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Verse Psalms 102:9. _I HAVE EATEN ASHES LIKE BREAD_] Fearful of what
they might do, we all humbled ourselves before thee, and sought thy
protection; well knowing that, unless we were supernaturally as...
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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;...
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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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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. Casting ashes upon themselves, or rolling themselve...
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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 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 which his enemies reproach him () - namely, his great m...
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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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ASHES LIKE BREAD. — Lamentations 3:16. A figurative expression, like
“dust shall be the serpent’s meat” (Isaiah 65:25; comp. Genesis
3:14). With the last clause comp....
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_[Psalms 102:10]_ כִּי ־אֵ֭פֶר כַּ † לֶּ֣חֶם...
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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 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....
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_Ever. He executes his threats, but soon pardons us. (Calmet) ---
Hebrew, "he will not plead always, nor watch to surprise us for ever;"
(Calmet) or "retain" his anger. (Berthier) --- He is inclined t...
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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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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,
which is put before לחם, _lechem, _the word for _bread, _ought t...
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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 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 table than the ground to eat his food upon, he might...
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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 mourner, I know not whether I eat bread or dust; this...
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_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 familiar to me as the eating of my bread; I cover my hea...
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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 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 WITH WEEPING, Cf Psalms 42:3,...
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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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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, _surely_, as this particle is oft used. Or, _therefore_,...
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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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Isaiah 44:20; Job 3:24; Lamentations 3:15; Lamentations 3:16;...
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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 mourners often did....