		<div class="wpcnt">
			<div class="wpa">
				<span class="wpa-about">Advertisements</span>
				<div class="u top_amp">
							<amp-ad width="300" height="265"
		 type="pubmine"
		 data-siteid="109460728"
		 data-section="1">
		</amp-ad>
				</div>
			</div>
		</div><div style="text-align:center;">Lenten Mediation Day 12</div>
<div style="text-align:center;"></div>
<h3 style="text-align:center;"><span id="en-NIV-15523" class="text Ps-102-1">Psalm 102<;sup class=&#8221;footnote&#8221; data-fn=&#8221;#fen-NIV-15523a&#8221; data-link=&#8221;[<a title="See footnote a" href="#fen-NIV-15523a">a</a>]&#8221;>;[<a title="See footnote a" href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Psalm%20102#fen-NIV-15523a">a</a>]</span></h3>
<h4 style="text-align:center;"><span class="text Ps-102-1">A prayer of an afflicted person who has grown weak and pours out a lament before the <span class="small-caps" style="font-variant:small-caps;">Lord</span>.</span></h4>
<div class="poetry" style="text-align:center;">
<div class="line"><span class="text Ps-102-1"><sup class="versenum">1 </sup>Hear my prayer, <span class="small-caps" style="font-variant:small-caps;">Lord</span>;</span><br />
<span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text Ps-102-1">let my cry for help come to you.</span></span><br />
<span id="en-NIV-15524" class="text Ps-102-2"><sup class="versenum">2 </sup>Do not hide your face from me</span><br />
<span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text Ps-102-2">when I am in distress.</span></span><br />
<span class="text Ps-102-2">Turn your ear to me;</span><br />
<span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text Ps-102-2">when I call, answer me quickly.</span></span></div>
</div>
<div class="poetry top-05" style="text-align:center;">
<div class="line"><span id="en-NIV-15525" class="text Ps-102-3"><sup class="versenum">3 </sup>For my days vanish like smoke;</span><br />
<span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text Ps-102-3">my bones burn like glowing embers.</span></span><br />
<span id="en-NIV-15526" class="text Ps-102-4"><sup class="versenum">4 </sup>My heart is blighted and withered like grass;</span><br />
<span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text Ps-102-4">I forget to eat my food.</span></span><br />
<span id="en-NIV-15527" class="text Ps-102-5"><sup class="versenum">5 </sup>In my distress I groan aloud</span><br />
<span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text Ps-102-5">and am reduced to skin and bones.</span></span><br />
<span id="en-NIV-15528" class="text Ps-102-6"><sup class="versenum">6 </sup>I am like a desert owl,</span><br />
<span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text Ps-102-6">like an owl among the ruins.</span></span><br />
<span id="en-NIV-15529" class="text Ps-102-7"><sup class="versenum">7 </sup>I lie awake; I have become</span><br />
<span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text Ps-102-7">like a bird alone on a roof.</span></span><br />
<span id="en-NIV-15530" class="text Ps-102-8"><sup class="versenum">8 </sup>All day long my enemies taunt me;</span><br />
<span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text Ps-102-8">those who rail against me use my name as a curse.</span></span><br />
<span id="en-NIV-15531" class="text Ps-102-9"><sup class="versenum">9 </sup>For I eat ashes as my food</span><br />
<span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text Ps-102-9">and mingle my drink with tears</span></span></div>
<div class="line"></div>
<p><a name="more"></a><br />
<span id="en-NIV-15532" class="text Ps-102-10"><sup class="versenum">10 </sup>because of your great wrath,</span><br />
<span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text Ps-102-10">for you have taken me up and thrown me aside.</span></span><br />
<span id="en-NIV-15533" class="text Ps-102-11"><sup class="versenum">11 </sup>My days are like the evening shadow;</span><br />
<span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text Ps-102-11">I wither away like grass.</span></span></p>
</div>
<div class="poetry top-05" style="text-align:center;">
<div class="line"><span id="en-NIV-15534" class="text Ps-102-12"><sup class="versenum">12 </sup>But you, <span class="small-caps" style="font-variant:small-caps;">Lord</span>, sit enthroned forever;</span><br />
<span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text Ps-102-12">your renown endures through all generations.</span></span><br />
<span id="en-NIV-15535" class="text Ps-102-13"><sup class="versenum">13 </sup>You will arise and have compassion on Zion,</span><br />
<span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text Ps-102-13">for it is time to show favor to her;</span></span><br />
<span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text Ps-102-13">the appointed time has come.</span></span><br />
<span id="en-NIV-15536" class="text Ps-102-14"><sup class="versenum">14 </sup>For her stones are dear to your servants;</span><br />
