Geneva Study Bible Commentary
Psalms 102:8
Mine enemies reproach me all the day; [and] they that are mad against me are (f) sworn against me.
(f) Have conspired my death.
Mine enemies reproach me all the day; [and] they that are mad against me are (f) sworn against me.
(f) Have conspired my death.
Verse Psalms 102:8. _THEY THAT ARE MAD AGAINST ME ARE SWORN AGAINST ME._] The Chaldeans are determined to destroy us; and they have bound themselves _by oath_ to do it. See a similar case related Act...
MINE ENEMIES REPROACH ME ALL THE DAY - Continually. They reproach me as one of thy people; or, I bear reproaches in common with others, and it becomes to me a personal matter, so entirely are my feeli...
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...
ARE SWORN AGAINST ME. are sworn [together] against me; as in Acts 23:12....
AND THEY THAT ARE MAD AGAINST ME, &C.— _And my slanderers,_ &c. Mudge renders, _And in their madness swear against me;_ and Green, _The insolent boasters use my name in their oaths:_ Psalms 102:9. _Be...
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
Mine enemies reproach me all the day; and they that are mad against me are sworn against me. MINE ENEMIES REPROACH ME - (Psalms 42:10.) THEY THAT ARE MAD AGAINST ME - (Acts 26:11;...
ARE SWORN AGAINST ME] RV 'do curse by me,' the literal meaning of 'execrate.'...
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". ...
SWORN AGAINST ME. — Rather, _swear by_ me, _i.e.,_ make his name a byeword of execration, to be explained by Isaiah 65:15; Jeremiah 29:22. LXX. and Vulg., “were swearing against me.”...
_[Psalms 102:9]_ כָּל ־הַ֭ יֹּום חֵרְפ֣וּנִי אֹויְבָ֑י...
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...
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...
8._My enemies have reviled me daily _The faithful, to excite the compassion of God towards them, tell him that they are not only objects of mockery to their enemies, but also that they swore by them....
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...
MINE ENEMIES REPROACH ME ALL THE DAY,.... For his principles and practices, being different from theirs; for his religion, and preciseness in it; for his faith and profession of it, and for his holy w...
_Mine enemies reproach me all the day; [and] they that are mad against me are sworn against me._ Ver. 8. _Mine enemies reproach me all the day_] This is an evil that man's nature is most impatient wi...
Psa. 40:6-8. "Sacrifice and offering thou didst not desire; mine ears hast thou opened (or bored): burnt-offering and sin-offering hast thou not required. Then said I, Lo, I come: in the volume of the...
_Mine enemies reproach me all the day_ This my misery hath exposed me to the scorn of mine enemies, who do nothing but upbraid me with my calamities. _And they that are mad against me_ Or, _my slander...
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...
Mine enemies reproach me all the day, mocking him as one forsaken of God; AND THEY THAT ARE MAD AGAINST ME, being filled with rage and fury, ARE SWORN AGAINST ME, making his name a byword, accompanyin...
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...
Or, and _being mad or enraged at or against me, they swear against me_; they swear they will do me yet more mischief: or, they swear by me; they make use of my name and misery in their forms of sweari...
Psalms 102:8 enemies H341 (H8802) reproach H2778 (H8765) day H3117 deride H1984 (H8781) oath H765
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...
Acts 23:12; Acts 26:11; Acts 7:54; Luke 6:11; Psalms 2:1;...