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John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
INTRODUCTION TO Psalms 102 A prayer of the afflicted, when he is overwhelmed, and poureth out his complaint before the Lord; Whether this psalm was written by David, under a prophetic spirit, concerning future times; or whether by one of the Babylonish captivity, as Daniel, Nehemiah, Ezra, or any other; either just at the close of it, or upon...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Hear my prayer, O Lord,.... The prayer of a poor, destitute, and afflicted one; his own, and not another's; not what was composed for him, but composed by him; which came out of his own heart, and out of unfeigned lips, and expressed under a feeling sense of his own wants and troubles; and though dictated and inwrought in his heart by the Spirit...
Matthew Henry - Complete Commentary - Matthew Henry
Some think that David penned this psalm at the time of Absalom's rebellion; others that Daniel, Nehemiah, or some other prophet, penned it for the use of the church, when it was in captivity in Babylon, because it seems to speak of the ruin of Zion and of a time set for the rebuilding of it, which Daniel understood by books, Dan. ix. 2. Or perhaps...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
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; “For that would make my trouble to be unbearable.” “That were a grief I could not bear Didst thou not hear and answer prayer.”
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
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. Sincere suppliants are not content with praying for praying’s sake, they desire really to reach the ear and heart of Jehovah: “Hear my prayer, O Lord, and let my cry...
Spurgeon - Treasury of David - Charles H. Spurgeon
Ver. 1. Hear my prayer, O LORD. Or O JEHOVAH. Sincere supplicants are not content with praying for praying's sake, they desire really to reach the ear and heart of the great God. It is a great relief in time of distress to acquaint others with our trouble, we are eased by their hearing our lamentation, but it is the sweetest solace of all to have...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Hide not thy face from me in the day when I am in trouble,.... Thy Shechinah, as the Targum: when God hides his face at any time from his people, it is a trouble to them, and very grievous; but especially when they are in any other trouble besides; it is very afflicting, indeed, when to their outward trouble this is added, which was Job's case,...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Incline thine ear unto me: “Stoop down to me; bend over me; listen to the moanings of my darkness, the whispers of my weakness.” Psa_102:2. In the day when I call answer me speedily. “For I am brought so low that, if a delay be not a denial, it will be tantamount to it, for I shall be dead before the answer comes unless it reaches me speedily.”
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
For my days are consumed like smoke,.... Which suddenly rises up, is easily dissipated, and quickly disappears; so sudden, short, and transient, are the days of man's life; see James 4:14 or "in smoke" (c), as the Syriac version; his days were spent in great obscurity, in the darkness of affliction, temptation, and desertion; and in so much...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For my days are consumed like smoke, and my bones are burned as an hearth. My heart is smitten, and withered like grass; so that I forget to eat my bread. That is a very pitiful state for anyone to be brought into, in which the sorrow of the mind begins to weaken the strength of the body; the soul itself is so inflamed that a fever is generated...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For my days are consumed like smoke, and my bones are burned as an hearth. My heart is smitten, and withered like grass; so that I forget to eat my bread. By reason of the voice of my groaning my bones cleave to my skin. I am like a pelican of the wilderness: I am like an owl of the desert. I watch, and am as a sparrow alone upon the house top....
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
My heart is smitten, and withered like grass,.... Like grass in the summer solstice (d), which being smitten with the heat of the sun, or by some blast of thunder and lightning, is dried up, and withers away; so his heart was smitten with a sense of sin, and of God's wrath and displeasure at him, and with the heat of affliction and trouble, that...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
By reason of the voice of my groaning,.... Under the burden of sin, and pressure of afflictions: my bones cleave to my skin; was quite emaciated, reduced to a skeleton, became nothing but skin and bone (e); which sometimes is occasioned, as by outward afflictions, so by soul troubles: or "to my flesh" (f); flesh is put for skin; see Job 19:20. (e)...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
By reason of the voice of my groaning my bones cleave to my skin. By grief, he had brought himself down to such an emaciated state that his bones pierced through his skin.
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
I am like a pelican of the wilderness,.... It may be so called, to distinguish it from another of the same name that lives upon the waters; which has the name of "pelican" in the Greek tongue, as is said, from its smiting and piercing its breast, and letting out blood for the reviving of its young; and in the Hebrew language, from its vomiting...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I am like the pelican of the wilderness: I am like an owl of the desert. I watch, and am as a sparrow alone upon the house top. He had got into such a melancholy state of mind that he shunned human company, sought solitude, and became as mournful a creature as “an owl of the desert.”
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
I watch,.... Night after night, and take no sleep; cannot get any by reason of thoughtfulness, care, and trouble: and am as a sparrow alone upon the housetop; or, "as a bird" (o); for there is no necessity of limiting it to a sparrow, to which the account does not seem so well to agree; for sparrows will not only perch on housetops and solitary...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
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 walk and conversation. Good men have their enemies, and always had; but then they are such who are also enemies to God and Christ, and true religion;...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Mine enemies reproach me all the day; and they that are mad against me are sworn against me. For I have eaten ashes like bread, and mingled my drink with weeping, because of thine indignation and thy wrath: for thou hast lifted me up, and cast me down. Observe that all David’s enemies could not make him weep. Mad as they were against him, they...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Mine enemies reproach me all the day; and they that are mad against me are sworn against me. Their rage was unrelenting and unceasing, and vented itself in taunts and insults. With his inward sorrows and outward persecutions, the psalmist was in as ill a plight as may well be conceived.