Verse Psalms 102:25. _OF OLD HAST THOU LAID THE FOUNDATION_] None taught of God ever imagined the world to have been _eternal_. _Of old_, לפנים lephanim, before there were any _faces_ or _appearances...
OF OLD - See this passage fully explained in the notes at Hebrews 1:10. In the beginning; at the first. The phrase used here means literally “to the face;” then, “before” in the order of time. It mean...
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...
OF OLD, &C. Quoted in Hebrews 1:10, which shows this Psalm is all prophetic of Messiah....
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...
OF OLD HAST THOU LAID THE FOUNDATION, &C.— See Isaiah 51:6 where the prophet tells us, that the heaven and earth shall wax old like a garment; but the Psalmist here goes one step further than the prop...
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...
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 44:24; Isaiah 48:13....
_[Psalms 102:26]_ לְ֭ פָנִים הָ אָ֣רֶץ יָסַ֑דְתָּ...
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...
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...
25_Thou hast aforetime founded the earth _Here the sacred writer amplifies what he had previously stated, declaring, that compared with God the whole world is a form which quickly vanishes away; and y...
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...
OF OLD HAST THOU LAID THE FOUNDATION OF THE EARTH,.... The lower part of the creation, the Lord's footstool, called the earth beneath: this has its foundation; though what it is cannot be well said, i...
Of old hast thou laid the foundation of the earth: and the heavens [are] the work of thy hands. Ver. 25. _Of old thou hast laid the foundation, &c._] Here is a clear proof of Christ's eternity, Hebre...
_Of old hast thou laid the foundation of the earth_ The eternity of God looks both backward and forward: it is both without beginning and without end. The latter is affirmed and illustrated Psalms 102...
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...
Of old hast Thou laid the foundation of the earth, His creative power therefore being able to work deliverance also in this extremity; AND THE HEAVENS ARE THE WORK OF THY HANDS, a product of His act o...
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...
The eternity of God looks both backward and forward, it is both without beginning and without end. The former is affirmed and illustrated PSALMS 102:24,26,27, the latter is clearly implied in this ver...
Psalms 102:25 old H6440 foundation H3245 (H8804) earth H776 heavens H8064 work H4639 hands H3027...
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 102:25 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...
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...