Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary
Psalms 102:20
To release his poor captives out of Babylon, and, which is more, from the chains and fetters of sin and Satan, and from eternal destruction.
To release his poor captives out of Babylon, and, which is more, from the chains and fetters of sin and Satan, and from eternal destruction.
Verse Psalms 102:20. _TO HEAR THE GROANING_] By sin, all the inhabitants of the earth are _miserable_. They have broken the Divine laws, are under the arrest of judgment, and all cast into _prison_. T...
TO HEAR THE GROANING OF THE PRISONER - Meaning here, probably, the captives in Babylon; those who were held as prisoners there, and who were subjected to such hardships in their long captivity. See th...
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...
THOSE... APPOINTED TO DEATH. the sons of death. Genitive of Relation. The Hebrew word for "death" occurs only here and Psalms 79:11. It is _feminine,_ as though the mother. Compare Romans 8:36, and se...
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...
102:20 die; (e-15) Lit. 'the sons of death.'...
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". ...
Comp. Isaiah 61:1, and generally the whole magnificent cycle of prophetic songs at the close of Isaiah. APPOINTED TO DEATH. — See margin. LXX. and Vulg., “the sons of the slain.”...
_[Psalms 102:21]_ לִ֭ שְׁמֹעַ אֶנְקַ֣ת אָסִ֑יר לְ֝...
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...
To hear the groaning of the prisoner; to loose those that are (o) appointed to death; (o) Who now in their banishment could look for nothing but death....
_His angels. You who have executed the orders of God for our delivery, help us to return him thanks. (Calmet) --- Hearkening. Literally, "to hear," (Haydock) or that all may learn to obey God's mandat...
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...
20._To hear the groaning of the prisoner _Here the prophet repeats once more what he had previously touched upon concerning prayer, in order again to stir up the hearts of the godly to engage in that...
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...
TO HEAR THE GROANINGS OF THE PRISONER,.... Not of a single person only, but of many, who lie in prisons in Popish countries, especially in the Inquisition; where they lie and groan, in darkness and mi...
To hear the groaning of the prisoner; to loose those that are appointed to death; Ver. 20. _To hear the groaning of the prisoner_] Those prisoners of hope held so long captive in Babylon, the cruelty...
_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...
to hear the groaning of the prisoner, the exiles of Judah serving to typify the spiritually afflicted in the Church at all times; TO LOOSE THOSE THAT ARE APPOINTED TO DEATH, by reason of bonds and cap...
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...
THOSE THAT ARE APPOINTED TO DEATH: _ Heb._ the children of death...
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 102:20 hear H8085 (H8800) groaning H603 prisoner H615 release H6605 (H8763) appointed H1121 death H8546...
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...
2 Chronicles 33:11; 2 Kings 13:22; 2 Kings 13:23; 2 Kings 13:4;...
To loose — To release his poor captives out of Babylon, and from the chains of sin and eternal destruction....