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I AM LIKE A PELICAN OF THE WILDERNESS - A bird in the midst of
desolation becomes a striking image of loneliness and distress. The
word rendered “pelican” - קאת _qâ'ath_ - is supposed to have
been a...
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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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A PELICAN... OWL: both unclean birds.
ALONE. Some codices, with one early printed edition, read "flitting to
and fro"....
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I AM LIKE A PELICAN OF THE WILDERNESS— There are two species of
_pelicans,_ one of which lives in the water, upon fish; the other in
the wilderness, upon serpents and reptiles. By the _owl of the
dese...
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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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I am like a pelican of the wilderness: I am like an owl of the
desert.
I AM LIKE A PELICAN OF THE WILDERNESS - (, margin) Expressive of his
misery. I AM LIKE AN OWL OF THE DESERT - or, as the Syria...
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DESERT] RV 'waste places.'...
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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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PELICAN. — See Leviticus 11:18. “It has been objected that the
pelican is a water-bird, and cannot, therefore, be the _kâath_ of the
Scriptures — “the pelican of the wilderness” — as it must of
necess...
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_[Psalms 102:7]_ דָּ֭מִיתִי לִ קְאַ֣ת
מִדְבָּ֑ר הָ֝יִ֗יתִי...
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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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I am like a (e) pelican of the wilderness: I am like an owl of the
desert.
(e) Always mourning in solitude and casting out fearful cries....
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_Mercies. Hebrew, "Justice" in protecting the innocent._...
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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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6_I have become like a pelican of the wilderness _Instead of rendering
the original word by _pelican, _some translate it _bittern, _and
others the _cuckoo. _The Hebrew word here used for _owl _is rend...
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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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I AM LIKE A PELICAN OF THE WILDERNESS,.... It may be so called, to
distinguish it from another of the same name that lives upon the
waters; which has the name of "pelican" in the Greek tongue, as is
s...
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I am like a pelican of the wilderness: I am like an owl of the desert.
Ver. 6. _I am like a pelican_] Or bittern, which liveth in lonely
places, and crieth out dolefully, Isa 34:11 Zephaniah 2:14 .
_...
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Psa. 40:6-8. "Sacrifice and offering thou didst not desire; mine ears
hast thou opened (or bored): burnt-offering and sin-offering hast thou
not required. Then said I, Lo, I come: in the volume of the...
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_My heart is withered like grass_ Which is smitten and withered by the
heat of the sun, either while it stands, or after it is cut down. _So
that I forget to eat my bread_ Because my mind is wholly sw...
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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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I am like a pelican of the wilderness; I am like an owl of the desert,
of ruined places, both of these being unclean birds according to the
Levitical law....
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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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PELICAN; or, _bittern_, as the same word is translated, ISAIAH 34:11
ZEPHANIAH 2:14. It is a solitary and mournful bird, as also the owl
here following is....
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Psalms 102:6 like H1819 (H8804) pelican H6893 wilderness H4057 owl
H3563 desert H2723
like -...
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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 34:11; Isaiah 38:14; Job 30:29; Job 30:30; Micah 1:8;...
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A pelican — Is a solitary and mournful bird....