תהלים 102:1

Hebrew Modern Translation

תפלה לעני כי יעטף ולפני יהוה ישפך שיחו יהוה שמעה תפלתי ושועתי אליך תבוא׃

Parallel Translations

Hebrew Aleppo Codex
לעני כי-יעטף ולפני יהוה ישפך שיחו [102:2] שמעה תפלתי ושועתי אליך תבוא

Biblia Hebrica Stuttgartensia (1967/77)
תְּ֭פִלָּה לְעָנִ֣י כִֽי־יַעֲטֹ֑ף וְלִפְנֵ֥י יְ֝הוָ֗ה יִשְׁפֹּ֥ךְ שִׂיחֹֽו ׃ [102:2] יְ֭הוָה שִׁמְעָ֣ה תְפִלָּתִ֑י וְ֝שַׁוְעָתִ֗י אֵלֶ֥יךָ תָבֹֽוא׃

Westminster Leningrad Codex
תְּפִלָּה לְעָנִי כִֽי־יַעֲטֹף וְלִפְנֵי יְהוָה יִשְׁפֹּךְ שִׂיחֹֽו ׃ [102:2] יְהוָה שִׁמְעָה תְפִלָּתִי וְשַׁוְעָתִי אֵלֶיךָ תָבֹֽוא׃

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

of: or, for

overwhelmed: Psalms 12:5, Psalms 61:2, Psalms 69:1, Psalms 69:2, Psalms 142:2, Psalms 142:3, Psalms 143:4, Lamentations 3:18-20, Mark 14:33, Mark 14:34, Luke 22:44, Hebrews 5:7

poureth: Psalms 42:4, Psalms 62:8, Psalms 77:3, Psalms 142:2, 1 Samuel 1:15, 1 Samuel 1:16

Hear: Psalms 5:2, Psalms 55:1-5, Psalms 57:1-3, Psalms 130:1, Psalms 130:2, Psalms 41:1, Psalms 41:2, Psalms 143:7, Psalms 145:19

let my: Psalms 18:6, Exodus 2:23, Judges 10:16, 1 Samuel 9:16, 2 Chronicles 30:27, Lamentations 3:8, Lamentations 3:44

Reciprocal: 1 Kings 8:59 - nigh Job 21:4 - is my complaint Psalms 77:2 - In the Psalms 119:145 - cried

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Hear my prayer, O Lord,.... The prayer of a poor, destitute, and afflicted one; his own, and not another's; not what was composed for him, but composed by him; which came out of his own heart, and out of unfeigned lips, and expressed under a feeling sense of his own wants and troubles; and though dictated and inwrought in his heart by the Spirit of God, yet, being put up by him in faith and fervency, it is called his own, and which he desires might be heard:

and let my cry come unto thee; he calls his prayer cry, because it was uttered in distress, and with great vehemency and importunity; and he prays that it might come unto God, even into his ears, and be regarded by him, and not shut out: prayer comes aright to God, when it comes through Christ, and out of his hands, perfumed with the incense of his mediation.

e לעני "pauperis", V. L. Pagninus, Vatablus, Amama; "inopis", Cocceius. f יעטף "convolveretur", Munster; "obtegitur", Gejerus, so Michaelis. g שיחו "meditationem suam", Junius & Tremellius, Gejerus, so Ainsworth.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Hear my prayer, O Lord - The prayer which I offer in view of my personal trials; the prayer which I offer as one of an afflicted people. Compare Psalms 4:1; Psalms 17:1; Psalms 18:6.

And let my cry come unto thee - My prayer, accompanied with an outward expression of my earnestness. It was not a silent, or a mental prayer; it was a loud and earnest cry. Psalms 5:2; Psalms 18:6, Psalms 18:41; Psalms 30:2; Psalms 72:12; Job 35:9; Job 36:13.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

PSALM CII

The complaint and miserable state of the poor captives, 1-11;

the expectation of deliverance, 12-14;

the conversion of the heathen, 15-18;

the termination of the captivity, 19-22;

the great frailty of man, 23, 24;

the unchangeableness of God, 25-27;

the permanence of the Church, 28.

NOTES ON PSALM CII

The Hebrew, and nearly all the Versions, give the following title to this Psalm: A prayer of the afflicted, when he is overwhelmed, and pours out his sighing before the Lord. There seems to be little doubt that this is the prayer of the captives in Babylon, when, towards the end of the captivity, they were almost worn out with oppression, cruelty, and distress. The Psalm has been attributed to Daniel, to Jeremiah, to Nehemiah, or to some of the other prophets who flourished during the time of the captivity. The author of the Epistle to the Hebrews has applied the twenty-fifth, twenty sixth, and twenty-seventh verses to our Lord, and the perpetuity of his kingdom.

Verse Psalms 102:1. Hear my prayer — The chief parts of the Psalm answer well to the title: it is the language of the deepest distress, and well directed to Him from whom alone help can come.