{Psa 98-100, 102, 104 ^**}

    ^102:1 Hear my prayer, O Jehovah and let my cry come to you. ^102:2 Do not hide your face from me in the day of my distress. Incline your ear to me. Answer me speedily in the day when I call.

    ^102:3 Because my days consume away like smoke and my bones are burned as a firebrand. ^102:4 My heart is struck like grass and withered, because I forget to eat my bread. ^102:5 Because of the voice of my groaning my bones cling to my flesh.

    ^102:6 I am like a pelican of the wilderness. I have become as an owl of the waste places. ^102:7 I watch and have become like a sparrow that is alone upon the house-top.

    ^102:8 My enemies reproach me all the day. Those who are mad against me curse by me. ^102:9 Because I have eaten ashes like bread and mingled my drink with weeping, ^102:10 because of your indignation and your wrath. Because you have taken me up and cast me away.

    ^102:11 My days are like a shadow that declines and I am withered like grass.

    ^102:12 But you, O Jehovah, will abide everlasting and your memorial to all generations. ^102:13 You will arise and have mercy upon Zion, because it is time to have pity upon her, yes, the set time has come. ^102:14 Because your servants take pleasure in her stones and have pity upon her dust.

    ^102:15 So the nations will fear the name of Jehovah and all the kings of the earth your glory.^102:16 Because Jehovah has built up Zion. He has appeared in his glory.

    ^102:17 He has regarded the prayer of the destitute and has not despised their prayer.

    ^102:18 This will be written for the generation to come. And a people which will be created will praise Jehovah.

    ^102:19 Because he has looked down from the height of his sanctuary. From heaven Jehovah beheld the earth, ^102:20 to hear the sighing of the prisoner, to loose those who are appointed to death, ^102:21 that men may declare the name of Jehovah in Zion and his praise in Jerusalem, ^102:22 when the peoples are gathered together and the kingdoms to serve Jehovah.

    ^102:23 He humbled my strength in the way. He shortened my days. ^102:24 I said, O my God, do not take me away in the midst of my days. Your years are throughout all generations.

    ^102:25 You laid of old the foundation of the earth and the heavens are the work of your hands. ^102:26 They will perish, but you will endure. Yes, all of them will grow old like a garment. As a raiment you will change them and they will be changed, ^102:27 but you are the same and your years will have no end.

    ^102:28 The sons of your servants will continue and their seed will be established before you.