George Haydock's Catholic Commentary
Psalms 102:22
Soul. In vain should we behold all nature praising God, if we neglected that duty. (Berthier) --- All the works of the Most High praise him, being under his dominion. (Worthington)
Soul. In vain should we behold all nature praising God, if we neglected that duty. (Berthier) --- All the works of the Most High praise him, being under his dominion. (Worthington)
Verse Psalms 102:22. _WHEN THE PEOPLE ARE GATHERED TOGETHER_] When all the _Gentiles_ are enlightened, and the kings of the earth brought to pay homage to the King of kings....
WHEN THE PEOPLE ARE GATHERED TOGETHER - When they shall be brought from their dispersion in distant lands; when they shall assemble again in the city of their fathers, and when public worship shall be...
Psalms 102 Christ the King in His Humiliation _ 1. In the place of humiliation and dependence (Psalms 102:1)_ 2. His enemies (Psalms 102:8) 3. The set time for Zion ...
CII. The title, which is unique in the Psalter, describes the contents of Psalms 102:1 very well. So far the Ps. is the prayer of a man in extreme affliction. The same may be said of Psalms 102:23 and...
WHEN, &C. Compare Psalms 22:27; Psalms 68:32.Isaiah 45:14. Fulfilling Genesis 49:10....
PSALMS 102 DESCRIPTIVE TITLE The Prayer of a Humbled One brings a Threefold Answer of Peace. ANALYSIS Stanza I., Psalms 102:1-11, A Humbled One's Complaint. Stanza II., Psalms 102:12-17
This shall be written for the generation to come: and the people which shall be created shall praise the LORD. -The generation to come shall praise the Lord for having loosed the groaning prisoners...
This Ps. belongs to the closing days of the exile, and utters the hope of Israel's restoration (Psalms 102:13). The Psalmist has been supposed by some to speak simply in the name of the nation, but it...
PEOPLE] RV 'peoples.' 25-27. Quoted in Hebrews 1:10. 27, 28. The changelessness of God is a guarantee that His kingdom will endure among men. This is an argument for national rather than for persona...
Psalms 90:106 _GORDON CHURCHYARD_ A YOUNG MAN WITH TROUBLE PSALMS 102 Jesus said, "Do not let trouble stay in your mind. *Believe in God and believe in me also". ...
_[Psalms 102:23]_ בְּ הִקָּבֵ֣ץ עַמִּ֣ים יַחְדָּ֑ו וּ֝...
Psalms 102:1 Psalms 102:13 show that the psalm was written when Zion was in ruins and the time of her restoration at hand. Sadness shot with hope, as a cloud with sunlight, is the singer's mood. The p...
THE TIME TO HAVE MERCY UPON ZION Psalms 102:12 We must remember that the Holy Spirit appropriates the closing words of this psalm as addressed to our Lord. See Hebrews 1:10. This gives new point to t...
This is a song of faith triumphing over affliction. Beginning with a prayer for deliverance, and a statement of the circumstances of suffering in which he then was, together with a recognition of thos...
When the people are gathered (p) together, and the kingdoms, to serve the LORD. (p) He shows that Gad's name is never more praised, than when religion flourishes and the church increases: which is ch...
How truly lovely is it to observe, through every part of Scripture, the confirmation of the everlasting love, and unchangeable purposes of Jehovah, concerning redemption! It was this tender look of Go...
Psalms 102 is one of the most, perhaps the most, remarkable of all the psalms, and presents Christ in a way divinely admirable. Verse 10 (Psalms 102:10) gives the occasion of the cry with which the ps...
WHEN THE PEOPLE ARE GATHERED TOGETHER,.... When the people of the Jews shall be gathered together, and seek the Lord their God, and David their King, the Messiah, and appoint them one head, even Chris...
When the people are gathered together, and the kingdoms, to serve the LORD. Ver. 22. _When the people are gathered together_] _sc._ To the Lord Christ; for to "Shiloh shall be the gathering of the pe...
_For he hath looked down_ Namely, upon us, and not as an idle spectator, but with an eye of pity and relief; _from the height of his sanctuary_ From his higher or upper sanctuary, namely, heaven, as t...
COMPLAINT OF ONE IN GREAT TROUBLE. A prayer of the afflicted, one in great misery and distress, when he is overwhelmed, Psalms 61:2, and poureth out his complaint, as from an inverted vessel, in a fu...
when the people are gathered together and the kingdoms to serve the Lord, in that wonderful organization now known as the Christian Church. The psalmist now pictures the situation of the individual be...
12-22 We are dying creatures, but God is an everlasting God, the protector of his church; we may be confident that it will not be neglected. When we consider our own vileness, our darkness and deadne...
When the Gentiles shall gather themselves to the Jews, and join with them in the praise and worship of the true God, and of the Messias. This verse seems to be added to intimate, that although the psa...
Psalms 102:22 peoples H5971 gathered H6908 (H8736) together H3162 kingdoms H4467 serve H5647 (H8800) LORD H3068
CONTENTS: Sorrowful complaint of great afflictions and a believing prospect of deliverance. CHARACTERS: God, Psalmist. CONCLUSION: The greatest ease to an afflicted spirit is to unburden itself by a...
It appears from Psalms 102:13, that this psalm was written in Babylon, and near the time of the Jewish emancipation. It is highly prophetic of the greater deliverance by the Messiah, whose law should...
_Hear my prayer, O Lord, and let my cry come unto Thee._ THOUGHTS OF COMFORT AND COMPLAINT I. Thoughts of complaint (Psalms 102:1). 1. Concerning bodily sufferings. (1) The physical anguish of lif...
PSALM PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 102:1. The title, “A Prayer of one afflicted,” makes it clear that this is an individual lament. At the same time, it is certainly not individualistic: the “I” who sings thi...
PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 102:18 The days of Zion’s glory lie in the future, in the time of A GENERATION TO COME. They will need this record of God’s promises and faithfulness to his people of all eras. Th...
INTRODUCTION It is impossible to determine on what occasion and by whom this Psalm was composed. Prof. Alexander and Hengstenberg regard it as a composition of David. But from internal evidence, espec...
EXPOSITION THE "title" of this psalm is altogether peculiar, being "a Prayer for the afflicted, when he faints, and pours out his complaint before Jehovah." This is clearly a general direction for the...
In Psalms 102:1-28, David begins with a prayer asking God to hear his prayer. Hear my prayer, O LORD, and let my cry come unto thee. Hide not thy face from me in the day when I am in trouble; incline...
Genesis 49:10; Hosea 1:9; Isaiah 49:22; Isaiah 49:23; Isaiah 60:3;...
When — When the Gentiles shall gather themselves to the Jews, and join with them in the worship of the true God....