The children of Thy servants shall continue, the Christian Church continuing from one generation to the next, and their seed shall be established before Thee, as the community of believers reserved to eternal life. With this thought to sustain them, the Christians may cheerfully lift up their hearts to Jehovah, the God of their salvation. and trust in His deliverance.
Verse Psalms 102:28. _THE CHILDREN OF THY SERVANTS SHALL CONTINUE_] Thy _Church_ shall be permanent, because founded _on thee_; it shall live throughout all the revolutions of time. And as thy follow...
THE CHILDREN OF THY SERVANTS SHALL CONTINUE - The descendants of those that serve and obey thee. This represents the confident expectation of the psalmist that, as God was unchangeable, all his promis...
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...
CHILDREN. sons. SHALL CONTINUE. shall dwell [in the Land]....
DISCOURSE: 671 THE ETERNITY AND IMMUTABILITY OF CHRIST Psalms 102:25. Of old hast thou laid the foundation of the earth; and the heavens are the work of thy hands: they shall perish, but thou shalt en...
THE CHILDREN OF THY SERVANTS— _Let the sins of thy servants be settled, and their seed be established before thee._ This is a concluding prayer that their posterity might be settled in Jerusalem for e...
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
The children of thy servants shall continue, and their seed shall be established before thee. THE CHILDREN OF THY SERVANTS SHALL CONTINUE - literally, 'shall dwell' or 'inhabit' their own land, the...
102:28 abide, (h-7) Or 'dwell,' as Psalms 37:27 ,Psalms 37:29 ....
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...
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". ...
CONTINUE. — Rather, _dwell, i.e.,_ in the land of Canaan. (Comp. Psalms 37:22; Psalms 69:36.)...
_[Psalms 102:29]_ בְּנֵֽי ־עֲבָדֶ֥יךָ יִשְׁכֹּ֑ונוּ וְ֝ זַרְעָ֗ם
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...
The children of thy servants shall continue, and their seed shall (s) be established before thee. (s) Seeing you have chosen your Church out of the world, and joined it to you, it cannot but continue...
PSALM CII. (BENEDIC ANIMA.) Thanksgiving to God for his mercies....
From the apostle Paul's quotation of this glorious passage, Hebrews 1:10, etc. and his illustration of it, as there explained, it should seem very evident that these verses contain God the Father's an...
REFLECTIONS READER, I know not what soul exercises or afflictions your heart may be wounded with; but I venture to believe, that the truest relief under all, is to view Christ in his unequalled sorrow...
28._The children of thy servants shall dwell_. By these words the prophet intimates that he does not ask the preservation of the Church, because it is a part of the human race, but because God has rai...
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...
THE CHILDREN OF THY SERVANTS SHALL CONTINUE,.... The "servants" of the Lord are the apostles of Christ, and ministers of the word, in all successive generations, with whom Christ will be to the end of...
_The children of thy servants shall continue, and their seed shall be established before thee._ Ver. 28. _The children of thy servants shall continue_] By virtue of the covenant, and that union with...
_The children of thy servants shall continue_ Though the heavens and the earth perish, and though we, thy servants, _pine away in our iniquities_, according to thy righteous sentence and threatening,...
23-28 Bodily distempers soon weaken our strength, then what can we expect but that our months should be cut off in the midst; and what should we do but provide accordingly? We must own God's hand in...
Though the heavens and the earth perish, and though we thy servants _pine away in our iniquities_, according to thy righteous sentence and threatening, LEVITICUS 26:39, and die in captivity; yet by vi...
Psalms 102:28 children H1121 servants H5650 continue H7931 (H8799) descendants H2233 established H3559 (H8735) before...
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...
_The children of Thy servants shall continue, and their seed shall be established before Thee._ GOD’S CARE FOR THE POSTERITY OF HIS SERVANTS I. How far a blessing cometh on the posterity of God’s se...
_They shall perish, but Thou shalt endure._ A PERISHING WORLD AND AN IMMUTABLE GOD The great practical lesson which we are being daily taught is this, to withdraw our hearts from a changing and deca...
_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 102:25 The psalm finishes with words addressed to God, focusing on his everlasting being and purpose. Though the earth and heavens WILL PERISH and WILL ALL WEAR OUT LIKE A GARMENT...
PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 102:28 CHILDREN... OFFSPRING. The Lord, who is everlasting, can ensure that the descendants of his SERVANTS will DWELL SECURE, that is, will enjoy God’s love and Zi
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...
Isaiah 53:10; Isaiah 59:20; Isaiah 59:21; Isaiah 65:22; Isaiah 66:22
Continue — Though the heavens and earth perish, yet we rest assured that our children, and their children after them, shall enjoy an happy restitution to, and settlement in their own land....