Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary
Psalms 102:14
Thy people value the dust and rubbish of the holy city more than all the palaces of the earth, and passionately desire that it may be rebuilt.
Thy people value the dust and rubbish of the holy city more than all the palaces of the earth, and passionately desire that it may be rebuilt.
Verse Psalms 102:14. _THY SERVANTS TAKE PLEASURE IN HER STONES_] Though Jerusalem was at this time in a heap of ruins, yet even her rubbish was sacred in the eyes of the pious; for this had been _the_...
FOR THY SERVANTS TAKE PLEASURE IN HER STONES - Those who profess to be thy servants; thy friends. This was the “evidence” to the mind of the psalmist that God was about to visit his people, and to reb...
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...
STONES. Put by Figure of speech _Synecdoche_ (of Part), for the restored buildings....
DISCOURSE: 670 THE RESTORATION OF THE JEWS Psalms 102:13. _Thou shalt arise, and have mercy upon Zion: for the time to favour her, yea, the set time, is come: for thy servants take pleasure in her st...
FOR THY SERVANTS TAKE PLEASURE, &C.— _Thy servants also bear an affection to her ruins, and commiserate her dust:_ Green; in conformity to the version of the Liturgy of the church of England, as well...
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
My days are like a shadow that declineth; and I am withered like grass. -In contrast to his own frailty, the Psalmist finds that consolation in God's abiding character which assures him that God wi...
102:14 favour (d-10) Or 'are gracious to,' as in preceding verse....
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". ...
(13-16) The prospect (Isaiah 40:1) that the restoration of Jerusalem will take place simultaneously with the coming of Jehovah in glory, is here re-echoed from the prophet in a lyric form. “The set ti...
STONES... DUST. — This touching description of the devotion of the Jews to their ruined city is best illustrated by the actual history in Nehemiah 3:4, and by the scenes so often described by travelle...
_[Psalms 102:15]_ כִּֽי ־רָצ֣וּ עֲ֭בָדֶיךָ אֶת ־אֲבָנֶ֑יהָ...
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...
For thy servants take pleasure in her (l) stones, and favour the dust thereof. (l) The more the Church is in misery and desolation, the more the faithful should love and pity it....
_He remembereth. Roman Septuagint and psalter, &c., "Remember." Other copies agree with us. (Calmet) --- God compassionates the frailty of those who fear him. Origen falsely inferred from ver. 9., tha...
Still prosecuting the subject of this most blessed psalm, with reference to our adorable and glorious Mediator, may we not accept the several expressions here, as spoken by Christ, in his capacity of...
14._For thy servants take pleasure in her stones _To restrict this to Cyrus and Darius is altogether unsuitable. It is not at all wonderful to find the Jewish doctors hunting, with excessive eagerness...
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...
FOR THY SERVANTS TAKE PLEASURE IN HER STONES,.... Meaning not Cyrus and Darius, who gave leave and orders for the rebuilding of the city and temple of Jerusalem, as some; nor Nehemiah, and Ezra, and o...
For thy servants take pleasure in her stones, and favour the dust thereof. Ver. 14. _For thy servants take pleasure in her stones_] They pity her, and wish her welfare; much more then dost thou. He a...
_Thou shalt have mercy upon Zion_ Upon Jerusalem, or thy church and people; _for the set time is come_ The end of those seventy years which was the time fixed for the continuing of the Babylonish capt...
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...
For Thy servants, the believers of all times, TAKE PLEASURE IN HER STONES, all of them being filled with fervent love for the Church, AND FAVOR THE DUST THEREOF, their loving desire clinging to the ve...
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...
Psalms 102:14 servants H5650 pleasure H7521 (H8804) stones H68 favor H2603 (H8779) dust H6083...
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._...
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...
_For Thy servants take pleasure in her stones, and favour the dust thereof._ THE SECRET OF THE STONES Stones and dust! Stones that have fallen out of place and lie scattered on the ground; dust that...
_Thou shalt arise, and have mercy upon Zion: for the time to favour her, yea, the set time, is come._ A REVIVAL OF THE CHURCH, AND SYMPTOMS WHICH PRECEDE IT I. There is a favourable time to promote...
_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 102:12 The enduring reign of God (ENTHRONED FOREVER, REMEMBERED THROUGHOUT ALL GENERATIONS) brings about the ultimate success of his saving purposes in the world (v....
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...
Daniel 9:16; Ezra 1:5; Ezra 3:1; Ezra 7:27; Nehemiah 1:3;...