--- title: "Bullinger" description: "Title. A Prayer, &c. This refers to Messiah" image: "/images/missing.jpg" url: "https://realbiblebelievers.com/commentaries/bullingers-companion-bible-notes/psalms/102" --- **Title. A Prayer, &c.** This refers to Messiah *'* s humiliation. **before.** See note on "presence" ([Psalms 95:2](../../../kjv/psalms/95/2) ). **LORD.** Hebrew. *Jehovah.* App-4 . **face.** See note on "presence" ([Psalms 95:2](../../../kjv/psalms/95/2) ). **like smoke.** So some codices, with Aramaean, Septuagint, and Vulgate; other codices read "in smoke". **an hearth** = charred wood. **bread.** Put by Figure of speech *Synecdoche* (of Part), App-6 , for food in general. **skin** = flesh. **a pelican . . . owl:** both unclean birds. **alone.** Some codices, with one early printed edition, read "flitting to and fro". **are sworn against me** = are sworn [together] against me; as in [Acts 23:12-21](../../../kjv/acts/23/12-21) . **Because of** = from the face of. See note on [Psalms 95:2](../../../kjv/psalms/95/2) . **But Thou.** Emphasizing the great consolation. **shalt endure.** Sittest, or wilt sit [enthroned]. **Thy remembrance.** Some codices read "Thy throne". **mercy** = compassion. **Zion.** See App-68 . **the set time.** First, the end of the seventy years ([Daniel 9:2](../../../kjv/daniel/9/2) .[Nehemiah 2:17-20](../../../kjv/nehemiah/2/17-20) ; [Nehemiah 3:1-32](../../../kjv/nehemiah/3/1-32) ); and second, the still future set time in God's counsels. All this is prophecy. No need to think it was written after Jerusalem's desolation. David was a prophet ([Acts 2:30](../../../kjv/acts/2/30) , [Acts 2:31](../../../kjv/acts/2/31) ). Compare [Isaiah 40:2](../../../kjv/isaiah/40/2) ; [Isaiah 61:2](../../../kjv/isaiah/61/2) . **stones.** Put by Figure of speech *Synecdoche* (of Part), for the restored buildings. **heathen** = nations. **name.** See note on [Psalms 20:1](../../../kjv/psalms/20/1) . **glory.** Always mentioned in connection with Messiah's sufferings. Compare verses: [Psalms 102:1-12](../../../kjv/psalms/102/1-12) . See App-71 . **appear in His glory.** This shows that all is prophetic. Compare [Isaiah 60:1-3](../../../kjv/isaiah/60/1-3) . **the generation to come** = a generation to come. Showing that all here is future. **the** = a. **created:** i.e. the new Israel ([Psalms 22:31](../../../kjv/psalms/22/31) .[Isaiah 43:1-7](../../../kjv/isaiah/43/1-7) , [Isaiah 43:18-21](../../../kjv/isaiah/43/18-21) ; [Isaiah 66:8](../../../kjv/isaiah/66/8) ). This is the new nation referred to in [Matthew 21:43](../../../kjv/matthew/21/43) . **THE LORD.** Hebrew Jah. App-4 . **the height of His sanctuary** = His holy height. **those . . . appointed to death** = the sons of death. Genitive of Relation. The Hebrew word for "death" occurs only here and [Psalms 79:11](../../../kjv/psalms/79/11) . It is *feminine,* as though the mother. Compare [Romans 8:36](../../../kjv/romans/8/36) , and see App-17 (5). **When, &c.** Compare [Psalms 22:27](../../../kjv/psalms/22/27) ; [Psalms 68:32](../../../kjv/psalms/68/32) .[Isaiah 45:14](../../../kjv/isaiah/45/14) . Fulfilling [Genesis 49:10](../../../kjv/genesis/49/10) . **He weakened.** A return to the subject corresponding with (verses: [Psalms 102:3-11](../../../kjv/psalms/102/3-11) ), above. **in the way:** i.e. of His humiliation. **my GOD.** Hebrew. *Eli = my* El. App-4 . **Of old, &c.** Quoted in [Hebrews 1:10-12](../../../kjv/hebrews/1/10-12) , which shows this Psalm is all prophetic of Messiah. **the same:** or He. Compare [Isaiah 41:4](../../../kjv/isaiah/41/4) ; [Isaiah 43:10](../../../kjv/isaiah/43/10) . **children** = sons. **shall continue** = shall dwell [in the Land]. ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/#website","url":"https://realbiblebelievers.com","name":"Real Bible Believers","description":"RBB","publisher":{"@id":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/#/schema/person/e966585dde703268e7f6ae890ea98509"},"potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/search?q={search_term_string}","query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"ImageObject","@id":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/commentaries/bullingers-companion-bible-notes/psalms/102#primaryimage","inLanguage":"en-US","url":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/images/missing.jpg","contentUrl":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/images/missing.jpg","width":640,"height":370,"caption":"Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Psalms 102"},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/commentaries/bullingers-companion-bible-notes/psalms/102#webpage","url":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/commentaries/bullingers-companion-bible-notes/psalms/102","name":"Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Psalms 102","isPartOf":{"@id":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/commentaries/bullingers-companion-bible-notes/psalms/102#primaryimage"},"datePublished":null,"dateModified":null,"author":{"@id":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/#/schema/person/e966585dde703268e7f6ae890ea98509"},"description":"Title. 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