[1]The words of Agur son of Jakeh. An oracle.
Thus says the man: I am weary, O God,
I am weary, O God. How can I prevail?
[2]Surely I am too stupid to be human;
I do not have human understanding.
[3]I have not learned wisdom,
nor have I knowledge of the holy ones.
[4]Who has ascended to heaven and come down?
Who has gathered the wind in the hollow of the hand?
Who has wrapped up the waters in a garment?
Who has established all the ends of the earth?
What is the person's name?
And what is the name of the person's child?
Surely you know!
[24]Four things on earth are small,
yet they are exceedingly wise:
[25]the ants are a people without strength,
yet they provide their food in the summer;
[26]the badgers are a people without power,
yet they make their homes in the rocks;
[27]the locusts have no king,
yet all of them march in rank;
[28]the lizard can be grasped in the hand,
yet it is found in kings' palaces.
[29]Three things are stately in their stride;
four are stately in their gait:
[30]the lion, which is mightiest among wild animals
and does not turn back before any;
[31]the strutting rooster, the he-goat,
and a king striding before his people.
[32]If you have been foolish, exalting yourself,
or if you have been devising evil,
put your hand on your mouth.
[33]For as pressing milk produces curds,
and pressing the nose produces blood,
so pressing anger produces strife.
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Psalm 102
[1] Hear my
prayer, O LORD;
let my
cry come to you.
[2] Do not hide
your face from me
in the
day of my distress.
Incline your
ear to me;
answer me
speedily in the day when I call.
[3] For my days
pass away like smoke,
and my
bones burn like a furnace.
[4] My heart is
stricken and withered like grass;
I am too
wasted to eat my bread.
[5] Because of my
loud groaning
my bones
cling to my skin.
[6] I am like an
owl of the wilderness,
like a
little owl of the waste places.
[7] I lie
awake;
I am like
a lonely bird on the housetop.
[8] All day long
my enemies taunt me;
those who
deride me use my name for a curse.
[9] For I eat
ashes like bread,
and
mingle tears with my drink,
[10] because of
your indignation and anger;
for you
have lifted me up and thrown me aside.
[11] My days are
like an evening shadow;
I wither
away like grass.
[12] But you, O
LORD, are enthroned forever;
your name
endures to all generations.
[13] You will rise
up and have compassion on Zion,
for it is
time to favor 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 midcourse;
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.
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