Verse 7
Psalms 102:7
Bible in Basic English
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I keep watch like a bird by itself on the house-top.
Original Language Text
hebrew
דָּ֭מִיתִי לִ/קְאַ֣ת מִדְבָּ֑ר הָ֝יִ֗יתִי כְּ/כ֣וֹס חֳרָבֽוֹת
English Translation
I became like a desert; I was like a dry land.
AI translation from hebrew via gpt-4o-mini
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Chapter 102 Context
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<A Prayer of the man who is in trouble, when he is overcome, and puts his grief before the Lord.> Gi...
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Let not your face be veiled from me in the day of my trouble; give ear to me, and let my cry be answ...
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My days are wasted like smoke, and my bones are burned up as in a fire.
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My heart is broken; it has become dry and dead like grass, so that I give no thought to food.
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Because of the voice of my sorrow, my flesh is wasted to the bone.
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I am like a bird living by itself in the waste places; like the night-bird in a waste of sand.
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I keep watch like a bird by itself on the house-top.
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My haters say evil of me all day; those who are violent against me make use of my name as a curse.
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I have had dust for bread and my drink has been mixed with weeping:
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Because of your passion and your wrath, for I have been lifted up and then made low by you.
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My days are like a shade which is stretched out; I am dry like the grass.
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But you, O Lord, are eternal; and your name will never come to an end.
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You will again get up and have mercy on Zion: for the time has come for her to be comforted.
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For your servants take pleasure in her stones, looking with love on her dust.
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So the nations will give honour to the name of the Lord, and all the kings of the earth will be in f...
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When the Lord has put up the walls of Zion, and has been been in his glory;
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When he has given ear to the prayer of the poor, and has not put his request on one side.
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This will be put in writing for the coming generation, and the people of the future will give praise...
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For from his holy place the Lord has seen, looking down on the earth from heaven;
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Hearing the cry of the prisoner, making free those for whom death is ordered;
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So that they may give out the name of the Lord in Zion, and his praise in Jerusalem;
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When the peoples are come together, and the kingdoms, to give worship to the Lord.
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He has taken my strength from me in the way; he has made short my days.
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I will say, O my God (Elohim), take me not away before my time; your years go on through all generat...
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In the past you put the earth on its base, and the heavens are the work of your hands.
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They will come to an end, but you will still go on; they all will become old like a coat, and like a...
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But you are the unchanging One, and your years will have no end.
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The children of your servants will have a safe resting-place, and their seed will be ever before you...
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