Psalm 102 #catechesis/bible/psalm
[!abstract] A prayer for one in affliction: the fifth penitential psalm.
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GR προσευχὴ τῷ πτωχῷ ὅταν ἀκηδιάσῃ καὶ ἐναντίον κυρίου ἐκχέῃ τὴν δέησιν αὐτοῦ
LA Oratio pauperis, cum anxius fuerit, et in conspectu Domini effuderit precem suam.
EN The prayer of the poor man, when he was anxious, and poured out his supplication before the Lord.
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GR εἰσάκουσον κύριε τῆς προσευχῆς μου καὶ ἡ κραυγή μου πρὸς σὲ ἐλθάτω
LA Domine, exaudi orationem meam, et clamor meus ad te veniat.
EN Hear, O Lord, my prayer: and let my cry come to you.
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GR μὴ ἀποστρέψῃς τὸ πρόσωπόν σου ἀπ’ ἐμοῦ ἐν ᾗ ἂν ἡμέρᾳ θλίβωμαι κλῖνον τὸ οὖς σου πρός με ἐν ᾗ ἂν ἡμέρᾳ ἐπικαλέσωμαί σε ταχὺ εἰσάκουσόν μου
LA Non avertas faciem tuam a me: in quacumque die tribulor, inclina ad me aurem tuam; in quacumque die invocavero te, velociter exaudi me.
EN Turn not away your face from me: in the day when I am in trouble, incline your ear to me. In what day soever I shall call upon you, hear me speedily.
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GR ὅτι ἐξέλιπον ὡσεὶ καπνὸς αἱ ἡμέραι μου καὶ τὰ ὀστᾶ μου ὡσεὶ φρύγιον συνεφρύγησαν
LA Quia defecerunt sicut fumus dies mei, et ossa mea sicut cremium aruerunt.
EN For my days are vanished like smoke, and my bones are grown dry like fuel for the fire.
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GR ἐπλήγη ὡσεὶ χόρτος καὶ ἐξηράνθη ἡ καρδία μου ὅτι ἐπελαθόμην τοῦ φαγεῖν τὸν ἄρτον μου
LA Percussus sum ut fœnum, et aruit cor meum, quia oblitus sum comedere panem meum.
EN I am smitten as grass, and my heart is withered: because I forgot to eat my bread.
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GR ἀπὸ φωνῆς τοῦ στεναγμοῦ μου ἐκολλήθη τὸ ὀστοῦν μου τῇ σαρκί μου
LA A voce gemitus mei adhæsit os meum carni meæ.
EN Through the voice of my groaning, my bone has cleaved to my flesh.
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GR ὡμοιώθην πελεκᾶνι ἐρημικῷ ἐγενήθην ὡσεὶ νυκτικόραξ ἐν οἰκοπέδῳ
LA Similis factus sum pellicano solitudinis; factus sum sicut nycticorax in domicilio.
EN I have become like to a pelican of the wilderness: I am like a night raven in the house.
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GR ἠγρύπνησα καὶ ἐγενήθην ὡσεὶ στρουθίον μονάζον ἐπὶ δώματι
LA Vigilavi, et factus sum sicut passer solitarius in tecto.
EN I have watched, and have become as a sparrow all alone on the housetop.
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GR ὅλην τὴν ἡμέραν ὠνείδιζόν με οἱ ἐχθροί μου καὶ οἱ ἐπαινοῦντές με κατ’ ἐμοῦ ὤμνυον
LA Tota die exprobrabant mihi inimici mei, et qui laudabant me adversum me jurabant:
EN All the day long my enemies reproached me: and they that praised me did swear against me.
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GR ὅτι σποδὸν ὡσεὶ ἄρτον ἔφαγον καὶ τὸ πόμα μου μετὰ κλαυθμοῦ ἐκίρνων
LA quia cinerem tamquam panem manducabam, et potum meum cum fletu miscebam,
EN For I ate ashes like bread, and mingled my drink with weeping.
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GR ἀπὸ προσώπου τῆς ὀργῆς σου καὶ τοῦ θυμοῦ σου ὅτι ἐπάρας κατέρραξάς με
LA a facie iræ et indignationis tuæ: quia elevans allisisti me.
EN Because of your anger and indignation: for having lifted me up you have thrown me down.
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GR αἱ ἡμέραι μου ὡσεὶ σκιὰ ἐκλίθησαν καὶ ἐγὼ ὡσεὶ χόρτος ἐξηράνθην
LA Dies mei sicut umbra declinaverunt, et ego sicut fœnum arui.
EN My days have declined like a shadow, and I am withered like grass.
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GR σὺ δέ κύριε εἰς τὸν αἰῶνα μένεις καὶ τὸ μνημόσυνόν σου εἰς γενεὰν καὶ γενεάν
LA Tu autem, Domine, in æternum permanes, et memoriale tuum in generationem et generationem.
EN But you, O Lord, endure for ever: and your memorial to all generations.
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GR σὺ ἀναστὰς οἰκτιρήσεις τὴν Σιων ὅτι καιρὸς τοῦ οἰκτιρῆσαι αὐτήν ὅτι ἥκει καιρός
LA Tu exsurgens misereberis Sion, quia tempus miserendi ejus, quia venit tempus:
EN You shall arise and have mercy on Sion: for it is time to have mercy on it, for the time has come.
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GR ὅτι εὐδόκησαν οἱ δοῦλοί σου τοὺς λίθους αὐτῆς καὶ τὸν χοῦν αὐτῆς οἰκτιρήσουσιν
LA quoniam placuerunt servis tuis lapides ejus, et terræ ejus miserebuntur.
EN For the stones thereof have pleased your servants: and they shall have pity on the earth thereof.
