Psalm 102 - Douy-Rheims Bible Challoner Revision

¹ All the day long my enemies reproached me: and they that praised me did swear against me.

² For I did eat ashes like bread, and mingled my drink with weeping.

³ 0 Because of thy anger and indignation: for having lifted me up thou hast thrown me down.

⁴ 1 My days have declined like a shadow, and I am withered like grass.

⁵ 2 But thou, O Lord, endurest for ever: and thy memorial to all generations.

⁶ 3 Thou shalt arise and have mercy on Sion: for it is time to have mercy on it, for the time is come.

⁷ 4 For the stones thereof have pleased thy servants: and they shall have pity on the earth thereof.

⁸ 5 And the Gentiles shall fear thy name, O Lord, and all the kings of the earth thy glory.

⁹ 6 For the Lord hath built up Sion: and he shall be seen in his glory.

¹⁰ 7 He hath had regard to the prayer of the humble: and he hath not despised their petition.

¹¹ 8 Let these things be written unto another generation: and the people that shall be created shall praise the Lord:

¹² 9 Because he hath looked forth from his high sanctuary: from heaven the Lord hath looked upon the earth.

¹³ 0 That he might hear the groans of them that are in fetters: that he might release the children of the slain:

¹⁴ 1 That they may declare the name of the Lord in Sion: and his praise in Jerusalem;

¹⁵ 2 When the people assemble together, and kings, to serve the Lord.

¹⁶ 3 He answered him in the way of his strength: Declare unto me the fewness of my days.

¹⁷ 4 Call me not away in the midst of my days: thy years are unto generation and generation.

¹⁸ 5 In the beginning, O Lord, thou foundedst the earth: end the heavens are the works of thy hands.

¹⁹ 6 They shall perish but thou remainest: and all of them shall grow old like a garment: And as a vesture thou shalt change them, and they shall be changed.

²⁰ 7 But thou art always the selfsame, and thy years shall not fail.

²¹ 8 The children of thy servants shall continue: and their seed shall be directed for ever.

²² For David himself. Bless the Lord, O my soul: and let all that is within me bless his holy name.

²³ Bless the Lord, O my soul, and never forget all he hath done for thee.

²⁴ Who forgiveth all thy iniquities: who healeth all thy diseases.

²⁵ Who redeemeth thy life from destruction: who crowneth thee with mercy and compassion.

²⁶ Who satisfieth thy desire with good things: thy youth shall be renewed like the eagle's.

²⁷ The Lord doth mercies, and judgment for all that suffer wrong.

²⁸ He hath made his ways known to Moses: his wills to the children of Israel.