I spent quite a bit of time on some of these verses, and I will also include the various dates that I wrote something on it.
Monday, 11-28-05
Psalm 102:1-2 The psalmist first seems to be referring to this particular plea. He sounds desperate, but not desperate to the point of forsaking everything.
3-4:
He seems to be wasting time. Why would his days vanish like smoke? Maybe he is sick, with a sickness of the muscles. He says his heart is blighted, when the hebrew for that means killed, beaten, or driven out. The physical state that he describes here couldn't have occured after one day, this must have taken place over a longer period of time. This may or not be related to his forgetting to eat his food.
5: He spends so much energy in his cries that he wastes away. In the previous sentence, he said he forgets to eat, and here, he shrivels to a skeleton with skin because of his cries.
6-7: What significance does desert owl actually have? It must be a way of emphasizing how alone he feels. A bird alone on a roof- maybe birds back then were always together.
8: He's taunted by his enemies, and they mock him and make a fool of him, and even invoke his name, like God's name, or to corinthianize, or to cretanize.
9-10 He eats ashes- Why? does he have no other food in his house, or no money to buy some? Maybe he's burning his food as an offereing to God, and the ashes are all that's left. He mingles his drink with tears- he's crying so much and so uncontrollably, that he nees the water as he's weeping- the taste of salt must have been terrible.
10: "You have taken me up and thrown me aside." Is he charging God with wrongdoing, or is he simply saying, you have done this, God. It appears that he is ismply stating a fact- not charging God with wrongdoing.
11: evening shadow- the evening shadow gets longer. He's saying that his days get longer and longer, and again he says that he is withering like grass.
12-5-05 12:30p.m.
12: 'But you, O Lord, sit enthroned forever'- he gives God glory, after his complaint. Your renown- the Lord's memory endures through out. He can never be forgotten.
13:You will arise and have compassion on Zion for it it time
12-12-05 6 p.m.
13: For it is time to show favor to her. The appointed time has come. The appointed time- the time of punishment. God appointed a time for his favor to return to his people.
14: her stones- foundation? the wall? Dust from the stone, moves them to pity. A symbol of their relationship with God?
15-16: Everyone will know who God is, everyone, regardless of what they believe, will pay God what he is due.
Fri 12-30
Psalm 102
17: He will respond to the prayer of the destitute, he will not despise their plea. The destitute, the scum of the earth, the lowly, will be heart by God. He will not turan away their cries of Israel like He did before.
18-20:
Everyone needs to know what God did- he looked down to free us.
21-22: Glory will be given to God when all people are assembled.
23-28:
The psalmist changes course from giving praise to telling us that God came after him. He prayed, Lord, don't take me away. He wasn't scared of death, he watned to live loonger to be with His God and see the end. He didn't know about eternity, but he knew the world would pass away.
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