<span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text Ps-102-14">her very dust moves them to pity.</span></span><br />
<span id="en-NIV-15537" class="text Ps-102-15"><sup class="versenum">15 </sup>The nations will fear the name of the <span class="small-caps" style="font-variant:small-caps;">Lord</span>,</span><br />
<span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text Ps-102-15">all the kings of the earth will revere your glory.</span></span><br />
<span id="en-NIV-15538" class="text Ps-102-16"><sup class="versenum">16 </sup>For the <span class="small-caps" style="font-variant:small-caps;">Lord</span> will rebuild Zion</span><br />
<span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text Ps-102-16">and appear in his glory.</span></span><br />
<span id="en-NIV-15539" class="text Ps-102-17"><sup class="versenum">17 </sup>He will respond to the prayer of the destitute;</span><br />
<span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text Ps-102-17">he will not despise their plea.</span></span></div>
</div>
<div class="poetry top-05" style="text-align:center;">
<div class="line"><span id="en-NIV-15540" class="text Ps-102-18"><sup class="versenum">18 </sup>Let this be written for a future generation,</span><br />
<span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text Ps-102-18">that a people not yet created may praise the <span class="small-caps" style="font-variant:small-caps;">Lord</span>:</span></span><br />
<span id="en-NIV-15541" class="text Ps-102-19"><sup class="versenum">19 </sup>“The <span class="small-caps" style="font-variant:small-caps;">Lord</span> looked down from his sanctuary on high,</span><br />
<span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text Ps-102-19">from heaven he viewed the earth,</span></span><br />
<span id="en-NIV-15542" class="text Ps-102-20"><sup class="versenum">20 </sup>to hear the groans of the prisoners</span><br />
<span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text Ps-102-20">and release those condemned to death.”</span></span><br />
<span id="en-NIV-15543" class="text Ps-102-21"><sup class="versenum">21 </sup>So the name of the <span class="small-caps" style="font-variant:small-caps;">Lord</span> will be declared in Zion</span><br />
<span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text Ps-102-21">and his praise in Jerusalem</span></span><br />
<span id="en-NIV-15544" class="text Ps-102-22"><sup class="versenum">22 </sup>when the peoples and the kingdoms</span><br />
<span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text Ps-102-22">assemble to worship the <span class="small-caps" style="font-variant:small-caps;">Lord</span>.</span></span></div>
</div>
<div class="poetry top-05" style="text-align:center;">
<div class="line"><span id="en-NIV-15545" class="text Ps-102-23"><sup class="versenum">23 </sup>In the course of my life<;sup class=&#8221;footnote&#8221; data-fn=&#8221;#fen-NIV-15545b&#8221; data-link=&#8221;[<a title="See footnote b" href="#fen-NIV-15545b">b</a>]&#8221;>;[<a title="See footnote b" href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Psalm%20102#fen-NIV-15545b">b</a>] he broke my strength;</span><br />
<span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text Ps-102-23">he cut short my days.</span></span><br />
<span id="en-NIV-15546" class="text Ps-102-24"><sup class="versenum">24 </sup>So I said:</span><br />
<span class="text Ps-102-24">“Do not take me away, my God, in the midst of my days;</span><br />
<span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text Ps-102-24">your years go on through all generations.</span></span><br />
<span id="en-NIV-15547" class="text Ps-102-25"><sup class="versenum">25 </sup>In the beginning you laid the foundations of the earth,</span><br />
<span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text Ps-102-25">and the heavens are the work of your hands.</span></span><br />
<span id="en-NIV-15548" class="text Ps-102-26"><sup class="versenum">26 </sup>They will perish, but you remain;</span><br />
<span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text Ps-102-26">they will all wear out like a garment.</span></span><br />
<span class="text Ps-102-26">Like clothing you will change them</span><br />
<span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text Ps-102-26">and they will be discarded.</span></span><br />
<span id="en-NIV-15549" class="text Ps-102-27"><sup class="versenum">27 </sup>But you remain the same,</span><br />
<span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text Ps-102-27">and your years will never end.</span></span><br />
<span id="en-NIV-15550" class="text Ps-102-28"><sup class="versenum">28 </sup>The children of your servants will live in your presence;</span><br />
<span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text Ps-102-28">their descendants will be established before you.”A</span></span></div>
</div>

Lenten Meditation Day 12
