Ps.102.1

GOD, listen! Listen to my prayer, listen to the pain in my cries.

Ps.102.1

Hear my prayer, O LORD; let my cry for help come to you.

Ps.102.1

Hear my prayer, O LORD, And let my cry come to You.

Ps.102.1

LORD, hear my prayer! Listen to my plea!

Ps.102.2

Don't turn your back on me just when I need you so desperately. Pay attention! This is a cry for help! And hurry--this can't wait!

Ps.102.2

Do not hide your face from me when I am in distress. Turn your ear to me; when I call, answer me quickly.

Ps.102.2

Do not hide Your face from me in the day of my trouble; Incline Your ear to me; In the day that I call, answer me speedily.

Ps.102.2

Don't turn away from me in my time of distress. Bend down your ear and answer me quickly when I call to you,

Ps.102.3

I'm wasting away to nothing, I'm burning up with fever.

Ps.102.3

For my days vanish like smoke; my bones burn like glowing embers.

Ps.102.3

For my days are consumed like smoke, And my bones are burned like a hearth.

Ps.102.3

for my days disappear like smoke, and my bones burn like red-hot coals.

Ps.102.4

I'm a ghost of my former self, half-consumed already by terminal illness.

Ps.102.4

My heart is blighted and withered like grass; I forget to eat my food.

Ps.102.4

My heart is stricken and withered like grass, So that I forget to eat my bread.

Ps.102.4

My heart is sick, withered like grass, and I have lost my appetite.

Ps.102.5

My jaws ache from gritting my teeth; I'm nothing but skin and bones.

Ps.102.5

Because of my loud groaning I am reduced to skin and bones.

Ps.102.5

Because of the sound of my groaning My bones cling to my skin.

Ps.102.5

Because of my groaning, I am reduced to skin and bones.

Ps.102.6

I'm like a buzzard in the desert, a crow perched on the rubble.

Ps.102.6

I am like a desert owl, like an owl among the ruins.

Ps.102.6

I am like a pelican of the wilderness; I am like an owl of the desert.

Ps.102.6

I am like an owl in the desert, like a lonely owl in a far-off wilderness.

Ps.102.7

Insomniac, I twitter away, mournful as a sparrow in the gutter.

Ps.102.7

I lie awake; I have become like a bird alone on a roof.

Ps.102.7

I lie awake, And am like a sparrow alone on the housetop.

Ps.102.7

I lie awake, lonely as a solitary bird on the roof.

Ps.102.8

All day long my enemies taunt me, while others just curse.

Ps.102.8

All day long my enemies taunt me; those who rail against me use my name as a curse.

Ps.102.8

My enemies reproach me all day long; Those who deride me swear an oath against me.

Ps.102.8

My enemies taunt me day after day. They mock and curse me.

Ps.102.9

They bring in meals--casseroles of ashes! I draw drink from a barrel of my tears.

Ps.102.9

For I eat ashes as my food and mingle my drink with tears

Ps.102.9

For I have eaten ashes like bread, And mingled my drink with weeping,

Ps.102.9

I eat ashes instead of my food. My tears run down into my drink

Ps.102.10

And all because of your furious anger; you swept me up and threw me out.

Ps.102.10

because of your great wrath, for you have taken me up and thrown me aside.

Ps.102.10

Because of Your indignation and Your wrath; For You have lifted me up and cast me away.

Ps.102.10

because of your anger and wrath. For you have picked me up and thrown me out.

Ps.102.11

There's nothing left of me--a withered weed, swept clean from the path.

Ps.102.11

My days are like the evening shadow; I wither away like grass.

Ps.102.11

My days are like a shadow that lengthens, And I wither away like grass.

Ps.102.11

My life passes as swiftly as the evening shadows. I am withering like grass.