Psalms · Berean Standard Bible
Psalm 102 Berean Standard Bible
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1 A prayer of one who is afflicted, when he grows faint and pours out his lament before the LORD. Hear my prayer, O LORD; let my cry for help come before You.
1 Oración del pobre, cuando estuviere angustiado, y delante de Jehová derramare su lamento. JEHOVÁ, oye mi oración, y venga mi clamor á ti.
1 A Prayer of the afflicted, when he is overwhelmed and pours out his complaint before Yahweh. Hear my prayer, Yahweh! Let my cry come to you.
2 Do not hide Your face from me in my day of distress. Incline Your ear to me; answer me quickly when I call.
2 No escondas de mí tu rostro: en el día de mi angustia inclina á mí tu oído; el día que [te] invocare, apresúrate á responderme.
2 Don’t hide your face from me in the day of my distress. Turn your ear to me. Answer me quickly in the day when I call.
3 For my days vanish like smoke, and my bones burn like glowing embers.
3 Porque mis días se han consumido como humo; y mis huesos cual tizón están quemados.
3 For my days consume away like smoke. My bones are burned as a torch.
4 My heart is afflicted, and withered like grass; I even forget to eat my bread.
4 Mi corazón fué herido, y secóse como la hierba; por lo cual me olvidé de comer mi pan.
4 My heart is blighted like grass, and withered, for I forget to eat my bread.
5 Through my loud groaning my flesh clings to my bones.
5 Por la voz de mi gemido mis huesos se han pegado á mi carne.
5 By reason of the voice of my groaning, my bones stick to my skin.
6 I am like a desert owl, like an owl among the ruins.
6 Soy semejante al pelícano del desierto; soy como el buho de las soledades.
6 I am like a pelican of the wilderness. I have become as an owl of the waste places.
7 I lie awake; I am like a lone bird on a housetop.
7 Velo, y soy como el pájaro solitario sobre el tejado.
7 I watch, and have become like a sparrow that is alone on the housetop.
8 All day long my enemies taunt me; they ridicule me and curse me.
8 Cada día me afrentan mis enemigos; los que se enfurecen contra mí, hanse contra mí conjurado.
8 My enemies reproach me all day. Those who are mad at me use my name as a curse.
9 For I have eaten ashes like bread and mixed my drink with tears
9 Por lo que como la ceniza á manera de pan, y mi bebida mezclo con lloro,
9 For I have eaten ashes like bread, and mixed my drink with tears,
10 because of Your indignation and wrath, for You have picked me up and cast me aside.
10 A causa de tu enojo y de tu ira; pues me alzaste, y me has arrojado.
10 because of your indignation and your wrath; for you have taken me up and thrown me away.
11 My days are like lengthening shadows, and I wither away like grass.
11 Mis días son como la sombra que se va; y heme secado como la hierba.
11 My days are like a long shadow. I have withered like grass.
12 But You, O LORD, sit enthroned forever; Your renown endures to all generations.
12 Mas tú, Jehová, permanecerás para siempre, y tu memoria para generación y generación.
12 But you, Yahweh, will remain forever; your renown endures to all generations.
13 You will rise up and have compassion on Zion, for it is time to show her favor— the appointed time has come.
13 Tú levantándote, tendrás misericordia de Sión; porque el tiempo de tener misericordia de ella, porque el plazo es llegado.
