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Selected Verse: Psalms 102:18 - Strong Concordance
| Verse |
Translation |
Text |
| Ps 102:18 |
Strong Concordance |
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]. |
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King James |
This shall be written for the generation to come: and the people which shall be created shall praise the LORD. |
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] |
| people . . . created--(compare Psa 22:31), an organized body, as a Church. |
| Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834] |
This shall be written for the generation to come - It shall be recorded for the instruction and encouragement of future ages. The fact that God has heard the prayer of his people in a time of trial shall be so recorded and remembered that it may be referred to in similar circumstances in all time to come, for he is an unchanging God. What he has done now, he will always be willing to do hereafter.
And the people which shall be created - Future generations. Each successive generation is in fact a new "creation;" each individual is also; for the essential idea in creation is that of bringing something into existence where there was nothing before. There is a "beginning" of existence in every human being. Man is not in any proper sense a "development" from former being, nor is his life merely a "continuance" of something which existed before.
Shall praise the Lord - Shall praise the Lord for what he has now done; shall learn, from the great principles now illustrated in regard to his administration, to praise him. |
| Commentary on the Old Testament, by Carl Friedrich Keil and Franz Delitzsch [1857-78] |
| The poet goes on advancing motives to Jahve for the fulfilment of his desire, by holding up to Him what will take place when He shall have restored Zion. The evangel of God's redemptive deed will be written down for succeeding generations, and a new, created people, i.e., a people coming into existence, the church of the future, shall praise God the Redeemer for it. דּור אחרון as in Psa 48:14; Psa 78:4. עם נברא like עם נולד Ps 22:32, perhaps with reference to deutero-Isaianic passages like Isa 43:17. On Psa 102:20, cf. Isa 63:15; in Psa 102:21 (cf. Isa 42:7; Isa 61:1) the deutero-Isaianic colouring is very evident. And Psa 102:21 rests still more verbally upon Psa 79:11. The people of the Exile are as it were in prison and chains (אסיר), and are advancing towards their destruction (בּני תמוּתה), if God does not interpose. Those who have returned home are the subject to לספּר. בּ in Psa 102:23 introduces that which takes place simultaneously: with the release of Israel from servitude is united the conversion of the world. נקבּץ occurs in the same connection as in Isa 60:4. After having thus revelled in the glory of the time of redemption the poet comes back to himself and gives form to his prayer on his own behalf. |
| Explanatory Notes on the Whole Bible, by John Wesley [1754-65] |
| This - This wonderful deliverance shall be carefully recorded by thy people. |
| Adam Clarke Commentary on the Whole Bible - Published 1810-1826 |
| The people which shall be created - "The Gentiles, who shall be brought to the knowledge of salvation by Christ," as the Syriac states in its inscription to this Psalm: how often the conversion of the soul to God is represented as a new creation, no reader of the New Testament need be told. See Eph 2:10; Eph 4:24; Co2 5:17; Gal 6:15. Even the publication of the Gospel, and its influence among men, is represented under the notion of "creating a new heaven and a new earth," Isa 65:17, Isa 65:18. |
31 They shall come [0935], and shall declare [05046] his righteousness [06666] unto a people [05971] that shall be born [03205], that he hath done [06213] this.
4 Lift up [05375] thine eyes [05869] round about [05439], and see [07200]: all they gather themselves together [06908], they come [0935] to thee: thy sons [01121] shall come [0935] from far [07350], and thy daughters [01323] shall be nursed [0539] at thy side [06654].
23 He weakened [06031] my strength [03581] in the way [01870]; he shortened [07114] my days [03117].
11 Let the sighing [0603] of the prisoner [0615] come [0935] before [06440] thee; according to the greatness [01433] of thy power [02220] preserve [03498] thou those that are appointed [01121] to die [08546];
21 To declare [05608] the name [08034] of the LORD [03068] in Zion [06726], and his praise [08416] in Jerusalem [03389];
1 The Spirit [07307] of the Lord [0136] GOD [03069] is upon me; because the LORD [03068] hath anointed [04886] me to preach good tidings [01319] unto the meek [06035]; he hath sent [07971] me to bind up [02280] the brokenhearted [07665] [03820], to proclaim [07121] liberty [01865] to the captives [07617], and the opening of the prison [06495] to them that are bound [0631];
7 To open [06491] the blind [05787] eyes [05869], to bring out [03318] the prisoners [0616] from the prison [04525], and them that sit [03427] in darkness [02822] out of the prison [03608] house [01004].
21 To declare [05608] the name [08034] of the LORD [03068] in Zion [06726], and his praise [08416] in Jerusalem [03389];
15 Look down [05027] from heaven [08064], and behold [07200] from the habitation [02073] of thy holiness [06944] and of thy glory [08597]: where is thy zeal [07068] and thy strength [01369], the sounding [01995] of thy bowels [04578] and of thy mercies [07356] toward me? are they restrained [0662]?
20 To hear [08085] the groaning [0603] of the prisoner [0615]; to loose [06605] those that are appointed [01121] to death [08546];
17 Which bringeth forth [03318] the chariot [07393] and horse [05483], the army [02428] and the power [05808]; they shall lie down [07901] together [03162], they shall not rise [06965]: they are extinct [01846], they are quenched [03518] as tow [06594].
4 We will not hide [03582] them from their children [01121], shewing [05608] to the generation [01755] to come [0314] the praises [08416] of the LORD [03068], and his strength [05807], and his wonderful works [06381] that he hath done [06213].
14 For this God [0430] is our God [0430] for ever [05769] and ever [05703]: he will be our guide [05090] even unto death [04192].
18 But be ye glad [07797] and rejoice [01523] for ever [05703] in that which I create [01254]: for, behold, I create [01254] Jerusalem [03389] a rejoicing [01525], and her people [05971] a joy [04885].
17 For, behold, I create [01254] new [02319] heavens [08064] and a new [02319] earth [0776]: and the former [07223] shall not be remembered [02142], nor come [05927] into mind [03820].
15 For [1063] in [1722] Christ [5547] Jesus [2424] neither [3777] circumcision [4061] availeth [2480] any thing [5100], nor [3777] uncircumcision [203], but [235] a new [2537] creature [2937].
17 Therefore [5620] if any man [1536] be in [1722] Christ [5547], he is a new [2537] creature [2937]: old things [744] are passed away [3928]; behold [2400], all things [3956] are become [1096] new [2537].
24 And [2532] that ye put on [1746] the new [2537] man [444], which [3588] after [2596] God [2316] is created [2936] in [1722] righteousness [1343] and [2532] true [225] holiness [3742].
10 For [1063] we are [2070] his [846] workmanship [4161], created [2936] in [1722] Christ [5547] Jesus [2424] unto [1909] good [18] works [2041], which [3739] God [2316] hath before ordained [4282] that [2443] we should walk [4043] in [1722] them [846].