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Verse Psalms 102:3. _MY DAYS ARE CONSUMED LIKE SMOKE_] He represents
himself (for the psalmist speaks in the name of the people) under the
notion of a _pile of combustible matter_, placed upon a _fir...
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FOR MY DAYS ARE CONSUMED LIKE SMOKE - Margin, “into smoke.”
Literally, “in smoke.” That is, They vanish as smoke; they pass
away and become nothing; they are spent in affliction, and seem to
accomplis...
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Psalms 102
Christ the King in His Humiliation
_ 1. In the place of humiliation and dependence (Psalms 102:1)_
2. His enemies (Psalms 102:8)
3. The set time for Zion ...
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CII. The title, which is unique in the Psalter, describes the contents
of Psalms 102:1 very well. So far the Ps. is the prayer of a man in
extreme affliction. The same may be said of Psalms 102:23 and...
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LIKE SMOKE. So some codices, with Aramaean, Septuagint, and Vulgate;
other codices read "in smoke".
AN HEARTH. charred wood....
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FOR MY DAYS ARE CONSUMED LIKE SMOKE— Or, according to the original
בעשׁן _beashan, in smoke._ "My afflictions have had the same
effect upon me, as smoke has on things which are hung up in it; i.e.
hav...
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PSALMS 102
DESCRIPTIVE TITLE
The Prayer of a Humbled One brings a Threefold Answer of Peace.
ANALYSIS
Stanza I., Psalms 102:1-11, A Humbled One's Complaint. Stanza II.,
Psalms 102:12-17
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For my days are consumed like smoke, and my bones are burned as an
hearth.
FOR MY DAYS ARE CONSUMED LIKE SMOKE - or, as Hebrew-literally, 'in
(into) smoke.' The very same expression which David in...
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LIKE SMOKE] RM 'in smoke.' AN HEARTH] RV 'a firebrand.'...
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This Ps. belongs to the closing days of the exile, and utters the hope
of Israel's restoration (Psalms 102:13). The Psalmist has been
supposed by some to speak simply in the name of the nation, but it...
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Psalms 90:106
_GORDON CHURCHYARD_
A YOUNG MAN WITH TROUBLE
PSALMS 102
Jesus said, "Do not let trouble stay in your mind. *Believe in God
and believe in me also". ...
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LIKE SMOKE. — Or, _in smoke._ (See margin. Comp. Psalms 37:20.)
HEARTH. — Better, a _brand_ or _fuel;_ so LXX. and Vulgate, Aquila,
and this meaning suits Isaiah 33:14. (For the image see Psalms 22:15...
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_[Psalms 102:4]_ כִּֽי ־כָל֣וּ בְ עָשָׁ֣ן
יָמָ֑י...
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Psalms 102:1
Psalms 102:13 show that the psalm was written when Zion was in ruins
and the time of her restoration at hand. Sadness shot with hope, as a
cloud with sunlight, is the singer's mood. The p...
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THE CRY OF THE AFFLICTED
Psalms 102:1
This is the fifth of the Penitential Psalms. Some hold that it is one
of the later psalms, asking for deliverance from captivity; others,
emphasizing certain Dav...
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This is a song of faith triumphing over affliction. Beginning with a
prayer for deliverance, and a statement of the circumstances of
suffering in which he then was, together with a recognition of thos...
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For my days are (c) consumed like smoke, and my bones are burned as an
hearth.
(c) These excessive kinds of speech show how much the affliction of
the Church should wound the hearts of the godly....
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_Diseases. He had described captivity as an illness, Psalm ci.
(Calmet) --- God graciously forgives sin, and removes bad habits. He
preserves us from falling, and grants us the victory, with all our
r...
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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 an united point of view, to interest our hearts in t...
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3_For my days are consumed like smoke _These expressions are
hyperbolical, but still they show how deeply the desolation of the
Church ought to wound the hearts of the people of God. Let every man,
th...
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Psalms 102 is one of the most, perhaps the most, remarkable of all the
psalms, and presents Christ in a way divinely admirable. Verse 10
(Psalms 102:10) gives the occasion of the cry with which the ps...
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FOR MY DAYS ARE CONSUMED LIKE SMOKE,.... Which suddenly rises up, is
easily dissipated, and quickly disappears; so sudden, short, and
transient, are the days of man's life; see James 4:14 or "in smoke...
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For my days are consumed like smoke, and my bones are burned as an
hearth.
Ver. 3. _For my days are consumed like smoke_] Which the higher it
mounteth the sooner it vanisheth. Some read it, in the sm...
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Title. _A prayer of the afflicted_, &c. It was composed by one who was
himself afflicted, afflicted with the church of God, and for it; and
it is calculated for an afflicted state, and intended for th...
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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 out his complaint, as from an
inverted vessel, in a fu...
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For my days are consumed like smoke, which passes upward and
disappears, AND MY BONES ARE BURNED AS AN HEARTH, the heat of fever
glowing in his members and consuming him as the fuel on the hearth is
c...
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LIKE SMOKE:
Or, (as some read) into smoke...
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1-11 The whole word of God is of use to direct us in prayer; but
here, is often elsewhere, the Holy Ghost has put words into our
mouths. Here is a prayer put into the hands of the afflicted; let them...
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LIKE SMOKE; which passeth away in obscurity, and swiftly, and
irrecoverably. Or, _into smoke_; as wood or any combustible matter put
into the fire wasteth away in smoke and ashes. MY BONES; the most
s...
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Psalms 102:1. _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 ear unto me: in the day when I call answer me speedily._...
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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 attention to it in order to remind you what charges...
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CONTENTS: Sorrowful complaint of great afflictions and a believing
prospect of deliverance.
CHARACTERS: God, Psalmist.
CONCLUSION: The greatest ease to an afflicted spirit is to unburden
itself by a...
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It appears from Psalms 102:13, that this psalm was written in Babylon,
and near the time of the Jewish emancipation. It is highly prophetic
of the greater deliverance by the Messiah, whose law should...
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_Hear my prayer, O Lord, and let my cry come unto Thee._
THOUGHTS OF COMFORT AND COMPLAINT
I. Thoughts of complaint (Psalms 102:1).
1. Concerning bodily sufferings.
(1) The physical anguish of lif...
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PSALM PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 102:1. The title, “A Prayer of one
afflicted,” makes it clear that this is an individual lament. At the
same time, it is certainly not individualistic: the “I” who sings
thi...
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PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 102:3 The singer focuses on his sense of
discouragement: BONES BURN, HEART IS STRUCK DOWN, FORGET TO EAT MY
BREAD, loud groaning
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INTRODUCTION
It is impossible to determine on what occasion and by whom this Psalm
was composed. Prof. Alexander and Hengstenberg regard it as a
composition of David. But from internal evidence, espec...
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EXPOSITION
THE "title" of this psalm is altogether peculiar, being "a Prayer for
the afflicted, when he faints, and pours out his complaint before
Jehovah." This is clearly a general direction for the...
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In Psalms 102:1-28, David begins with a prayer asking God to hear his
prayer.
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...
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James 4:14; Job 30:30; Lamentations 1:13; Lamentations 3:4; Psal
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An hearth — An hearth is heated or burnt by the coals which are laid
upon it....