13 You will arise and have mercy on Zion, for it is time to have pity on her. Yes, the set time has come.
14 For Your servants delight in her stones and take pity on her dust.
14 Porque tus siervos aman sus piedras, y del polvo de ella tienen compasión.
14 For your servants take pleasure in her stones, and have pity on her dust.
15 So the nations will fear the name of the LORD, and all the kings of the earth will fear Your glory.
15 Entonces temerán las gentes el nombre de Jehová, y todos los reyes de la tierra tu gloria;
15 So the nations will fear Yahweh’s name, all the kings of the earth your glory.
16 For the LORD will rebuild Zion; He has appeared in His glory.
16 Por cuanto Jehová habrá edificado á Sión, y en su gloria será visto;
16 For Yahweh has built up Zion. He has appeared in his glory.
17 He will turn toward the prayer of the destitute; He will not despise their prayer.
17 Habrá mirado á la oración de los solitarios, y no habrá desechado el ruego de ellos.
17 He has responded to the prayer of the destitute, and has not despised their prayer.
18 Let this be written for the generation to come, so that a people not yet created may praise the LORD.
18 Escribirse ha esto para la generación venidera: y el pueblo que se criará, alabará á JAH.
18 This will be written for the generation to come. A people which will be created will praise Yah,
19 For He looked down from the heights of His sanctuary; the LORD gazed out from heaven to earth
19 Porque miró de lo alto de su santuario; Jehová miró de los cielos á la tierra,
19 for he has looked down from the height of his sanctuary. From heaven, Yahweh saw the earth,
20 to hear a prisoner’s groaning, to release those condemned to death,
20 Para oir el gemido de los presos, para soltar á los sentenciados á muerte;
20 to hear the groans of the prisoner, to free those who are condemned to death,
21 that they may proclaim the name of the LORD in Zion and praise Him in Jerusalem,
21 Porque cuenten en Sión el nombre de Jehová, y su alabanza en Jerusalem,
21 that men may declare Yahweh’s name in Zion, and his praise in Jerusalem,
22 when peoples and kingdoms assemble to serve the LORD.
22 Cuando los pueblos se congregaren en uno, y los reinos, para servir á Jehová.
22 when the peoples are gathered together, the kingdoms, to serve Yahweh.
23 He has broken my strength on the way; He has cut short my days.
23 El afligió mi fuerza en el camino; acortó mis días.
23 He weakened my strength along the course. He shortened my days.
24 I say: “O my God, do not take me in the midst of my days! Your years go on through all generations.
24 Dije: Dios mío, no me cortes en el medio de mis días: por generación de generaciones son tus años.
24 I said, “My God, don’t take me away in the middle of my days. Your years are throughout all generations.
25 In the beginning You laid the foundations of the earth, and the heavens are the work of Your hands.
25 Tú fundaste la tierra antiguamente, y los cielos son obra de tus manos.
25 Of old, you laid the foundation of the earth. The heavens are the work of your hands.
26 They will perish, but You remain; they will all wear out like a garment. Like clothing You will change them, and they will be passed on.
26 Ellos perecerán, y tú permanecerás; y todos ellos como un vestido se envejecerán; como una ropa de vestir los mudarás, y serán mudados:
26 They will perish, but you will endure. Yes, all of them will wear out like a garment. You will change them like a cloak, and they will be changed.
27 But You remain the same, and Your years will never end.
27 Mas tú eres el mismo, y tus años no se acabarán.
27 But you are the same. Your years will have no end.
28 The children of Your servants will dwell securely, and their descendants will be established before You.”
28 Los hijos de tus siervos habitarán, y su simiente será afirmada delante de ti.
28 The children of your servants will continue. Their offspring will be established before you.”
Cross references (28)
Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info.
- 1 Psalm 18:6; Psalm 130:1–2; Exodus 2:23; Psalm 61:2; Psalm 142:2–3
- 2 Psalm 69:17; Psalm 27:9; Isaiah 8:17; Psalm 70:1; Psalm 88:2–18
