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Psalm 102:1-3
Contemporary English Version

(A prayer for someone who hurts and needs to ask the Lord for help.)

A Prayer in Time of Trouble

1 I pray to you, Lord!
    Please listen.
2 Don't hide from me
    in my time of trouble.
Pay attention to my prayer
    and quickly give an answer.

3 My days disappear like smoke,
and my bones are burning
    as though in a furnace.

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Psalm 102:1-3
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Psalm 102[a]

A prayer of an afflicted person who has grown weak and pours out a lament before the Lord.

1 Hear my prayer,(A) Lord;
    let my cry for help(B) come to you.
2 Do not hide your face(C) from me
    when I am in distress.
Turn your ear(D) to me;
    when I call, answer me quickly.

3 For my days vanish like smoke;(E)
    my bones(F) burn like glowing embers.

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 102:1 In Hebrew texts 102:1-28 is numbered 102:2-29.
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