Psalm 102:19-26 NIV

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Psalms 102:12-22

Many exceedingly great and precious comforts are here thought of, and mustered up, to balance the foregoing complaints; for unto the upright there arises light in the darkness, so that, though they are cast down, they are not in despair. It is bad with the psalmist himself, bad with the people of God; but he has many considerations to revive himself with. I. We are dying creatures, and our interests and comforts are dying, but God is an everliving everlasting God (Ps. 102:12): ?My days are... read more

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Psalms 102:23-28

We may here observe, I. The imminent danger that the Jewish church was in of being quite extirpated and cut off by the captivity in Babylon (Ps. 102:23): He weakened my strength in the way. They were for many ages in the way to the performance of the great promise made to their fathers concerning the Messiah, longing as much for it as ever a traveller did to be at his journey's end. The legal institutions l 241c ed them in the way; but when the ten tribes were lost in Assyria, and the two... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Psalms 102:19

For he hath looked down from the height of his sanctuary ,.... From heaven, as it is explained in the next clause, which is the Lord's sanctuary, or holy place, where he dwells, even in the height of it; it is both high and holy, as he himself is; yet he condescends to look down from thence on sinful mortals: from heaven did the Lord behold the earth ; the inhabitants of it, good and bad: it designs the general notice he takes of men and things in a providential way; he beholds the... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Psalms 102:20

To hear the groanings of the prisoner ,.... Not of a single person only, but of many, who lie in prisons in Popish countries, especially in the Inquisition; where they lie and groan, in darkness and misery, under dreadful tortures; their cries and groans the Lord hears; his heart yearns towards them; he looks with pity on them; and, because of the sighing of these poor and needy ones, he will arise in due time, and set them in safety from him that puffs at them: it is true also of such who... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Psalms 102:21

To declare the name of the Lord in Zion ,.... That is, that the prisoners and persons appointed to death, being loosed, might declare, in the church, what great things the Lord has done for them; and so speak well of his wisdom, power, grace, and goodness, in their deliverance; profess his name, and confess him before men, and express a value for his name, and show forth the honour of it, and seek his glory: and his praise in Jerusalem ; the Gospel church state, the same with Zion; when... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Psalms 102:22

When the people are gathered together ,.... When the people of the Jews shall be gathered together, and seek the Lord their God, and David their King, the Messiah, and appoint them one head, even Christ; and when the Gentiles shall gather together, in great numbers, to the church of God, Hosea 1:11 , and the kingdoms to serve the Lord ; even the kingdoms of this world, which will become his, and will serve him in righteousness and holiness, freely and cheerfully, with one shoulder and... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Psalms 102:23

He weakened my strength in the way ,.... The psalmist here returns to his complaint of his afflictions, weakness, and frailty, which ended Psalm 102:11 , after which some hints are given of the latter day glory, which though he despaired of seeing, by reason of his frailty and mortality, yet comforts himself with the eternity and immutability of Christ, and that there would be a succession of the church, a seed of true believers, who would see and enjoy it: as for himself, he says that God... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Psalms 102:24

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, Psalm 55:23 , in the Hebrew it is, "cause me not to ascend" F6 אל תעלני "ne ascendere facias me", Montanus, Gejerus. ; either as smoke, which ascends, and vanishes away; or rather it designs the separation of the soul from the body at death, when it ascends upwards to God that gave it; so Aben Ezra... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Psalms 102:25

Of old hast thou laid the foundation of the earth ,.... The lower part of the creation, the Lord's footstool, called the earth beneath: this has its foundation; though what it is cannot be well said, it cannot be searched out; it is sometimes said to be founded upon the waters, and yet so as not to be removed for ever, Jeremiah 31:37 , this shows the wisdom of God, as a wise master builder, and the stability of the earth; and is a proof of the deity of Christ, to whom these words belong:... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Psalms 102:26

They shall perish ,.... Both the heavens and the earth, though so well founded, and so firmly made; they shall be dissolved, melt, and pass away; not as to the substance, but as to the quality of them: or, as R. Judah Ben David says, whom Aben Ezra on the place cites, and calls the first grammarian in the west, not as to generals, but as to particulars: but thou shalt endure ; as the eternal God, from everlasting to everlasting; and, even as man, he will die no more; and, as Mediator,... read more

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Psalms 102:12-22

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Psalms 102:23-28

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Psalms 102:19

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Psalms 102:20

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Psalms 102:21

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Psalms 102:22

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Psalms 102:23

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Psalms 102:24

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Psalms 102:25

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Psalms 102:26

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