
Text -- Psalms 102:10 (NET)




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Wesley -> Psa 102:10
Wesley: Psa 102:10 - -- As a man lifts up a thing as high as he can, that he may cast it to the ground with greater force.
As a man lifts up a thing as high as he can, that he may cast it to the ground with greater force.
JFB -> Psa 102:10
Or, "cast me away" as stubble by a whirlwind (Isa 64:6).
Clarke -> Psa 102:10
Clarke: Psa 102:10 - -- For thou hast lifted me up, and cast me down - Thou hast lifted me on high, that thou mightest dash me down with the greater force
We were exalted i...
For thou hast lifted me up, and cast me down - Thou hast lifted me on high, that thou mightest dash me down with the greater force
We were exalted in thy favor beyond any people, and now thou hast made us the lowest and most abject of the children of men.
Calvin -> Psa 102:10
Calvin: Psa 102:10 - -- 10.On account of thy anger and thy wrath He now declares that the greatness of his grief proceeded not only from outward troubles and calamities, but...
10.On account of thy anger and thy wrath He now declares that the greatness of his grief proceeded not only from outward troubles and calamities, but from a sense that these were a punishment inflicted upon him by God. And surely there is nothing which ought to wound our hearts more deeply, than when we feel that God is angry with us. The meaning then amounts to this — O Lord! I do not confine my attention to those things which would engage the mind of worldly men; but I rather turn my thoughts to thy wrath; for were it not that thou art angry with us, we would have been still enjoying the inheritance given us by thee, from which we have justly been expelled by thy displeasure. When God then strikes us with his hand, we should not merely groan under the strokes inflicted upon us, as foolish men usually do, but should chiefly look to the cause that we may be truly humbled. This is a lesson which it would be of great advantage to us to learn.
The last clause of the verse, Thou hast lifted me up, and cast me down, may be understood in two ways. As we lift up what we intend to throw down with greater violence against the ground, the sentence may denote a violent method of casting down, as if it had been said, Thou hast crushed me more severely by throwing me down headlong from on high, than if I had merely fallen from the station which I occupied. 145 But this seems to be another amplification of his grief, nothing being more bitter to an individual than to be reduced from a happy condition to extreme misery, the prophet mournfully complains that the chosen people were deprived of the distinguished advantages which God had conferred upon them in time past, so that the very remembrance of his former goodness, which should have afforded consolation to them, embittered their sorrow. Nor was it the effect of ingratitude to turn the consideration of the divine benefits, which they had formerly received, into matter of sadness; since they acknowledged that their being reduced to such a state of wretchedness and degradation was through their own sins. God has no delight in changing, as if, after having given us some taste of his goodness, he intended forthwith to deprive us of it. As his goodness is inexhaustible, so his blessing would flow upon us without intermission, were it not for our sins which break off the course of it. Although, then, the remembrance of God’s benefits ought to assuage our sorrows, yet still it is a great aggravation of our calamity to have fallen from an elevated position, and to find that we have so provoked his anger, as to make him withdraw from us his benignant and bountiful hand. Thus when we consider that the image of God, which distinguished Adam, was the brightness of the celestial glory; and when, on the contrary, we now see the ignominy and degradation to which God has subjected us in token of his wrath, this contrast cannot surely fail of making us feel more deeply the wretchedness of our condition. Whenever, therefore, God, after having stripped us of the blessings which he had conferred upon us, gives us up to reproach, let us learn that we have so much the greater cause to lament, because, through our own fault, we have turned light into darkness.
TSK -> Psa 102:10
TSK: Psa 102:10 - -- Because : Psa 38:3, Psa 38:18, Psa 39:11, Psa 90:7-9; Lam 1:18, Lam 3:39-42, Lam 5:16; Dan 9:8-14; Rom 3:19
thou hast : Psa 30:6, Psa 30:7, Psa 73:18-...
Because : Psa 38:3, Psa 38:18, Psa 39:11, Psa 90:7-9; Lam 1:18, Lam 3:39-42, Lam 5:16; Dan 9:8-14; Rom 3:19
thou hast : Psa 30:6, Psa 30:7, Psa 73:18-20, Psa 147:6; 1Sa 2:7, 1Sa 2:8; 2Ch 25:8; 2Co 4:9

