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Scriptural Text [& Editorial]
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Commentary & Explanation
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Footnotes ~ References ~ JST
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CHAPTER 102
A prayer of the afflicted—Zion shall be built up when the Lord
appears in his glory—Though heaven and earth perish, the Lord who
created them shall endure forever.
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A Prayer of the afflicted, when he is overwhelmed, and poureth out
his complaint before the LORD.
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1 HEAR my prayer, O LORD, and let my cry come unto thee.
2 aHide not thy face from me in the
day when I am in trouble; incline thine ear unto me: in the day
when I call answer me speedily.
3 For my days are consumed like smoke, and my bones are burned as an hearth.
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4 My heart is smitten, and withered like grass; so that I forget to eat my bread.
5 By reason of the voice of my groaning my bones cleave to my skin.
6 I am like a apelican of the
wilderness: I am like an owl of the desert.
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7 I watch, and am as a sparrow alone upon the house top.
8 Mine enemies reproach me all the day; and they that are mad against me are sworn against me.
9 For I have eaten ashes like bread, and mingled my drink with weeping,
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10 Because of thine indignation and thy wrath: for thou hast lifted me up, and cast me down.
11 My days are like a
ashadow that declineth; and I am withered like
bgrass.
12 But thou, O LORD, shalt endure for
aever; and thy remembrance unto all generations.
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13 Thou shalt arise, and have
amercy upon bZion: for the time to favour
her, yea, the set time, is come.
14 For thy servants take pleasure in her stones, and favour the dust thereof.
15 So the heathen shall fear the name of the LORD, and all the kings of the earth thy glory.
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16 When the LORD shall build up Zion, he
shall aappear in his
glorya.
17 He will regard the
aprayer of the destitute, and not despise their prayer.
18 This shall be awritten
for the bgeneration to come: and the people which shall be
created shall praise the LORD.
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16a When the LORD shall build up Zion,
he shall appear in his glory Here are some presumptions which this
scriptural statement makes. If there is a time that the LORD shall appear in
his glory being set forth, there is indirectly a unspoken statement which
parallel's and counters coming in glory, that the LORD would come at some
time not in glory but as one not of glory. This we know and see, that once
he came as a lowly shepherd and not as a glorious king. He so condescended to
come to earth to die for the sins of the world as the suffering Messiah. It
would be at that coming of lowliness that he would not merely 'appear' in a
state of maturity and glory, but be born as one among us, immanuel, to grow
from grace to grace to lay the foundations of gathering his sheep. And from
that foundation would Zion be built in the latter days. And when Zion of that
day shall be build up, then the LORD would then suddenly appear in his
fulness and materity as the King of Israel, heaven and earth.
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19 For he hath looked down from the height of his sanctuary; from heaven did the LORD behold the earth;
20 To hear the groaning of the prisoner; to loose those that are appointed to death;
21 To declare the name of the LORD in Zion, and his praise in Jerusalem;
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22 When the people are gathered together, and the kingdoms, to serve the LORD.
23 He weakened my strength in the way; he shortened my days.
24 I said, O my God, take me not away in the midst of my days: thy years are throughout all generations.
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25 Of old hast thou laid the foundation of the
aearth: and the heavens are the work of thy
hands.
26 They shall aperish, but
thou shalt endure: yea, all of them shall wax old like a garment; as a
vesture shalt thou change them, and they shall be changed:
27 But thou art the
asame, and thy years shall have no
bend.
28 The children of thy servants shall
continue, and their aseed shall be established before
thee.
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