Psalm 102:1-11

Do Not Hide Your Face from Me

A Prayer of one afflicted, when he is faint and pours out his complaint before the Lord.

1
z Hear my prayer, O Lord;
let my cry a come to you!
 2 b Do not hide your face from me
in c the day of my distress!
d Incline your ear to me;
e answer me speedily f in the day when I call!

3 For my days g pass away like smoke,
and my h bones burn like a furnace.
 4 My heart is i struck down like grass and j has withered;
I k forget to eat my bread.
 5 Because of my loud groaning
my l bones cling to my flesh.
 6 I am like m a desert owl of the wilderness,
like an owl 1 of the waste places;
 7 I n lie awake;
I am like a lonely sparrow on the housetop.
 8 All the day my enemies taunt me;
those who o deride me p use my name for a curse.
 9 For I eat ashes like bread
and q mingle tears with my drink,
 10 because of your indignation and anger;
for you have r taken me up and s thrown me down.
 11 My days are like t an evening shadow;
I j wither away like grass.

  1. Cross References
    Psalms 61:2
    From the end of the earth I call to you when my heart is faint. Lead me to the rock that is higher than I.
  2. Cross References
    Psalms 142:2
    I pour out my complaint before him; I tell my trouble before him.
  3. Cross References
    Psalms 39:12
    Hear my prayer, O Lord, and give ear to my cry; hold not your peace at my tears! For I am a sojourner with you, a guest, like all my fathers.
  4. Cross References
    Psalms 18:6
    In my distress I called upon the Lord ; to my God I cried for help. From his temple he heard my voice, and my cry to him reached his ears.
    Exodus 2:23
    During those many days the king of Egypt died, and the people of Israel groaned because of their slavery and cried out for help. Their cry for rescue from slavery came up to God.
    1 Samuel 9:16
    "Tomorrow about this time I will send to you a man from the land of Benjamin, and you shall anoint him to be prince over my people Israel. He shall save my people from the hand of the Philistines. For I have seen my people, because their cry has come to me."
  5. Cross References
    Psalms 27:9
    Hide not your face from me. Turn not your servant away in anger, O you who have been my help. Cast me not off; forsake me not, O God of my salvation!
  6. Cross References
    Psalms 18:6
    In my distress I called upon the Lord ; to my God I cried for help. From his temple he heard my voice, and my cry to him reached his ears.
  7. Cross References
    Psalms 31:2
    Incline your ear to me; rescue me speedily! Be a rock of refuge for me, a strong fortress to save me!
  8. Cross References
    Psalms 69:17
    Hide not your face from your servant; for I am in distress; make haste to answer me.
  9. Cross References
    Psalms 56:9
    Then my enemies will turn back in the day when I call. This I know, that God is for me.
  10. Cross References
    James 4:14
    Yet you do not know what tomorrow will bring. What is your life? For you are a mist that appears for a little time and then vanishes.
    Psalms 37:20
    But the wicked will perish; the enemies of the Lord are like the glory of the pastures; they vanish - like smoke they vanish away.
  11. Cross References
    Job 30:30
    My skin turns black and falls from me, and my bones burn with heat.
    Lamentations 1:13
    From on high he sent fire; into my bones he made it descend; he spread a net for my feet; he turned me back; he has left me stunned, faint all the day long.
    Psalms 31:10
    For my life is spent with sorrow, and my years with sighing; my strength fails because of my iniquity, and my bones waste away.
  12. Cross References
    Psalms 121:6
    The sun shall not strike you by day, nor the moon by night.
  13. Cross References
    Psalms 37:2
    For they will soon fade like the grass and wither like the green herb.
    Isaiah 40:7
    The grass withers, the flower fades when the breath of the Lord blows on it; surely the people are grass.
    James 1:10 - 11
    And the rich in his humiliation, because like a flower of the grass he will pass away.
  14. Cross References
    1 Samuel 1:7
    So it went on year by year. As often as she went up to the house of the Lord, she used to provoke her. Therefore Hannah wept and would not eat.
    2 Samuel 12:17
    And the elders of his house stood beside him, to raise him from the ground, but he would not, nor did he eat food with them.
    1 Kings 21:4
    And Ahab went into his house vexed and sullen because of what Naboth the Jezreelite had said to him, for he had said, "I will not give you the inheritance of my fathers." And he lay down on his bed and turned away his face and would eat no food.
    Job 33:20
    So that his life loathes bread, and his appetite the choicest food.
  15. Cross References
    Job 19:20
    My bones stick to my skin and to my flesh, and I have escaped by the skin of my teeth.
  16. Cross References
    Isaiah 34:11
    But the hawk and the porcupine shall possess it, the owl and the raven shall dwell in it. He shall stretch the line of confusion over it, and the plumb line of emptiness.
    Zephaniah 2:14
    Herds shall lie down in her midst, all kinds of beasts; even the owl and the hedgehog shall lodge in her capitals; a voice shall hoot in the window; devastation will be on the threshold; for her cedar work will be laid bare.
    Job 30:29
    I am a brother of jackals and a companion of ostriches.
  17. Cross References
    Psalms 77:4
    You hold my eyelids open; I am so troubled that I cannot speak.
  18. Cross References
    Acts 26:11
    And I punished them often in all the synagogues and tried to make them blaspheme, and in raging fury against them I persecuted them even to foreign cities.
  19. Cross References
    Isaiah 65:15
    You shall leave your name to my chosen for a curse, and the Lord God will put you to death, but his servants he will call by another name.
    Jeremiah 29:22
    Because of them this curse shall be used by all the exiles from Judah in Babylon: "The Lord make you like Zedekiah and Ahab, whom the king of Babylon roasted in the fire.
  20. Cross References
    Psalms 42:3
    My tears have been my food day and night, while they say to me all the day long, "Where is your God?
  21. Cross References
    Ezekiel 3:12
    Then the Spirit lifted me up, and I heard behind me the voice of a great earthquake: "Blessed be the glory of the Lord from its place!
    Ezekiel 3:14
    The Spirit lifted me up and took me away, and I went in bitterness in the heat of my spirit, the hand of the Lord being strong upon me.
  22. Cross References
    Psalms 51:11
    Cast me not away from your presence, and take not your Holy Spirit from me.
  23. Cross References
    Psalms 109:23
    I am gone like a shadow at evening; I am shaken off like a locust.
    Psalms 144:4
    Man is like a breath; his days are like a passing shadow.
    Job 8:9
    For we are but of yesterday and know nothing, for our days on earth are a shadow.
  24. Cross References
    Psalms 102:4
    My heart is struck down like grass and has withered; I forget to eat my bread.
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