Psalms 102:24 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ I said, O my God, take me not away in the midst of my days: thy years are throughout all generations. ”

Psalms 102:24 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

I said, O my God, take me not away in the midst of my days - This was the burden of my prayer, for this I earnestly pleaded. See Psalms 30:9 ; Isaiah 38:1-3 , Isaiah 38:9-18 . The word used he...
Psalms 102:24 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

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...
Psalms 102:24 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

my GOD. Hebrew. Eli. my El. App-4.
Psalms 102:24 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

What then does the prophet mean when he prays, Let us not perish in the midst of our course? (160) The reason stated in the clause immediately following, Thy years are from generation to...
Psalms 102:24 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

I said, O my God, take me not away in the midst of my days: thy years are throughout all generations. I said, O my God - This and the following verses seem to be the form of prayer which the captiv...
Psalms 102:24 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

This shall be written for the generation to come: and the people which shall be created shall praise the LORD. -The generation to come shall praise the Lord for having loosed the groaning pris...
Psalms 102:24 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

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,...
Psalms 102:24 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Take me not away. — The fear of not living to see the restoration of his race prompts the psalmist to this prayer to the God whose years are not, like man’s, for one generation, but endure from age...
Psalms 102:24 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

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...
Psalms 102:24 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

the Time to Have Mercy upon Zion Psalms 102:12-28 We must remember that the Holy Spirit appropriates the closing words of this psalm as addressed to our Lord. See Hebrews 1:10-12 . This gives...
Psalms 102:24 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

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...
Psalms 102:24 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

I do not presume to say as much, but I would ask, is not this verse a prayer of Christ, as the Christ of God? Taking it in connection with what went before, God the Father is represented as beholding...
Psalms 102:24 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

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, Psalms 55:23 , in...
Psalms 102:24 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

I said, O my God, take me not away in the midst of my days: thy years [are] throughout all generations. Ver. 24. Take me not away in the midst of my days ] Heb. Make me not to ascend, Serus in...
Psalms 102:24 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

But, I said, O my God, take me not away , &c. I prayed most earnestly to him, and said, O my God , who hast so graciously begun our deliverance, take me not away before it be completely finishe...
Psalms 102:24 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Hoping in God's Compassion. 23 He weakened my strength in the way; he shortened my days. 24 I said, O my God, take me...
Psalms 102:24 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Take me not away; do not wholly cut off and destroy thy people of Israel. In the midst of my days; before they come to a full age and stature, and to the plenary possession of thy promises, and esp...
Psalms 102:24 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

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...
Psalms 102:24 - Sermon Bible Commentary

Psalms 102:24 The text is an earnest, impassioned prayer, a prayer against death; and the fact which gives it its earnestness and impassioned energy is that he who offers it is in "the midst of hi...
Psalms 102:24 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

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...
Psalms 102:24 - The Biblical Illustrator

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...
Psalms 102:24 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

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...
Psalms 102:24 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

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...
Psalms 102:24 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Habakkuk 1:12 ; Isaiah 38:10-22 ; Psalms 39:13 ; Psalms 102:12 ; Psalms 9:7 ; Psalms 90:1 ; Psalms 90:2 ; Revelation 1:4 ; Revelation 1:8
Psalms 102:24 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

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...

Psalms 102:24 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Psalms 102:24 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Psalms 102:24 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Psalms 102:24 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Psalms 102:24 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Psalms 102:24 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Psalms 102:24 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Psalms 102:24 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Psalms 102:24 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Psalms 102:24 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Psalms 102:24 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Psalms 102:24 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Psalms 102:24 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Psalms 102:24 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Psalms 102:24 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Psalms 102:24 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Psalms 102:24 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Psalms 102:24 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Psalms 102:24 - Sermon Bible Commentary

Psalms 102:24 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Psalms 102:24 - The Biblical Illustrator

Psalms 102:24 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Psalms 102:24 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Psalms 102:24 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Psalms 102:24 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes