“ My days are like a shadow that declineth; and I am withered like grass. ”
My days are like a shadow that declineth - The shadow made by the gnomon on a sun-dial, which marks the hours as they pass. See 2 Kings 20:10 . The idea is that the shadow made by the descending...
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...
11. My days are like the shadow which declineth (146) When the sun is directly over our heads, that is to say, at mid-day, we do not observe such sudden changes of the shadows which his lig...
My days are like a shadow that declineth; and I am withered like grass. My days are like a shadow that declineth - Or rather, My days decline like the shadow. I have passed my meridian, and the sun...
My days are like a shadow that declineth— My days are as a shadow which is gone down. The shadow which is gone down, seems not so much to describe a common shadow, as the shadow of a dial; which...
My days are like a shadow that declineth; and I am withered like grass. -In contrast to his own frailty, the Psalmist finds that consolation in God's abiding character which assures him that G...
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,...
A shadow that declineth. — Rather, a lengthening shadow, growing longer as the day declines, and therefore soon to vanish altogether. (Comp. Psalms 109:23 .) “And now the sun had stretched out...
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...
I make no chasm in the reading of these verses, because they form together a complete detail of the state of the sufferer, and serve the better, in an united point of view, to interest our hearts in...
My days are like a shadow that declineth ,.... Or, "that is stretched out" s, which, though it may appear long, is soon at an end; as it does appear longer when the sun sets t, and departs from the...
My days [are] like a shadow that declineth; and I am withered like grass. Ver. 11. My days are like a shadow that declineth ] As at sunset the shadows are at longest, but not longlasting. And I...
My days are like a shadow Which “never continueth in one stay, but is still gliding imperceptibly on, lengthening as it goes, and at last vanisheth into darkness. The period of its existence is lim...
Complaints in Affliction. A prayer of the afflicted, when he is overwhelmed, and poureth out his complaint before the Lord....
My days; my hopes, and comforts, and happiness; days being oft put for happy days, or a happy state, as Psalms 37:18 Lamentations 5:21 , as elsewhere they are put more generally for the even...
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...
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...
Complaint of One in Great Trouble. A prayer of the afflicted, one in great misery and distress, when he is overwhelmed, Psalms 61:2 , and poureth out his complaint, as from an inverted vessel, in...
1 Peter 1:24 ; Ecclesiastes 6:12 ; Isaiah 40:6-8 ; James 1:10 ; James 4:14 ; Job 14:2 ; Psalms 102:3 ; Psalms 102:4 ; Psalms 109:23 ; Psalms 144:4 ; Psalms 39:5 ; Psalms 39:6