“ Hear my prayer, O LORD, and let my cry come unto thee. ”
Hear my prayer, O Lord - The prayer which I offer in view of my personal trials; the prayer which I offer as one of an afflicted people. Compare Psalms 4:1 ; Psalms 17:1 ; Psalms 18:6 . And...
"A Prayer (a) of the afflicted, when he is overwhelmed, and poureth out his complaint before the LORD." Hear my prayer, O LORD, and let my (b) cry come unto thee. (a) By which is signified, that eve...
CII. The title, which is unique in the Psalter, describes the contents of Psalms 102:1-11 very well. So far the Ps. is the prayer of a man in extreme affliction. The same may be said of Psalms 1...
Title.. Prayer, &c. This refers to Messiah ' . humiliation. before. See note on "presence" ( Psalms 95:2 ). LORD. Hebrew. Jehovah. App-4. face. See note on "presence" ( Psalms 95:2...
1 O Jehovah! hear my prayer This earnestness shows, again, that these words were not dictated to be pronounced by the careless and light-hearted, which could not have been done without gross...
A Prayer of the afflicted, when he is overwhelmed, and poureth out his complaint before the LORD. Hear my prayer, O LORD, and let my cry come unto thee. Hear my prayer - The chief parts of the Psalm...
The Prophet in his prayer maketh a grievous complaint: he taketh comfort in the eternity and mercy of God. The mercies of God are to be recorded: he sustaineth his weakness by the unchangeableness o...
Hear my prayer, O LORD, and let my cry come unto thee. Psalms 102:1-28 -Hear my cry for my trouble needs immediate relief ( Psalms 102:1-5 ); I am like a lonely bird, my being cast down afte...
This Ps. belongs to the closing days of the exile, and utters the hope of Israel's restoration ( Psalms 102:13-22 ). The Psalmist has been supposed by some to speak simply in the name of the nation,...
Prayer. — Like love and all emotion, prayer has its own language, and this assumes here the forms of expression that meet us in other psalms. (See, e.g., in addition to the reference in margin,...
Psalms 102:1-28 Psalms 102:13-14 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...
the Cry of the Afflicted Psalms 102:1-11 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 ce...
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 tho...
CONTENTS The Psalmist is here engaged in prayer. We find much that clearly refers to the person of Christ. The sorrows expressed, considered with reference to him, are very striking: and the refuge...
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...
Psalms 102:1 «A Prayer of the afflicted, when he is overwhelmed, and poureth out his complaint before the LORD. » Hear my prayer, O LORD, and let my cry come unto thee. A Prayer of the afflicted...
Title. A prayer of the afflicted , &c. It was composed by one who was himself afflicted, afflicted with the church of God, and for it; and it is calculated for an afflicted state, and intended f...
Complaints in Affliction. A prayer of the afflicted, when he is overwhelmed, and poureth out his complaint before the Lord....
PSALM 102 This Psalm contains a form of prayer and expostulation with God, composed for the use of all true Israelites, in the name and behalf of their mother the church of Israel. It seems to have...
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, esp...
Hear my prayer, O Lord The references of ( Psalms 102:25-27 ) to Christ ( Hebrews 1:10-12 ) assures us that in the preceding verses of Psalm 102 we have, prophetically, the exercises of His ho...
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 charge...
It appears from Psalms 102:13-16 , 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 s...
Hear my prayer, O Lord, and let my cry come unto Thee. Thoughts of comfort and complaint I. Thoughts of complaint ( Psalms 102:1-11 ). 1. Concerning bodily sufferings. (1) The physical an...
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...
Hear my prayer, O Lord, the Jehovah here named being the second person of the Godhead, as He was known and worshiped in the Old Testament also, Hebrews 1:10-12 , and let my cry come unto Thee, by...
1 Samuel 9:16 ; 2 Chronicles 30:27 ; Exodus 2:23 ; Judges 10:16 ; Lamentations 3:44 ; Lamentations 3:8 ; Psalms 130:1 ; Psalms 130:2 ; Psalms 143:7 ; Psalms 145:19 ; Psalms 18:6 ; Psalms...