Kretzmann's Popular Commentary
Psalms 102:5
By reason of the voice of my groaning, on account of the effort attending his continual moaning and lamenting, my bones cleave to my skin, his extreme emaciation due to his agony.
By reason of the voice of my groaning, on account of the effort attending his continual moaning and lamenting, my bones cleave to my skin, his extreme emaciation due to his agony.
BY REASON OF THE VOICE OF MY GROANING - By suffering and trouble, so great as to produce groaning, my flesh is wasted away. MY BONES CLEAVE TO MY SKIN - Margin, “flesh.” The Hebrew word means “flesh.”...
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...
SKIN. flesh....
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
By reason of the voice of my groaning my bones cleave to my skin. BY REASON OF THE VOICE OF MY GROANING. What is here said of the complaining sufferer is in said of Zion, whom he represents, as bei...
SKIN] RV 'flesh.' 6, 7. describe figuratively the Psalmist's mournful love of solitude....
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". ...
SKIN. — See margin. In Lamentations 4:8, more correctly, “my skin cleaveth to my bones;” a picture of emaciation, the result of fasting....
_[Psalms 102:6]_ מִ קֹּ֥ול אַנְחָתִ֑י דָּבְקָ֥ה עַ֝צְמִ֗י...
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 CRY OF THE AFFLICTED Psalms 102:1 This is the fifth of the Penitential Psalms. Some hold that it is one of the later psalms, asking for deliverance from captivity; others, emphasizing certain Dav...
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...
Eagle's. Which get fresh feathers every year, like other birds, Isaias xl. 31. (Calmet) --- The eagle retains its vigour for a long time, (Haydock) though many fabulous accounts have been given of its...
I make no chasm in the reading of these verses, because they form together a complete detail of the state of the sufferer, and serve the better, in an united point of view, to interest our hearts in t...
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...
BY REASON OF THE VOICE OF MY GROANING,.... Under the burden of sin, and pressure of afflictions: MY BONES CLEAVE TO MY SKIN; was quite emaciated, reduced to a skeleton, became nothing but skin and bo...
By reason of the voice of my groaning my bones cleave to my skin. Ver. 5. _By reason of the voice of my groaning_] A broken spirit drieth the bones, Proverbs 17:22, and, by drinking up the marrow and...
_My heart is withered like grass_ Which is smitten and withered by the heat of the sun, either while it stands, or after it is cut down. _So that I forget to eat my bread_ Because my mind is wholly sw...
SKIN: Or, flesh...
1-11 The whole word of God is of use to direct us in prayer; but here, is often elsewhere, the Holy Ghost has put words into our mouths. Here is a prayer put into the hands of the afflicted; let them...
My flesh being quite consumed with excessive sorrows....
Psalms 102:5 sound H6963 groaning H585 bones H6106 cling H1692 (H8804) skin H1320 the voice - Psal
Psalms 102:1. _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 thine ear unto me: in the day when I call answer me speedily._...
Kindly notice the title of this Psalm: «Prayer of the afflicted, when he is overwhelmed, and poureth out his complaint before the LORD.» I call your attention to it in order to remind you what charges...
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 102:3 The singer focuses on his sense of discouragement: BONES BURN, HEART IS STRUCK DOWN, FORGET TO EAT MY BREAD, loud groaning
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...
Job 19:20; Lamentations 4:8; Proverbs 17:22; Psalms 32:3; Psalms 32:4
Skin — My flesh being quite consumed....