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CHAP. CII.
1 The Prophet in his prayer maketh a grieuous complaint. 12 He taketh comfort in the eternitie and mercie of God. 18 The mercies of God are to be recorded. 23 He sustaineth his weakenesse by the vnchangeablenes of God.
3 For my dayes are consumed like smoke: and my bones are burnt as an hearth.3
4 My heart is smitten, and withered like grasse: so that I forget to eate my bread.
5 By reason of the voice of my groning, my bones cleaue to my skinne.5
6 I am like a Pelican of the wildernes: I am like an owle of the desert.
7 I watch, and am as a sparowe alone vpon the house top.
8 Mine enemies reproch me all the day: and they that are mad against me, are sworne against me.
9 For I haue eaten ashes like bread: and mingled my drinke with weeping.
10 Because of thine indignation and thy wrath: for thou hast lifted me vp, and cast me downe.
11 My dayes are like a shadow, that declineth: & I am withered like grasse.11
12 But thou, O Lord, shalt endure for euer: and thy remembrance vnto all generations.
13 Thou shalt arise, and haue mercie vpon Zion: for the time to fauour her, yea the set time is come.
14 For thy seruants take pleasure in her stones: and fauour the dust therof.
15 So the heathen shall feare the Name of the Lord: and all the kings of the earth thy glory.
16 When the Lord shall build vp Zion: he shall appeare in his glory.
17 He will regard the prayer of the destitute, and not despise their prayer.
20 To heare the groning of the prisoner: to loose those that are appointed to death:20
21 To declare the Name of the Lord in Zion: and his praise in Ierusalem:
22 When the people are gathered together: and the kingdomes to serue the Lord.
23 He weakened my strength in the way: he shortened my dayes.23
25 Of old hast thou laid the foundation of the earth: and the heauens are the worke of thy hands.25
26 They shall perish, but thou shalt indure, yea all of them shall waxe old like a garment: as a vesture shalt thou change them, and they shalbe changed.26
27 But thou art the same: and thy yeeres shall haue no end.
28 The children of thy seruants shal continue: and their seed shall be established before thee.
View Wesley's Notes for Psalms Chapter 102
102:3 An hearth - An hearth is heated or burnt by the coals which are laid upon it.
102:5 Skin - My flesh being quite consumed.
102:6 A pelican - Is a solitary and mournful bird.
102:9 Bread - The sense is, dust and ashes are as familiar to me as the eating of my bread; I cover my head with them; I sit, yea, lie down in them, as mourners often did.
102:10 Lifted me - As a man lifts up a thing as high as he can, that he may cast it to the ground with greater force.
102:12 Remembrance - Thy name, Jehovah, which is called by this very word, God's remembrance, or memorial, and that unto all generations, #Exod 3:15|.
102:13 The set time - The end of those seventy years which thou hast fixed.
102:18 This - This wonderful deliverance shall be carefully recorded by thy people.
102:19 Looked - From heaven.
102:20 To loose - To release his poor captives out of Babylon, and from the chains of sin and eternal destruction.
102:21 To declare - That they might publish the name and praises of God in his church.
102:22 When - When the Gentiles shall gather themselves to the Jews, and join with them in the worship of the true God.
102:23 He - God. The way - In the midst of the course of our lives. Some think the psalmist here speaks of the whole commonwealth as of one man, and of its continuance, as of the life of one man.
102:24 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 die, yet thou art the everlasting God.
102:26 Perish - As to their present nature and use.
102:28 Continue - Though the heavens and earth perish, yet we rest assured that our children, and their children after them, shall enjoy an happy restitution to, and settlement in their own land.
Psalms Chapter 102 Sidenote References (from Original 1611 KJV Bible):
3 Or, (as some reade) into smoke.
5 Or, flesh.
11 Esa.40.6. iam.1.10.
20 Heb. the children of death.
23 Heb. afflicted.
25 Heb.1.10
26 Heb. stand
* Courtesy of Rare Book and Manuscript Library, University of Pennsylvania
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