Psalm 102:13-21

Good News Translation

¹³You will rise and take pity on Zion;
    the time has come to have mercy on her;
    this is the right time.
¹⁴Your servants love her,
    even though she is destroyed;
they have pity on her,
    even though she is in ruins.

¹⁵The nations will fear the Lord;
    all the kings of the earth will fear his power.
¹⁶When the Lord rebuilds Zion,
    he will reveal his greatness.
¹⁷He will hear his forsaken people
    and listen to their prayer.

¹⁸Write down for the coming generation what the Lord has done,
    so that people not yet born will praise him.
¹⁹The Lord looked down from his holy place on high,
    he looked down from heaven to earth.
²⁰He heard the groans of prisoners
    and set free those who were condemned to die.
²¹And so his name will be proclaimed in Zion,
    and he will be praised in Jerusalem