Verse 26
Psalms 102:26
New Living Translation
26
They will perish, but you remain forever;<br>they will wear out like old clothing.<br>You will change them like a garment<br>and discard them.<br>
Original Language Text
hebrew
לְ֭/פָנִים הָ/אָ֣רֶץ יָסַ֑דְתָּ וּֽ/מַעֲשֵׂ֖ה יָדֶ֣י/ךָ שָׁמָֽיִם
English Translation
You established the earth in front of you, and the work of your hands is the heavens.
AI translation from hebrew via gpt-4o-mini
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Chapter 102 Context
1
LORD, hear my prayer!<br>Listen to my plea!<br>
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Don’t turn away from me<br>in my time of distress.<br>Bend down to listen,<br>and answer me quickly...
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For my days disappear like smoke,<br>and my bones burn like red-hot coals.<br>
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My heart is sick, withered like grass,<br>and I have lost my appetite.<br>
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Because of my groaning,<br>I am reduced to skin and bones.<br>
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I am like an owl in the desert,<br>like a little owl in a far-off wilderness.<br>
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I lie awake,<br>lonely as a solitary bird on the roof.<br>
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My enemies taunt me day after day.<br>They mock and curse me.<br>
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I eat ashes for food.<br>My tears run down into my drink<br>
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because of your anger and wrath.<br>For you have picked me up and thrown me out.<br>
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My life passes as swiftly as the evening shadows.<br>I am withering away like grass.<br>
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But you, O LORD, will sit on your throne forever.<br>Your fame will endure to every generation.<br>
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You will arise and have mercy on Jerusalem —<br>and now is the time to pity her,<br>now is the time...
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For your people love every stone in her walls<br>and cherish even the dust in her streets.<br>
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Then the nations will tremble before the LORD.<br>The kings of the earth will tremble before his glo...
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For the LORD will rebuild Jerusalem.<br>He will appear in his glory.<br>
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He will listen to the prayers of the destitute.<br>He will not reject their pleas.<br>
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Let this be recorded for future generations,<br>so that a people not yet born will praise the LORD.<...
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Tell them the LORD looked down<br>from his heavenly sanctuary.<br>He looked down to earth from heave...
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to hear the groans of the prisoners,<br>to release those condemned to die.<br>
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And so the LORD’s fame will be celebrated in Zion,<br>his praises in Jerusalem,<br>
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when multitudes gather together<br>and kingdoms come to worship the LORD.<br>
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He broke my strength in midlife,<br>cutting short my days.<br>
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But I cried to him, “O my God (Elohim), who lives forever,<br>don’t take my life while I am so young...
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Long ago you laid the foundation of the earth<br>and made the heavens with your hands.<br>
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They will perish, but you remain forever;<br>they will wear out like old clothing.<br>You will chang...
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But you are always the same;<br>you will live forever.<br>
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The children of your people<br>will live in security.<br>Their children’s children<br>will thrive in...
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