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Barnes -> Psa 102:10
Barnes: Psa 102:10 - -- Because of thine indignation and thy wrath - Hebrew, "From the face of thine indignation,"etc. That is - he regarded all his sufferings as proo...
Because of thine indignation and thy wrath - Hebrew, "From the face of thine indignation,"etc. That is - he regarded all his sufferings as proof of the indignation and wrath of God against him. See Psa 90:7-9.
For thou hast lifted me up - In former times. Thou hadst given me prosperity; thou hadst given me an elevated and honorable place among men.
And cast me down - Thou hast brought me into a low condition, and I feel it all the more from the fact that I had enjoyed prosperity. Compare the notes at Psa 30:7. The passage, however, is susceptible of another interpretation: "Thou hast lifted me up, and cast me away."That is, Thou hast lifted me from the ground as a storm or tempest takes up a light thing, and hast whirled me away. This idea occurs in Isa 22:18. See the notes at that passage. The former, however, seems to me to be the more correct interpretation.
Poole -> Psa 102:10
Poole: Psa 102:10 - -- Because of thine indignation and thy wrath because I do not only conflict with men, but with the Almighty God, and with his anger.
For thou hast lif...
Because of thine indignation and thy wrath because I do not only conflict with men, but with the Almighty God, and with his anger.
For thou hast lifted me up, and cast me down as a man lifts up a person or thing as high as he can, that he may cast it down to the ground with greater force. Or he aggravates his present reproach and misery by the consideration of that great honour and happiness to which God had formerly advanced him, as Job did, Job 29 Job 30 , and the church, Lam 1:7 .
Haydock -> Psa 102:10
Iniquities. Which deserved eternal reprobation.
Gill -> Psa 102:10
Gill: Psa 102:10 - -- Because of thine indignation and thy wrath,.... This was the burden of his complaint, what gave him the greatest uneasiness; not so much the reproach ...
Because of thine indignation and thy wrath,.... This was the burden of his complaint, what gave him the greatest uneasiness; not so much the reproach of his enemies, and his other outward afflictions, as the sense he had of God's wrath and indignation. The people of God are as deserving of his wrath as others; and when they are awakened to a sense of sin and danger, or the law enters into their consciences, it works wrath there, and leaves nothing but a fearful looking for of judgment and fiery indignation, till comfort is given; and under afflictive providences they are very ready to conclude, that the wrath of God is upon them; but this is only their apprehension of things; it is not in reality: for God has not appointed them to wrath, and has swore he will not be wroth with them; Christ has bore it for them, in their room and stead; and being justified by his blood and righteousness, they are saved from it; but then the sense they have of it is very terrible, and there is no rest, peace, and comfort in their souls, while under the apprehensions of it:
for thou hast lifted me up, and cast me down; as a man that, in wrestling, has the advantage of his antagonist, lifts him up as high as he can, that he may throw him with the greater force upon the ground; in like manner the psalmist thought the Lord was dealing with him: or this may express his changeable state and condition, sometimes lifted up, and sometimes cast down, and which is the case of every believer, more or less; all have their liftings up, and their castings down: when God first calls them by his grace, he raises them from a low estate, lifts them up out of an horrible pit, takes them from the dunghill, sets them among princes to inherit the throne of glory: when he comforts them with the consolations of his Spirit, he is the lifter up of their heads; when he grants his presence, and lifts up the light of his countenance: when he discovers his love, and makes their mountain to stand strong; when he shows them their interest in himself, as their covenant God, in Christ, as their Redeemer and Saviour, and grants them the communion of the Holy Ghost; and when their graces are in lively exercise, then is it a time of lifting up: and they are cast down when corruptions prevail, when grace is weak, when God hides his face, and when afflictions lie heavy on them: this was now the case of the psalmist, and perhaps the remembrance of his liftings up in former times was an aggravation of it.

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NET Notes -> Psa 102:10
Geneva Bible -> Psa 102:10
Geneva Bible: Psa 102:10 Because of thine ( h ) indignation and thy wrath: for thou hast lifted me up, and cast me down.
( h ) He shows that not only the afflictions moved hi...

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TSK Synopsis -> Psa 102:1-28
TSK Synopsis: Psa 102:1-28 - --1 The prophet in his prayer makes a grievous complaint.12 He takes comfort in the eternity, and mercy of God.18 The mercies of God are to be recorded....
MHCC -> Psa 102:1-11
MHCC: Psa 102:1-11 - --The whole word of God is of use to direct us in prayer; but here, is often elsewhere, the Holy Ghost has put words into our mouths. Here is a prayer p...
Matthew Henry -> Psa 102:1-11
Matthew Henry: Psa 102:1-11 - -- The title of this psalm is very observable; it is a prayer of the afflicted. It was composed by one that was himself afflicted, afflicted with the...
Keil-Delitzsch -> Psa 102:9-11
Keil-Delitzsch: Psa 102:9-11 - --
Ashes are his bread (cf. Lam 3:16), inasmuch as he, a mourner, sits in ashes, and has thrown ashes all over himself, Job 2:8; Eze 27:30. The infecte...
Constable: Psa 90:1--106:48 - --IV. Book 4: chs. 90--106
Moses composed one of the psalms in this section of the Psalter (Ps. 90). David wrote t...

Constable: Psa 102:1-28 - --Psalm 102
Another anonymous writer poured out his personal lament to Yahweh (cf. Pss. 22, 69, 79). He fe...
