request on one side.
19 \102:18\This will be put in writing for the coming generation, and the people of the future will give praise to the Lord.
20 \102:19\For from his holy place the Lord has seen, looking down on the earth from heaven;
21 \102:20\Hearing the cry of the prisoner, making free those for whom death is ordered;
22 \102:21\So that they may give out the name of the Lord in Zion, and his praise in Jerusalem;
23 \102:22\When the peoples are come together, and the kingdoms, to give worship to the Lord.
24 \102:23\He has taken my strength from me in the way; he has made short my days.
25 \102:24\I will say, O my God, take me not away before my time; your years go on through all generations:
26 \102:25\In the past you put the earth on its base, and the heavens are the work of your hands.
27 \102:26\They will come to an end, but you will still go on; they all will become old like a coat, and like a robe they will be changed:
28 \102:27\But you are the unchanging One, and your years will have no end.
29 \102:28\The children of your servants will have a safe resting-place, and their seed will be ever before you.