Tehillim 102

²Hear my tefillah, Hashem ,

and let my cry for help come unto Thee.

³Hide not Thy face from me in the yom tzar (day of distress) ;

incline Thine ear unto me;

in the yom when I call, answer me speedily.

⁴For my yamim are consumed like ashan (smoke) ,

and my atzmot burn like a furnace.

⁵My lev is struck, and withered like esev;

so that I forget to eat my lechem.

⁶By reason of the voice of my groaning

my atzmot have deveykus to my basar.

⁷I am like a bird of the midbar;

I am like an owl of the desert.

⁸I keep watch, and am like a tzippor (bird)

alone upon the gag (housetop, roof) .

⁹Mine oyevim (enemies) reproach me kol hayom;

and they that revile me curse by me.

¹⁰For I have eaten ashes like lechem,

and mingled my drink with tears.

¹¹Because of Thine za'am (indignation) and Thy ketsef (wrath, anger) ;

for Thou hast lifted me up, and cast me down.

¹²My days are like a tzel (shadow) that lengtheneth;

and I am withered like esev (grass) .

¹³But Thou, Hashem , shall endure l'olam;

and Thy memory unto dor vador.

¹⁴Thou shalt arise, and have mercy upon Tziyon;

for the time to favor her,

the mo'ed (set time, appointed time) has come.

¹⁵For Thy avadim cherish her avanim (stones) ,

and pity her aphar.

¹⁶So the Goyim shall fear the Shem Hashem ,

and all the melachim of ha'aretz will revere Thy glory.

¹⁷When Hashem shall build up Tziyon,

He shall appear in His Kavod.

¹⁸He will regard the tefillah of the destitute,

and not despise their tefillah.

¹⁹This shall be written for a dor acharon (future generation) ;

and the people which shall be created shall praise Hashem .

²⁰For He hath looked down from the height of His Kodesh;

from Shomayim did Hashem behold Eretz;

²¹To hear the groaning of the asir (prisoner) ;

to release those that are bnei temutah (men death);

²²To declare the Shem Hashem in Tziyon,

and His tehillah (praise) in Yerushalayim;

²³When the peoples are gathered together in assembly,

and the mamlachot (kingdoms) , to serve Hashem .

²⁴He bowed down my ko'ach in the derech;

He cut short my yamim.

²⁵I said, O my G-d,

take me not away in the midst of my yamim;

Thy years are dor dorim (throughout all generations) .

²⁶Of old hast Thou laid the foundation of ha'aretz;

and Shomayim is the ma'aseh (work) of Thy hands.

²⁷They shall perish, but Thou shalt remain;

and all of them shall wear out like a beged (garment) ;

like a vesture shalt Thou change them, and they shall be changed;

²⁸But Thou art the same,

and Thy shanot (years) shall have no end.

²⁹The children of Thy avadim shall dwell,

and their zera shall be established before Thee.