The children of Your servants will continue, and their descendants will be established before You. Psalm 102:28 NASB Descendants – Hebrew is a language of the land. It’s not too surprising that our word “descendants” is zeraʿ in Hebrew, i.e., seed. In fact, given the ancient mythology of pagan creation stories via the sperm of the…
In time of old You founded the earth, and the heavens are the work of Your hands. Even they will perish, but You endure; all of them will wear out like a garment; like clothing You will change them and they will pass away. But You are the same, and Your years will not come to an end. …
In time of old You founded the earth, and the heavens are the work of Your hands. Even they will perish, but You endure; all of them will wear out like a garment; like clothing You will change them and they will pass away. But You are the same, and Your years will not come to an end. …
I say, “My God, do not take me away in the middle of my days, Your years are throughout all generations. Psalm 102:24 NASB Take me away – When you read this verse, does it seem like a non sequitur? What does “Your years are throughout” have to do with “don’t take me away”? Of course, God is…
He has broken my strength in the way; He has shortened my days. Psalm 102:23 NASB Has broken – Read it again. What does the psalmist mean? Has God “broken” the poet? Has He shattered his strength? Has God ridden the wildness out of you? Did you buck and kick and finally submit? Is that what…
So that people may tell of the name of the Lord in Zion, and His praise in Jerusalem, when the peoples are gathered together, and the kingdoms, to serve the Lord. Psalm 102:21-22 NASB So that people may tell of – Brevity. That’s what’s happening here. In Hebrew, לְסַפֵּר (le-saper). One verb plus the conjunction. And the verb is not conjugated. It’s…
For He looked down from His holy height; from heaven the Lord looked upon the earth, to hear the groaning of the prisoner, to set free those who were doomed to death, Psalm 102:19-20 NASB Those who were doomed – There’s a little footnote next to these words in the NASB. Read it! Why? Because the Hebrew text is not “those…
For He looked down from His holy height; from heaven the Lord looked upon the earth, to hear the groaning of the prisoner, to set free those who were doomed to death, Psalm 102:19-20 NASB Heaven – Early Hebrew thought says almost nothing about heaven or hell. The ideas of eternal bliss in some celestial realm and eternal punishment in a…
This will be written for the generation to come, that a people yet to be created may praise the Lord: Psalm 102:18 NASB To come – The psalms were written thousands of years ago. They reflect a political kingdom culture, a Semitic people, a nomadic cult; in a word, a world totally unlike ours. Yet we read them today…
He has turned His attention to the prayer of the destitute and has not despised their prayer. Psalm 102:17 NASB He has turned His attention to – Isn’t it nice that Hebrew can communicate so many English words in a single verb and paint a tactile picture for us at the same time? One word, pānāh, incorporates…
