Psalms 102:1
A Prayer of the man who is in trouble, when he is overcome, and puts his grief before the Lord.
Bible in Basic English
In The King James Version
Hear my prayer, O LORD, and let my cry come unto thee.
In Context
2\102:1\Give ear to my prayer, O Lord, and let my cry come to you.
Cross References
Exodus 2:23Now after a long time the king of Egypt came to his end: and the children of Israel were crying in their grief under the weight of their work, and their cry for help came to the ears of God.
1 Samuel 1:15And Hannah, answering him, said, No, my lord, I am a woman whose spirit is broken with sorrow: I have not taken wine or strong drink, but I have been opening my heart before the Lord.
2 Chronicles 30:27Then the priests and the Levites gave the people a blessing: and the voice of their prayer went up to the holy place of God in heaven.
Psalms 12:5\12:4\They have said, With our tongues will we overcome; our lips are ours: who is lord over us?
Psalms 39:12\39:11\By the weight of your wrath against man's sin, the glory of his form is wasted away; truly every man is but a breath. (Selah.)
Psalms 42:4\42:3\My tears have been my food day and night, while they keep saying to me, Where is your God?
Matthew Henry on Psalms 102:1
Some think that David penned this psalm at the time of Absalom's rebellion; others that Daniel, Nehemiah, or some other prophet, penned it for the use of the church, when it was in captivity in Babylon, because it seems to speak of the ruin of Zion and of a time set for the rebuilding of it, which Daniel understood by books, Dan. ix. 2 . Or perhaps the psalmist was himself in great affliction, which he complains of in the beginning of the psalm, but (as in Ps. lxxvii. and elsewhere) he comforts himself under it… Read the whole commentary →