Take me not away. — The fear of not living to see the restoration of his race prompts the psalmist to this prayer to the God whose years are not, like man’s, for one generation, but endure from age to age.
Verse Psalms 102:24. _I SAID, O MY GOD_] This and the following verses seem to be the _form of prayer_ which the captives used previously to their deliverance. _THY YEARS_ ARE _THROUGHOUT ALL GENERA...
I SAID, O MY GOD, TAKE ME NOT AWAY IN THE MIDST OF MY DAYS - This was the burden of my prayer, for this I earnestly pleaded. See Psalms 30:9; Isaiah 38:1, Isaiah 38:9. The word used here means “to cau...
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...
MY GOD. Hebrew. _Eli. my_ El. App-4....
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...
102:24 generation. (f-22) Lit. 'in generation of generations.' see Psalms 72:5 ....
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". ...
_[Psalms 102:25]_ אֹמַ֗ר אֵלִ֗י אַֽל ־תַּ֭עֲלֵנִי בַּ...
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...
I do not presume to say as much, but I would ask, is not this verse a prayer of Christ, as the Christ of God? Taking it in connection with what went before, God the Father is represented as beholding...
What then does the prophet mean when he prays, _Let us not perish in the midst of our course? _(160) The reason stated in the clause immediately following, _Thy years are from generation to generation...
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...
I SAID, O MY GOD, TAKE ME NOT AWAY IN THE MIDST OF MY DAYS;.... Which was always reckoned as a judgment, as a token of God's sore displeasure, and as what only befell wicked men, Psalms 55:23, in the...
_I said, O my God, take me not away in the midst of my days: thy years [are] throughout all generations._ Ver. 24. _Take me not away in the midst of my days_] Heb. Make me not to ascend, _Serus in co...
But, _I said, O my God, take me not away_, &c. I prayed most earnestly to him, and said, _O my God_, who hast so graciously begun our deliverance, take me not away before it be completely finished, bu...
I said, O my God, take me not away in the midst of my days, death before the fulfillment of the average allotted life being considered a particularly severe punishment of the Lord; THY YEARS ARE THROU...
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...
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...
TAKE ME NOT AWAY; do not wholly cut off and destroy thy people of Israel. In the midst of my days; before they come to a full age and stature, and to the plenary possession of thy promises, and especi...
Psalms 102:24 said H559 (H8799) God H410 away H5927 (H8686) midst H2677 days H3117 years H8141 all...
Psalms 102:24 The text is an earnest, impassioned prayer, a prayer against death; and the fact which gives it its earnestness and impassioned energy is that he who offers it is in "the midst of his d...
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...
_I said, O my God, take me not away in the midst of my days: Thy years are throughout all generations._ THE DEATH OF GOOD MEN, IN THE MIDST OF THEIR DAYS, CONSIDERED AND IMPROVED I. The reasons of t...
_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 102:23 The person who feels what vv. Psalms 102:3 describes is keenly aware of his own mortality. It seems like the troubles will shorten his life even further. The prayer is
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...
Habakkuk 1:12; Isaiah 38:10; Psalms 39:13; Psalms 102:12; Psalms 9:7
I said — Do not wholly destroy thy people Israel. In the midst — Before they come to a full possession of thy promises and especially of that fundamental promise of the Messiah. Thy years — Though we...