Psalms 102:19-22 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

For he hath looked down Namely, upon us, and not as an idle spectator, but with an eye of pity and relief; from the height of his sanctuary From his higher or upper sanctuary, namely, heaven, as the next clause explains it, which is called, God's high and holy place, Isaiah 57:15. To loose those that are appointed to death To release his poor captives out of Babylon, and, which is more, to deliver mankind from the chains and fetters of sin and Satan, and from eternal destruction. To declare the name of the Lord, &c. That they, being delivered, might publish and celebrate the name and praises of God in his church. When the people are gathered together, &c. When the Gentiles shall gather themselves to the Jews, and join with them in the praise and worship of the true God, and of the Messiah. This verse seems to be added to intimate, that although the psalmist, in this Psalm, referred to the deliverance of the Jews out of Babylon, yet he had a further design, and a principal respect unto that great and more general deliverance of his church and people by Christ.