Yea, the set time is come— The time fixed for the continuance of the Babylonish captivity was 70 years. The set, or fixed time, here seems to mean, the time appointed for the restoration of the people, and the rebuilding of the temple. See Jeremiah 39:10, and the first note on this psalm.
Verse Psalms 102:13. _THOU SHALT ARISE_, AND _HAVE MERCY UPON ZION_] While he is humbled at the footstool of mercy, and earnestly praying for mercy, an answer of peace is given; he is assured, not on...
THOU SHALT ARISE - Thou wilt come forth - as if God had been inattentive or inactive. AND HAVE MERCY UPON ZION - That is, Upon Jerusalem - represented as in a state of desolation. God would at length...
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...
MERCY. compassion. ZION. See App-68. THE SET TIME. First, the end of the seventy years (Daniel 9:2.Nehemiah 2:17; Nehemiah 3:1); and second, the still future set time in God's counsels. All this is p...
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...
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...
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...
FAVOUR] RV 'have pity upon.' So in Psalms 102:14. THE SET TIME] see Isaiah 40:2; Isaiah 61:2....
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...
_[Psalms 102:14]_ אַתָּ֣ה תָ֭קוּם תְּרַחֵ֣ם צִיֹּ֑ון כִּי...
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...
Thou shalt arise, [and] have mercy upon Zion: for the time to favour her, yea, the (k) set time, is come. (k) That is, the seventy years which by the prophet Jeremiah you appointed, (Jeremiah 29:12)....
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...
13._Thou shalt arise, and have mercy upon Zion_. We have here the conclusion drawn from the truth stated in the preceding verse — God is eternal, and therefore he will have compassion upon Zion. God’s...
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...
THOU SHALT ARISE, AND HAVE MERCY ON ZION,.... Exert his power, and display the riches of his grace and mercy; not by delivering the Jews from the Babylonish captivity, to which some restrain it; but b...
Thou shalt arise, [and] have mercy upon Zion: for the time to favour her, yea, the set time, is come. Ver. 13. _Thou shalt arise and have mercy upon Zion_] This he speaketh with as much confidence as...
_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...
Thou shalt arise, as one throwing off apparent indifference and lethargy, AND HAVE MERCY UPON ZION, upon His Church; FOR THE TIME TO FAVOR HER, to show her grace and kindness, YEA, THE SET TIME, that...
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...
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...
UPON ZION; upon Jerusalem, or thy church and people. THE SET TIME; the end of those seventy years which thou hast fixed; of which see JEREMIAH 25:12, JEREMIAH 29:10 DANIEL 9:2....
Psalms 102:13 arise H6965 (H8799) mercy H7355 (H8762) Zion H6726 time H6256 favor H2603 (H8800) time...
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...
_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...
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...
2 Peter 3:12; 2 Peter 3:8; Acts 1:7; Daniel 12:12; Daniel 12:13;...
The set time — The end of those seventy years which thou hast fixed....