They shall perish, but thou shalt endure: yea, all of them shall wax old like a garment; as a vesture shalt thou change them, and they shall be changed:
This prayer belongs to the faithful in Babylon's captivity, when deliverance drew near. They lament their afflictions, plead for the temple's restoration, and recall God's promises to steady their hope. The prophet shaped it as a form of prayer when the seventy years were nearly finished and comfort was about to break forth.
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Commenting on Psalm 102:1-28
All things fall away like old cloth, worn thin by time itself; yet You stand unmoved, and when You choose, You will fold up the worlds as a weary king discards his faded robes and dresses Himself in new heavens and new earth. Omnipotence needs no permission to do this work.
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When the ten tribes were lost in Assyria and Judah nearly lost in Babylon, the promise seemed to fail utterly; the strength of that nation was broken in the way, and the day of the Messiah appeared cut short. Yet the psalmist cries out as we all must when sickness or early death threatens: God's hand holds our strength and time, and we must trust His love even when both are taken from us.
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Commenting on Psalm 102:23-28