Psalms 102:9

Isaiah 44:20; Job 3:24; Lamentations 3:15; Lamentations 3:16; Lamentations 3:48; Lamentations 3:49; Micah 1:10; Micah 7:17; Psalms 42:3; Psalms 80:5; Psalms 69:21

Related Commentaries of Psalms 102:9

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

For I have eaten ashes like bread - I have seated myself in ashes in my grief (compare Job 2:8 ; Job 42:6 ; Isaiah 58:5 ; Isaiah 61:3 ; Jona...
Arno Geneva Study Bible

For I have (g) eaten ashes like bread, and mingled my drink with weeping, (g) I have not risen out of my mourning to take my refreshment.
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 ext...
Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

9 For I have eaten ashes like bread Some think that the order is here inverted, and that the letter כ, caph, the sign of similitude, whi...
Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

For I have eaten ashes like bread, and mingled my drink with weeping, I have eaten ashes like bread - Fearful of what they might do, we all humbled o...
Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

For I have eaten ashes— The serpent in Genesis is condemned to go on his belly, and to eat dust, to which his prone posture inevitably subjects him...
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

For I have eaten ashes like bread, and mingled my drink with weeping, For I have eaten ashes like bread. The "For" introduces the ground upon...
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 b...
Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Ashes like bread. — Lamentations 3:16 . A figurative expression, like “dust shall be the serpent’s meat” ( Isaiah 65:25 ; comp. Genesis 3:14 ). W...
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 wi...
Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

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...
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 whi...
Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

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 a...
John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

For I have eaten ashes like bread ,.... He sitting in ashes, as Job did, and rolling himself in them in the manner of mourners; and, having no other...
John Trapp Complete Commentary

For I have eaten ashes like bread, and mingled my drink with weeping, Ver. 9. For I have eaten ashes like bread ] Being cast on the ground as a mo...
Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

I have eaten ashes like bread That is, instead of eating my bread, I have laid down in dust and ashes. Or, dust and ashes are as constant and famil...
Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Complaints in Affliction. A prayer of the afflicted, when he is overwhelmed...
Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

For; so this verse gives a reason either of his great sadness, expressed Psalms 102:6,7 , or why they swore by him in the sense last given. Or,...
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 com...
Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

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...
Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Psalms 102:1-19 . Hear my prayer, O LORD, and let my cry come unto thee. Hide not thy face from me in the day when I am in trouble; incline thine e...
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 t...
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. Co...
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 be...
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...
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

For I have eaten ashes like bread, sitting in them as a sign of great mourning and strewing them upon his head and garments, and mingled my drink wi...
Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Bread — The sense is, dust and ashes are as familiar to me as the eating of my bread; I cover my head with them; I sit, yea, lie down in them, as m...

⁹ For I have eaten ashes like bread, and mingled my drink with weeping,

Related Commentaries of Psalms 102:9

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Arno Geneva Study Bible

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

John Trapp Complete Commentary

Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

The Biblical Illustrator

The Complete Pulpit Commentary

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Wesley's Explanatory Notes

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