Psalms 102:1,2 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

From the authority of the Holy Ghost, in having caused his servant, the apostle Paul, to quote a portion of this psalm, in his first chapter of his Epistle to the Hebrews, in direct reference to the person of Christ, it is plain, that the church now, as the Apostle did then, ought to be always upon the look-out for Jesus in every part of Scripture. For my own part, when I consider Christ as our Head and Surety, who in all our affliction was afflicted; and when I hear the strong cries of Jesus in the days of his flesh, and connect with it the cause, I find it profitable to consider him going before, in all the tribulated path of sorrow, and to behold him, who endured such a contradiction of sinners against himself; as the best method to avoid being wearied, and faint in my mind. As such, I read this psalm, first, with reference to the person of Jesus; and then, as, in Him, forming a suitable form of words to approach God in Christ, at a mercy-seat, in seasons of soul exercises and trouble. Hebrews 12:3.