Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Psalms 102:10
Lifted me — As a man lifts up a thing as high as he can, that he may cast it to the ground with greater force.
Lifted me — As a man lifts up a thing as high as he can, that he may cast it to the ground with greater force.
Verse Psalms 102:10. _FOR THOU HAST LIFTED ME UP, AND CAST ME DOWN._] Thou hast lifted me on high, that thou Lightest dash me down with the _greater force_. We were _exalted_ in thy _favour_ beyond an...
BECAUSE OF THINE INDIGNATION AND THY WRATH - Hebrew, “From the face of thine indignation,” etc. That is - he regarded all his sufferings as proof of the indignation and wrath of God against him. See P...
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...
BECAUSE OF. from the face of. See note on Psalms 95:2....
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
Because of thine indignation and thy wrath: for thou hast lifted me up, and cast me down. BECAUSE OF THINE INDIGNATION AND THY WRATH - (PSALMS 37:1 .) FOR THOU HAST LIFTED ME UP, AND CAST ME DOWN -...
102:10 wrath; (b-7) See Notes, Psalms 38:1 and 3....
LIFTED.. UP.. CAST DOWN] RV 'taken.. up.. cast away.'...
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". ...
INDIGNATION AND THY WRATH. — Comp. Psalms 90:7. The last part of the clause is a figure taken from the action of a whirlwind. (Comp. Job 27:20; Job 30:22.)...
_[Psalms 102:11]_ מִ פְּנֵֽי ־זַֽעַמְךָ֥ וְ קִצְפֶּ֑ךָ...
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...
Because of thine (h) indignation and thy wrath: for thou hast lifted me up, and cast me down. (h) He shows that not only the afflictions moved him, but chiefly the feeling of God's displeasure....
_Iniquities. Which deserved eternal reprobation._...
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...
10._On account of thy anger and thy wrath _He now declares that the greatness of his grief proceeded not only from outward troubles and calamities, but from a sense that these were a punishment inflic...
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...
BECAUSE OF THINE INDIGNATION AND THY WRATH,.... This was the burden of his complaint, what gave him the greatest uneasiness; not so much the reproach of his enemies, and his other outward afflictions,...
Because of thine indignation and thy wrath: for thou hast lifted me up, and cast me down. Ver. 10. _Because of thine indignation_] This lay heavier upon the good man's heart than all the rest, God wa...
_I have eaten ashes like bread_ That is, instead of eating my bread, I have laid down in dust and ashes. Or, dust and ashes are as constant and familiar to me as the eating of my bread; I cover my hea...
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...
because of Thine indignation and Thy wrath, Jehovah having given him proof of His anger over his trespasses; FOR THOU HAST LIFTED ME UP, withdrawing the solid ground from beneath his feet, AND CAST ME...
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...
BECAUSE OF THINE INDIGNATION AND THY WRATH; because I do not only conflict with men, but with the Almighty God, and with his anger. FOR THOU HAST LIFTED ME UP, AND CAST ME DOWN; as a man lifts up a pe...
Psalms 102:10 Because H6440 indignation H2195 wrath H7110 up H5375 (H8804) away H7993 (H8686) Because -...
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...
1 Samuel 2:7; 1 Samuel 2:8; 2 Chronicles 25:8; 2 Corinthians 4:9;...