Mine enemies reproach me all the day; and they that are mad against me are sworn against me.
Psalm 102 is a psalm for the afflicted, standing among the songs of sorrow and affliction. Its sorrow belongs to the lot of the Hebrew captives in the Babylonian captivity, borne amid persecution and distress. The hostility it describes is continual, with enemies heaping reproach all the day and those maddened against the sufferer leagued together by oath against him.
At the same time the psalm carries encouragement and assurance of divine help, with eventual deliverance from persecutors. The plea for mercy in which this complaint is set is one that every true believer may take up as his own.
Psalm 102 is a psalm for the afflicted, standing among the songs of sorrow and affliction. Its sorrow belongs to the lot of the Hebrew captives in the Babylonian captivity, borne amid persecution and distress. The hostility it describes is continual, with enemies heaping reproach all the day and those maddened against the sufferer leagued together by oath against him.
At the same time the psalm carries encouragement and assurance of divine help, with eventual deliverance from persecutors. The plea for mercy in which this complaint is set is one that every true believer may take up as his own.