Psalm 102:12-28

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised Catholic Edition

¹² But you, O Lord, are enthroned for ever;
    your name endures to all generations.
¹³ You will rise up and have compassion on Zion,
    for it is time to favour it;
    the appointed time has come.
¹⁴ For your servants hold its stones dear,
    and have pity on its dust.
¹⁵ The nations will fear the name of the Lord,
    and all the kings of the earth your glory.
¹⁶ For the Lord will build up Zion;
    he will appear in his glory.
¹⁷ He will regard the prayer of the destitute,
    and will not despise their prayer.

¹⁸ Let this be recorded for a generation to come,
    so that a people yet unborn may praise the Lord:
¹⁹ that he looked down from his holy height,
    from heaven the Lord looked at the earth,
²⁰ to hear the groans of the prisoners,
    to set free those who were doomed to die;
²¹ so that the name of the Lord may be declared in Zion,
    and his praise in Jerusalem,
²² when peoples gather together,
    and kingdoms, to worship the Lord.

²³ He has broken my strength in mid-course;
    he has shortened my days.
²⁴ ‘O my God,’ I say, ‘do not take me away
    at the mid-point of my life,
you whose years endure
    throughout all generations.’

²⁵ Long ago you laid the foundation of the earth,
    and the heavens are the work of your hands.
²⁶ They will perish, but you endure;
    they will all wear out like a garment.
You change them like clothing, and they pass away;
²⁷     but you are the same, and your years have no end.
²⁸ The children of your servants shall live secure;
    their offspring shall be established in your presence.