WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:01.680 Psalm 102. 00:03.260 --> 00:08.220 A prayer of the afflicted when he is overwhelmed and poureth out his complaint 00:08.220 --> 00:09.220 before the Lord. 00:30.000 --> 00:34.300 My heart is smitten and withered like grass, so that I forget to eat my bread. 00:35.360 --> 00:38.880 By reason of the voice of my groaning my bones cleave to my skin. 00:39.640 --> 00:41.360 I am like a pelican of the wilderness. 00:42.220 --> 00:43.800 I am like an owl of the desert. 00:44.380 --> 00:47.880 I watch and am as a sparrow alone upon the housetop. 00:48.900 --> 00:53.640 Mine enemies reproach me all the day, and they that are mad against me are sworn 00:53.640 --> 00:54.420 against me. 00:55.320 --> 00:59.020 For I have eaten ashes like bread and mingled my drink with weeping. 00:59.020 --> 01:04.200 Because of thine indignation and thy wrath, for thou hast lifted me up and cast 01:04.200 --> 01:04.720 me down. 01:05.700 --> 01:09.460 My days are like a shadow that declineth, and I am withered like grass. 01:10.500 --> 01:15.460 But thou, O Lord, shalt endure forever, and thy remembrance unto all generations. 01:16.820 --> 01:19.200 Thou shalt arise and have mercy upon Zion. 01:19.980 --> 01:23.220 For the time to favor her, yea, the set time, is come. 01:24.120 --> 01:28.300 For thy servants take pleasure in her stones, and favor the dust thereof. 01:29.060 --> 01:33.240 So the heathen shall fear the name of the Lord, and all the kings of the earth, 01:33.680 --> 01:34.220 thy glory. 01:35.140 --> 01:38.380 When the Lord shall build up Zion, he shall appear in his glory. 01:39.280 --> 01:42.660 He will regard the prayer of the destitute, and not despise their prayer. 01:43.560 --> 01:45.720 This shall be written for the generation to come. 01:46.260 --> 01:49.300 And the people which shall be created shall praise the Lord. 01:49.840 --> 01:52.280 For he hath looked down from the height of his sanctuary. 01:53.140 --> 01:55.120 From heaven did the Lord behold the earth. 01:55.120 --> 01:59.860 To hear the groaning of the prisoner, to loose those that are appointed to 01:59.860 --> 02:00.180 death. 02:00.860 --> 02:04.660 To declare the name of the Lord in Zion, and his praise in Jerusalem. 02:05.260 --> 02:08.780 When the people are gathered together, and the kingdoms, to serve the Lord. 02:09.740 --> 02:13.640 He weakened my strength in the way, he shortened my days. 02:14.480 --> 02:19.140 I said, O my God, take me not away in the midst of my days. 02:19.940 --> 02:21.820 Thy years are throughout all generations. 02:22.580 --> 02:27.180 Of old hast thou laid the foundation of the earth, and the heavens are the work of 02:27.180 --> 02:27.840 thy hands. 02:28.640 --> 02:31.160 They shall perish, but thou shalt endure. 02:31.700 --> 02:34.300 Yea, all of them shall wax old like a garment. 02:34.960 --> 02:38.580 As a vesture shalt thou change them, and they shall be changed. 02:39.540 --> 02:43.380 But thou art the same, and thy years shall have no end. 02:44.100 --> 02:48.500 The children of thy servants shall continue, and their seed shall be 02:48.500 --> 02:49.940 established before thee.