Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Psalms 102:20
To release his poor captives out of Babylon, and, which is more, from the chains and fetters of sin and Satan, and from eternal destruction. read more
Psalm 102:19-26 Niv
Matthew Poole
Matthew Poole
Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Psalms 102:21
That they being delivered might publish and celebrate the name and praises of God in his church. read more
Matthew Poole
Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Psalms 102:22
When the Gentiles shall gather themselves to the Jews, and join with them in the praise and worship of the true God, and of the Messias. This verse seems to be added to intimate, that although the psalmist in this Psalm respects the deliverance of the Jews out of Babylon, yet he had a further design and a principal respect unto that greater and more general deliverance of his church and people by the Messias. read more
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Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Psalms 102:23
He, to wit, God, to whom he ascribes these calamities, Psalms 102:10; to whom therefore he addresseth himself for relief. In the way; either, 1. In the midst of our expectations. Whilst we are expecting the accomplishment of thy promise, either of bringing us out of Babylon, or of sending the Messias, we faint, and one of us perish after another, and our hope is like the giving up of the ghost. Or rather, 2. In the midst of the course of our lives; which sense is confirmed, 1. From the... read more
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Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Psalms 102:24
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 especially of that great and fundamental promise of the Messias, in and by whom alone their happiness is to be completed, and until whose coming thy church is in its nonage; of which see Galatians 4:1-4. Possibly the psalmist (whom some learned interpreters suppose to be Daniel) may have respect to that... read more
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Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Psalms 102:25
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,Psalms 102:26,Psalms 102:27, the latter is clearly implied in this verse. Thou hadst a being before the creation of the world, when there was nothing but eternity, but the earth and heavens had a beginning given them by thy almighty power. read more
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Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Psalms 102:26
They shall perish; either, 1. As to the substance of them, which shall be annihilated. Or, 2. As to their present nature and use: see Isaiah 65:17; Isaiah 66:22; 2 Peter 3:7,2 Peter 3:10,2 Peter 3:11. The heavens and the earth, although they be the most permanent of all visible beings, and their continuance is oft mentioned to signify the stability and immutability of things, yet if compared with thee are as nothing; they had a beginning, and shall have an end. Wax old, i.e. decay and perish.... read more
Joseph Exell
Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Psalms 102:1-28
INTRODUCTIONIt 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, especially in Psalms 102:13-22, we should conclude that it was written during the Babylonian exile, and probably near its close, when the faithful were animated by hopes of returning shortly to their own land. It has been attributed to Nehemiah, Jeremiah, Daniel, and others of the prophets of the period... read more
William Nicoll
Sermon Bible Commentary - Psalms 102:24
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 days." Men in middle life are very apt to look upon death as an improbable event so far as they are concerned, and to make their calculations and shape their course accordingly. I. The reasons for this fact. (1) The man in middle life has reasons taken from his circumstances and relations which... read more
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Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Psalms 102:19
He hath looked down, to wit, upon us, not like an idle spectator, but with an eye of pity and relief, as the next verse declares. From the height of his sanctuary; from his higher or upper sanctuary, to wit, heaven, as the next clause explains it, which is called God’s high and holy place, Isaiah 57:15. read more