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Selected Verse: Psalms 102:15 - Strong Concordance
| Verse |
Translation |
Text |
| Ps 102:15 |
Strong Concordance |
So the heathen [01471] shall fear [03372] the name [08034] of the LORD [03068], and all the kings [04428] of the earth [0776] thy glory [03519]. |
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King James |
So the heathen shall fear the name of the LORD, and all the kings of the earth thy glory. |
Summary Of Commentaries Associated With The Selected Verse
| A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882] |
| God's favor to the Church will affect her persecutors with fear. |
| Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834] |
So the heathen - The nations. That is, The surrounding people, who hear what thou hast done for thy people, will see the evidence that thou art God, and learn to love and worship thee.
Shall fear the name of the Lord - Shall reverence and honor thee.
And all the kings of the earth thy glory - The sovereigns of the earth will be especially affected and impressed with thy majesty. If this refers to the return from the captivity at Babylon, then it means that that event would be particularly suited to impress the minds of the rulers of the world, as showing that God had all nations under his control; that he could deliver a captive people from the grasp of the mighty; that he was the friend of those who worshipped him, and that he would frown on oppression and wrong. |
| The Scofield Bible Commentary, by Cyrus Ingerson Scofield, [1917] |
heathen
That is, nations.
fear
(See Scofield) - (Psa 19:9). |
| Commentary on the Old Testament, by Carl Friedrich Keil and Franz Delitzsch [1857-78] |
| With וייראוּ we are told what will take place when that which is expected in Psa 102:14 comes to pass, and at the same time the fulfilment of that which is longed for is thereby urged home upon God: Jahve's own honour depends upon it, since the restoration of Jerusalem will become the means of the conversion of the world - a fundamental thought of Isa 40:1 (cf. more particularly Isa 59:19; Isa 60:2), which is also called to mind in the expression of this strophe. This prophetic prospect (Isa 40:1-5) that the restoration of Jerusalem will take place simultaneously with the glorious parusia of Jahve re-echoes here in a lyric form. כּי, Psa 102:17, states the ground of the reverence, just as Psa 102:20 the ground of the praise. The people of the Exile are called in Psa 102:18 הערער, from ערר, to be naked: homeless, powerless, honourless, and in the eyes of men, prospectless. The lxx renders this word in Jer 17:6 ἀγριομυρίκη, and its plural, formed by an internal change of vowel, ערוער, in Jer 48:6 ὄνος ἄγριος, which are only particularizations of the primary notion of that which is stark naked, neglected, wild. Psa 102:18 is an echo off Psa 22:25. In the mirror of this and of other Psalms written in times of affliction the Israel of the Exile saw itself reflected. |
| Adam Clarke Commentary on the Whole Bible - Published 1810-1826 |
| So the heathen shall fear the name of the Lord - It is granted that after the edict of Cyrus to restore and rebuild Jerusalem which was about four hundred and ninety years before Christ, the name of the true God was more generally known among the heathen; and the translating the Sacred Writings into Greek, by the command of Ptolemy Philadelphus, king of Egypt, about two hundred and eighty-five years before the Christian era, spread a measure of the light of God in the Gentile world which they had not before seen. Add to this the disperson of the Jews into different parts of the Roman empire, after Judea became a Roman province, which took place about sixty years before the advent of our Lord; and we may consider these as so many preparatory steps to the conversion of the heathen by the Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ. And to this last general illumination of the Gentile world the psalmist must allude here, when he speaks of "the heathen fearing God's name, and all the kings of the earth his glory." |
9 The fear [03374] of the LORD [03068] is clean [02889], enduring [05975] for ever [05703]: the judgments [04941] of the LORD [03068] are true [0571] and righteous [06663] altogether [03162].
25 My praise [08416] shall be of thee in the great [07227] congregation [06951]: I will pay [07999] my vows [05088] before them that fear [03373] him.
18 This shall be written [03789] for the generation [01755] to come [0314]: and the people [05971] which shall be created [01254] shall praise [01984] the LORD [03050].
6 Flee [05127], save [04422] your lives [05315], and be [01961] like the heath [06176] in the wilderness [04057].
6 For he shall be like the heath [06199] in the desert [06160], and shall not see [07200] when good [02896] cometh [0935]; but shall inhabit [07931] the parched places [02788] in the wilderness [04057], in a salt [04420] land [0776] and not inhabited [03427].
18 This shall be written [03789] for the generation [01755] to come [0314]: and the people [05971] which shall be created [01254] shall praise [01984] the LORD [03050].
20 To hear [08085] the groaning [0603] of the prisoner [0615]; to loose [06605] those that are appointed [01121] to death [08546];
17 He will regard [06437] the prayer [08605] of the destitute [06199], and not despise [0959] their prayer [08605].
1 Comfort [05162] ye, comfort [05162] ye my people [05971], saith [0559] your God [0430].
2 Speak [01696] ye comfortably [03820] to Jerusalem [03389], and cry [07121] unto her, that her warfare [06635] is accomplished [04390], that her iniquity [05771] is pardoned [07521]: for she hath received [03947] of the LORD'S [03068] hand [03027] double [03718] for all her sins [02403].
3 The voice [06963] of him that crieth [07121] in the wilderness [04057], Prepare [06437] ye the way [01870] of the LORD [03068], make straight [03474] in the desert [06160] a highway [04546] for our God [0430].
4 Every valley [01516] shall be exalted [05375], and every mountain [02022] and hill [01389] shall be made low [08213]: and the crooked [06121] shall be made straight [04334], and the rough places [07406] plain [01237]:
5 And the glory [03519] of the LORD [03068] shall be revealed [01540], and all flesh [01320] shall see [07200] it together [03162]: for the mouth [06310] of the LORD [03068] hath spoken [01696] it.
2 For, behold, the darkness [02822] shall cover [03680] the earth [0776], and gross darkness [06205] the people [03816]: but the LORD [03068] shall arise [02224] upon thee, and his glory [03519] shall be seen [07200] upon thee.
19 So shall they fear [03372] the name [08034] of the LORD [03068] from the west [04628], and his glory [03519] from the rising [04217] of the sun [08121]. When the enemy [06862] shall come in [0935] like a flood [05104], the Spirit [07307] of the LORD [03068] shall lift up a standard [05127] against him.
1 Comfort [05162] ye, comfort [05162] ye my people [05971], saith [0559] your God [0430].
14 For thy servants [05650] take pleasure [07521] in her stones [068], and favour [02603] the dust [06083] thereof.