geneva - 102

geneva@Psalms:102:1 @ «A Prayer (note:)By which is signified, that even though we are in great misery, yet there is always room for prayer.(:note) of the afflicted, when he is overwhelmed, and poureth out his complaint before the LORD.» Hear my prayer, O LORD, and let my He declares that in our prayer we must lively feel that which we desire, and steadfastly believe to obtain. cry come unto thee.

geneva@Psalms:102:2 @ Hide not thy face from me in the time of my trouble: incline thine eares vnto me: when I call, make haste to heare me.

geneva@Psalms:102:3 @ For my days are (note:)These excessive kinds of speech show how much the affliction of the Church should wound the hearts of the godly.(:note) consumed like smoke, and my bones are burned as an hearth.

geneva@Psalms:102:4 @ My heart is smitten, and withered like grass; so that I forget (note:)My sorrows were so great that I did not eat.(:note) to eat my bread.

geneva@Psalms:102:5 @ For the voyce of my groning my bones doe cleaue to my skinne.

geneva@Psalms:102:6 @ I am like a (note:)Always mourning in solitude and casting out fearful cries.(:note) pelican of the wilderness: I am like an owl of the desert.

geneva@Psalms:102:7 @ I watch and am as a sparrowe alone vpon the house top.

geneva@Psalms:102:8 @ Mine enemies reproach me all the day; [and] they that are mad against me are (note:)Have conspired my death.(:note) sworn against me.

geneva@Psalms:102:9 @ For I have (note:)I have not risen out of my mourning to take my refreshment.(:note) eaten ashes like bread, and mingled my drink with weeping,

geneva@Psalms:102:10 @ Because of thine (note:)He shows that not only the afflictions moved him, but chiefly the feeling of God's displeasure.(:note) indignation and thy wrath: for thou hast lifted me up, and cast me down.

geneva@Psalms:102:11 @ My dayes are like a shadowe that fadeth, and I am withered like grasse.

geneva@Psalms:102:12 @ But thou, O LORD, shalt (note:)Though we are frail, yet your promise is sure, and the remembrance of it will confirm us forever.(:note) endure for ever; and thy remembrance unto all generations.

geneva@Psalms:102:13 @ Thou shalt arise, [and] have mercy upon Zion: for the time to favour her, yea, the (note:)That is, the seventy years which by the prophet Jeremiah you appointed, (Jer_29:12).(:note) set time, is come.

geneva@Psalms:102:14 @ For thy servants take pleasure in her (note:)The more the Church is in misery and desolation, the more the faithful should love and pity it.(:note) stones, and favour the dust thereof.

geneva@Psalms:102:15 @ Then the heathen shall feare the Name of the Lord, and all the Kings of the earth thy glory,

geneva@Psalms:102:16 @ When the LORD shall build up Zion, he shall appear (note:)That is, when he will have drawn his church out of the darkness of death.(:note) in his glory.

geneva@Psalms:102:17 @ And shall turne vnto the prayer of the desolate, and not despise their prayer.

geneva@Psalms:102:18 @ This shall be written for the generation to come: and the people which shall be (note:)The deliverance of the Church is an excellent benefit, and therefore he compares it to a new creation for in their banishment the body of the Church seemed to have been dead, which by deliverance was as it were created anew.(:note) created shall praise the LORD.

geneva@Psalms:102:19 @ For he hath looked downe from the height of his Sanctuarie: out of the heauen did the Lord beholde the earth,

geneva@Psalms:102:20 @ To hear the groaning of the prisoner; to loose those that are (note:)Who now in their banishment could look for nothing but death.(:note) appointed to death;

geneva@Psalms:102:21 @ That they may declare the Name of the Lord in Zion, and his prayse in Ierusalem,

geneva@Psalms:102:22 @ When the people are gathered (note:)He shows that Gad's name is never more praised, than when religion flourishes and the church increases: which is chiefly accomplished under the kingdom of Christ.(:note) together, and the kingdoms, to serve the LORD.

geneva@Psalms:102:23 @ He (note:)The church lament that they see not the time of Christ, which was promised, but have but few years and short days.(:note) weakened my strength in the way; he shortened my days.

geneva@Psalms:102:24 @ And I sayd, O my God, take me not away in the middes of my dayes: thy yeeres endure from generation to generation.

geneva@Psalms:102:25 @ Thou hast aforetime layde the foundation of the earth, and the heauens are the worke of thine hands.

geneva@Psalms:102:26 @

geneva@Psalms:102:27 @ But thou art the same, and thy yeeres shall not fayle.

geneva@Psalms:102:28 @ The children of thy servants shall continue, and their seed shall (note:)Seeing you have chosen your Church out of the world, and joined it to you, it cannot but continue forever: for you are everlasting.(:note) be established before thee.

Psalms 102