- 3 James 4:14; Psalm 31:10; Lamentations 1:13; Job 30:30; Psalm 37:20
- 4 Isaiah 40:7; Psalm 37:2; Ezra 10:6; Acts 9:9; Matthew 26:37–38
- 5 Job 19:20; Proverbs 17:22; Lamentations 4:8; Psalm 32:3–4; Psalm 38:8–10
- 6 Zephaniah 2:14; Isaiah 38:14; Revelation 18:2; Isaiah 34:11–15; Job 30:29–30
- 7 Psalm 77:4; Lamentations 3:28–30; Mark 14:33–37; Psalm 130:6; Job 7:13–16
- 8 Acts 26:11; Romans 15:3; Psalm 69:9–10; Acts 23:12–35; Isaiah 65:15
- 9 Psalm 42:3; Job 3:24; Isaiah 44:20; Psalm 80:5; Lamentations 3:48–49
- 10 Psalm 38:3; 2 Corinthians 4:9; Lamentations 1:18; Psalm 90:7–9; Romans 3:19
- 11 Job 14:2; Psalm 109:23; Psalm 144:4; 1 Peter 1:24; James 4:14
- 12 Psalm 135:13; Lamentations 5:19; Exodus 3:15; Hebrews 13:8; Psalm 9:7
- 13 Galatians 4:4; Isaiah 40:2; Isaiah 60:1; Psalm 44:26; Psalm 69:35–36
- 14 Nehemiah 4:2; Ezra 1:5; Nehemiah 2:17; Nehemiah 1:3; Nehemiah 4:10
- 15 1 Kings 8:43; Psalm 138:4; Isaiah 60:3–22; Zechariah 8:20–23; Revelation 11:15
- 16 Isaiah 60:1–2; Jeremiah 33:7; Psalm 147:2; Isaiah 2:2–3; Jeremiah 31:4
- 17 Nehemiah 1:6; Psalm 22:24; Psalm 72:12; Psalm 9:18; Jeremiah 29:11–14
- 18 Romans 15:4; Psalm 22:30–31; Isaiah 43:21; Psalm 78:4–6; 1 Peter 2:9–10
- 19 Deuteronomy 26:15; Psalm 14:2; Hebrews 9:23–24; 1 Kings 8:43; 2 Chronicles 16:9
- 20 Psalm 79:11; Psalm 146:7; Isaiah 61:1–3; Exodus 3:7; Zechariah 9:9–12
- 21 Psalm 22:22; Isaiah 51:11; 1 Peter 2:9; Ephesians 3:21; Psalm 79:13
- 22 Zechariah 8:20–23; Matthew 24:14; Isaiah 49:22–23; Isaiah 60:3–22; Psalm 22:27
- 23 Revelation 11:2–19; Psalm 89:38–47; 2 Thessalonians 2:3–12; Job 21:21; 2 Timothy 3:1–17
- 24 Habakkuk 1:12; Psalm 39:13; Isaiah 38:10–22; Psalm 102:12; Revelation 1:8
- 25 Genesis 1:1; Exodus 20:11; Jeremiah 32:17; Hebrews 1:10–12; Hebrews 3:3–4
- 26 Isaiah 51:6; Matthew 24:35; Luke 21:33; Isaiah 34:4; Revelation 20:11
- 27 Hebrews 13:8; James 1:17; Malachi 3:6; Revelation 1:8; Psalm 90:4
- 28 Psalm 69:35–36; Psalm 45:16–17; Isaiah 66:22; Psalm 89:4; Psalm 90:16–17
Cross references: OpenBible.info (CC BY), drawn mainly from the public-domain Treasury of Scripture Knowledge. · Sources & licences
What the Fathers said
Passages from the Church Fathers that expound or quote this chapter, verbatim from the public-domain Schaff edition (19th-century English translations).
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“Commentary” is the opening of a homily or exposition on this chapter (John Chrysostom’s homilies, Augustine’s tractates, sermons and expositions of the Psalms). “Quotes” are sentences where the edition’s own footnotes identify a quotation of a verse here, kept only when the wording matches the verse. Only works whose authorship is not in doubt are used. Psalms follow the Hebrew/English numbering (Augustine numbers them as the Septuagint does: his Psalm 50 is Psalm 51 here).
In this Psalm, we ought to seek in the whole body of it what we find in the first verse: "Mercy and judgment will I sing unto Thee, O Lord" (ver. 1).
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 8 (1888)
The children of Thy servants shall continue, and their seed shall be established for ever;" pointing out plainly what things they are that pass away, and who it is that doth endure for ever--God, together with His servants.
So, then, by a humble piety we return to Thee; and thou purgest us from our evil customs, and art merciful unto the sins of those who confess unto Thee, and dost "hear the groaning of the prisoner," and dost loosen us from those fetters which we have forged for ourselves, if we lift not up against Thee the horns …
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 1 (1886)
On this account also one hath said, "My days have failed like smoke." He indeed was referring to their shortness of duration, and to their unsubstantial nature, but I would say that we should take what is said, not in this sense alone, but also as to their turbid character.
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 10 (1888)
Hear David the Prophet saying, Thou, Lord, in the beginning didst lay the foundations of the earth, and the heavens are the work of Thy hands; they shall perish, but Thou remainest.
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 2, vol. 7 (1894)