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Scott's Reference Library
Psalm 102:12 through Psalm 102:28 (NIV)
12 But you, O LORD, sit enthroned forever;
your renown endures through all generations.
13 You will arise and have compassion on Zion,
for it is time to show favor to her;
the appointed time has come.
14 For her stones are dear to your servants;
her very dust moves them to pity.
15 The nations will fear the name of the LORD,
all the kings of the earth will revere your glory.
16 For the LORD will rebuild Zion
and appear in his glory.
17 He will respond to the prayer of the destitute;
he will not despise their plea.
18 Let this be written for a future generation,
that a people not yet created may praise the LORD:
19 “The LORD looked down from his sanctuary on high,
from heaven he viewed the earth,
20 to hear the groans of the prisoners
and release those condemned to death.”
21 So the name of the LORD will be declared in Zion
and his praise in Jerusalem
22 when the peoples and the kingdoms
assemble to worship the LORD.
23 In the course of my life he broke my strength;
he cut short my days.
24 So I said:
“Do not take me away, O my God, in the midst of my days;
your years go on through all generations.
25 In the beginning you laid the foundations of the earth,
and the heavens are the work of your hands.
26 They will perish, but you remain;
they will all wear out like a garment.
Like clothing you will change them
and they will be discarded.
27 But you remain the same,
and your years will never end.
28 The children of your servants will live in your presence;
their descendants will be established before you.”
Matthew Henry’s Concise Commentary on the Whole Bible
VERSES 12-22
We are dying creatures, but God is an everlasting God, the protector of his
church; we may be confident that it will not be neglected. When we consider our
own vileness, our darkness and deadness, and the manifold defects in our
prayers, we have cause to fear that they will not be received in heaven; but we
are here assured of the contrary, for we have an Advocate with the Father, and
are under grace, not under the law. Redemption is the subject of praise in the
Christian church; and that great work is described by the temporal deliverance
and restoration of Israel. Look down upon us, Lord Jesus; and bring us into the
glorious liberty of thy children, that we may bless and praise thy name.
VERSES 23-28
Bodily distempers soon weaken our strength, then what can we expect but that our
months should be cut off in the midst; and what should we do but provide
accordingly? We must own God’s hand in it; and must reconcile this to his love,
for often those that have used their strength well, have it weakened; and those
who, as we think, can very ill be spared, have their days shortened. It is very
comfortable, in reference to all the changes and dangers of the church, to
remember that Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, to-day, and for ever. And in
reference to the death of our bodies, and the removal of friends, to remember
that God is an everlasting God. Do not let us overlook the assurance this psalm
contains of a happy end to all the believer’s trials. Though all things are
changing, dying, perishing, like a vesture folding up and hastening to decay,
yet Jesus lives, and thus all is secure, for he hath said, Because I live ye
shall live also.
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