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.
1 耶和华啊！ 求你听我的祷告； 愿我的呼求达到你那里。
2 我在患难的日子， 求你不要向我掩面； 我呼求的时候， 求你留心听我， 并且迅速应允我。
3 因为我的年日好像烟一般消散； 我的骨头烧焦像炉中的炭。
4 我的心受创伤， 好像草一般枯干， 以致我连饭也忘了吃。
5 因我唉哼的声音， 我就渐渐消瘦（"我就渐渐消瘦"原文作"我的骨头紧贴着肉"）。
6 我像旷野的鹈鹕， 又像废墟里的猫头鹰。
7 我躺在床上警醒着， 就像屋顶上孤单的麻雀。
8 我的仇敌终日辱骂我； 嘲弄我的指着我赌咒。
9 我吃炉灰像吃饭一样； 我所喝的与眼泪混和。
10 这都是因为你的愤恨和烈怒； 你把我举起来， 又把我摔下去。
11 我的年日好像日影偏斜， 我也好像草一般枯干。
12 耶和华啊！ 你却永远坐着为王， 你可记念的名也必存到万代。
13 你要起来， 怜悯锡安， 因为现在是恩待锡安的时候； 所定的日期已经到了。
14 因为你的众仆人喜爱它的石头， 爱惜它的尘土。
15 万国都必敬畏耶和华的名； 世上列王都敬畏你的荣耀。
16 因为耶和华必建造锡安， 在他自己的荣耀里显现。
17 他要垂顾困苦人的祷告， 必不藐视他们的祈求。
18 这些事要记下来， 传给后代， 好使将来出生的人民可以赞美耶和华。
19 因为耶和华从他至高的圣所里垂看， 从天上观看大地，
20 为要垂听被囚的人的叹息， 解救定了死罪的人；
21 使人在锡安传扬耶和华的名， 在耶路撒冷传扬赞美他的话。
22 那时， 万民和万国必一同聚集， 要事奉耶和华。
23 耶和华在我壮年的时候， 使我的力量衰弱， 缩短我的年日。
24 所以我说： "我的 神啊！ 求你不要使我中年去世， 你的年数万代无疆。
25 你起初立了地的根基； 天也是你手的工作。
26 天地都要毁灭， 你却长存； 天地都要像衣服一样渐渐残旧； 你要更换天地如同更换衣物一样， 天地就被更换。
27 只有你永不改变， 你的年数也没有穷尽。
28 你仆人的子孙必安然居住； 他们的后裔必在你面前坚立。"