תהלים 102:19

Hebrew Modern Translation

כי השקיף ממרום קדשו יהוה משמים אל ארץ הביט׃

Parallel Translations

Hebrew Aleppo Codex
[102:20] ממרום קדשו יהוה משמים אל-ארץ הביט

Biblia Hebrica Stuttgartensia (1967/77)
[102:20] כִּֽי־הִ֭שְׁקִיף מִמְּרֹ֣ום קָדְשֹׁ֑ו יְ֝הוָ֗ה מִשָּׁמַ֤יִם ׀ אֶל־אֶ֬רֶץ הִבִּֽיט ׃

Westminster Leningrad Codex
[102:20] כִּֽי־הִשְׁקִיף מִמְּרוֹם קָדְשׁוֹ יְהוָה מִשָּׁמַיִם ׀ אֶל־אֶרֶץ הִבִּֽיט ׃

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

For he: Psalms 14:2, Psalms 33:13, Psalms 33:14, Deuteronomy 26:15, 1 Kings 8:39, 1 Kings 8:43, 2 Chronicles 16:9

the height: Job 22:12, Hebrews 8:1, Hebrews 8:2, Hebrews 9:23, Hebrews 9:24

Reciprocal: Deuteronomy 26:7 - looked Psalms 53:2 - looked Psalms 74:21 - O let not Isaiah 63:15 - down Jeremiah 31:18 - surely Jeremiah 51:10 - let us Lamentations 3:50 - General Ezekiel 34:10 - for I will Zechariah 9:11 - I have

Gill's Notes on the Bible

For he hath looked down from the height of his sanctuary,.... From heaven, as it is explained in the next clause, which is the Lord's sanctuary, or holy place, where he dwells, even in the height of it; it is both high and holy, as he himself is; yet he condescends to look down from thence on sinful mortals:

from heaven did the Lord behold the earth; the inhabitants of it, good and bad: it designs the general notice he takes of men and things in a providential way; he beholds the world, that lies in wickedness, and all the wickedness committed in it; and will one day call to an account, and punish for it; he beholds good men, not only with an eye of providence, to take care of them, protect and defend, but with an eye of love, grace, and mercy; he has a special and distinct knowledge of them, and it may here particularly regard the notice he takes of his people, under antichristian tyranny; he sees all the barbarity and cruelty exercised upon them, and will requite it, ere long, to their adversaries, and free them from it, as follows.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

For he hath looked down from the height of his sanctuary - From his high and holy dwelling-place, in heaven. The word here rendered “looked down,” means, in Kal, to lay upon or over; then, in Niphil, to lie out over anything, to project; and then, to bend forward. It then means to bend or incline forward with an intention to look at anything, as from a window, Genesis 26:8. Compare Psalms 14:2. See also Psalms 85:12, note; 1 Peter 1:12, note.

From heaven did the Lord behold the earth - Did he look abroad over all the world.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Psalms 102:19. For he hath looked down — This, with the three following verses, seems to me to contain a glorious prophecy of the incarnation of Christ, and the gathering in of the Jews and the Gentiles to him. The Lord looks down from heaven, and sees the whole earth groaning and travailing in pain; his eye affects his heart, and he purposes their salvation.