Kretzmann's Popular Commentary
Psalms 102:6
I am like a pelican of the wilderness; I am like an owl of the desert, of ruined places, both of these being unclean birds according to the Levitical law.
I am like a pelican of the wilderness; I am like an owl of the desert, of ruined places, both of these being unclean birds according to the Levitical law.
Verse Psalms 102:6. _I AM LIKE A PELICAN OF THE WILDERNESS_] It may be the _pelican_ or the _bittern_. The original, קאת _kaath_, is mentioned Leviticus 11:18, and is there described. See the note. L...
I AM LIKE A PELICAN OF THE WILDERNESS - A bird in the midst of desolation becomes a striking image of loneliness and distress. The word rendered “pelican” - קאת _qâ'ath_ - is supposed to have been a...
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...
A PELICAN... OWL: both unclean birds. ALONE. Some codices, with one early printed edition, read "flitting to and fro"....
I AM LIKE A PELICAN OF THE WILDERNESS— There are two species of _pelicans,_ one of which lives in the water, upon fish; the other in the wilderness, upon serpents and reptiles. By the _owl of the dese...
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
I am like a pelican of the wilderness: I am like an owl of the desert. I AM LIKE A PELICAN OF THE WILDERNESS - (, margin) Expressive of his misery. I AM LIKE AN OWL OF THE DESERT - or, as the Syria...
DESERT] RV 'waste places.'...
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". ...
PELICAN. — See Leviticus 11:18. “It has been objected that the pelican is a water-bird, and cannot, therefore, be the _kâath_ of the Scriptures — “the pelican of the wilderness” — as it must of necess...
_[Psalms 102:7]_ דָּ֭מִיתִי לִ קְאַ֣ת מִדְבָּ֑ר הָ֝יִ֗יתִי...
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...
I am like a (e) pelican of the wilderness: I am like an owl of the desert. (e) Always mourning in solitude and casting out fearful cries....
_Mercies. Hebrew, "Justice" in protecting the innocent._...
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...
6_I have become like a pelican of the wilderness _Instead of rendering the original word by _pelican, _some translate it _bittern, _and others the _cuckoo. _The Hebrew word here used for _owl _is rend...
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...
I AM LIKE A PELICAN OF THE WILDERNESS,.... It may be so called, to distinguish it from another of the same name that lives upon the waters; which has the name of "pelican" in the Greek tongue, as is s...
I am like a pelican of the wilderness: I am like an owl of the desert. Ver. 6. _I am like a pelican_] Or bittern, which liveth in lonely places, and crieth out dolefully, Isa 34:11 Zephaniah 2:14 . _...
Psa. 40:6-8. "Sacrifice and offering thou didst not desire; mine ears hast thou opened (or bored): burnt-offering and sin-offering hast thou not required. Then said I, Lo, I come: in the volume of the...
_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...
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...
PELICAN; or, _bittern_, as the same word is translated, ISAIAH 34:11 ZEPHANIAH 2:14. It is a solitary and mournful bird, as also the owl here following is....
Psalms 102:6 like H1819 (H8804) pelican H6893 wilderness H4057 owl H3563 desert H2723 like -...
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...
Isaiah 34:11; Isaiah 38:14; Job 30:29; Job 30:30; Micah 1:8;...
A pelican — Is a solitary and mournful bird....