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GR καὶ φοβηθήσονται τὰ ἔθνη τὸ ὄνομα κυρίου καὶ πάντες οἱ βασιλεῖς τῆς γῆς τὴν δόξαν σου
LA Et timebunt gentes nomen tuum, Domine, et omnes reges terræ gloriam tuam:
EN All the Gentiles shall fear your name, O Lord, and all the kings of the earth your glory.
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GR ὅτι οἰκοδομήσει κύριος τὴν Σιων καὶ ὀφθήσεται ἐν τῇ δόξῃ αὐτοῦ
LA quia ædificavit Dominus Sion, et videbitur in gloria sua.
EN For the Lord has built up Sion: and he shall be seen in his glory.
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GR ἐπέβλεψεν ἐπὶ τὴν προσευχὴν τῶν ταπεινῶν καὶ οὐκ ἐξουδένωσεν τὴν δέησιν αὐτῶν
LA Respexit in orationem humilium et non sprevit precem eorum.
EN He has had regard to the prayer of the humble: and he has not despised their petition.
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GR γραφήτω αὕτη εἰς γενεὰν ἑτέραν καὶ λαὸς ὁ κτιζόμενος αἰνέσει τὸν κύριον
LA Scribantur hæc in generatione altera, et populus qui creabitur laudabit Dominum.
EN Let these things be written unto another generation: and the people that shall be created shall praise the Lord:
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GR ὅτι ἐξέκυψεν ἐξ ὕψους ἁγίου αὐτοῦ κύριος ἐξ οὐρανοῦ ἐπὶ τὴν γῆν ἐπέβλεψεν
LA Quia prospexit de excelso sancto suo; Dominus de cælo in terram aspexit:
EN Because he has looked forth from his high sanctuary: from heaven the Lord has looked upon the earth.
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GR τοῦ ἀκοῦσαι τὸν στεναγμὸν τῶν πεπεδημένων τοῦ λῦσαι τοὺς υἱοὺς τῶν τεθανατωμένων
LA ut audiret gemitus compeditorum; ut solveret filios interemptorum:
EN That he might hear the groans of them that are in fetters: that he might release the children of the slain:
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GR τοῦ ἀναγγεῖλαι ἐν Σιων τὸ ὄνομα κυρίου καὶ τὴν αἴνεσιν αὐτοῦ ἐν Ιερουσαλημ
LA ut annuntient in Sion nomen Domini, et laudem ejus in Jerusalem:
EN That they may declare the name of the Lord in Sion: and his praise in Jerusalem;
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GR ἐν τῷ συναχθῆναι λαοὺς ἐπὶ τὸ αὐτὸ καὶ βασιλείας τοῦ δουλεύειν τῷ κυρίῳ
LA in conveniendo populos in unum, et reges, ut serviant Domino.
EN when the people assemble together, and kings, to serve the Lord.
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GR ἀπεκρίθη αὐτῷ ἐν ὁδῷ ἰσχύος αὐτοῦ τὴν ὀλιγότητα τῶν ἡμερῶν μου ἀνάγγειλόν μοι
LA Respondit ei in via virtutis suæ: Paucitatem dierum meorum nuntia mihi:
EN He answered him in the way of his strength: Declare unto me the fewness of my days.
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[!note]- He answered him in the way of his strength…
That is, the people, mentioned in the foregoing verse, or the penitent, in whose person this psalm is delivered, answered the Lord in the way of his strength: that is, according to the best of his power and strength: or when he was in the flower of his age and strength: inquiring after the fewness of his days: to know if he should live long enough to see the happy restoration of Sion, etc. Commentary on the Old Testament (1752)
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GR μὴ ἀναγάγῃς με ἐν ἡμίσει ἡμερῶν μου ἐν γενεᾷ γενεῶν τὰ ἔτη σου
LA ne revoces me in dimidio dierum meorum, in generationem et generationem anni tui.
EN Call me not away in the midst of my days: your years are unto generation and generation.
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GR κατ’ ἀρχὰς σύ κύριε τὴν γῆν ἐθεμελίωσας καὶ ἔργα τῶν χειρῶν σού εἰσιν οἱ οὐρανοί
LA Initio tu, Domine, terram fundasti, et opera manuum tuarum sunt cæli.
EN In the beginning, O Lord, you founded the earth: and the heavens are the works of your hands.
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GR αὐτοὶ ἀπολοῦνται σὺ δὲ διαμενεῖς καὶ πάντες ὡς ἱμάτιον παλαιωθήσονται καὶ ὡσεὶ περιβόλαιον ἀλλάξεις αὐτούς καὶ ἀλλαγήσονται
LA Ipsi peribunt, tu autem permanes; et omnes sicut vestimentum veterascent. Et sicut opertorium mutabis eos, et mutabuntur;
EN They shall perish but you remain: and all of them shall grow old like a garment: And as a vesture you shall change them, and they shall be changed.
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GR σὺ δὲ ὁ αὐτὸς εἶ καὶ τὰ ἔτη σου οὐκ ἐκλείψουσιν
LA tu autem idem ipse es, et anni tui non deficient.
EN But you are always the selfsame, and your years shall not fail.
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GR οἱ υἱοὶ τῶν δούλων σου κατασκηνώσουσιν καὶ τὸ σπέρμα αὐτῶν εἰς τὸν αἰῶνα κατευθυνθήσεται
LA Filii servorum tuorum habitabunt, et semen eorum in sæculum dirigetur.
EN The children of your servants shall continue and their seed shall be directed for ever.
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[!note]- A pelican, etc…
I am become through grief, like birds that affect solitude and darkness. Commentary on the Old Testament (1752)
