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A Prayer from Frailty to Eternity
The psalmist's plea, "take me not away in the midst of my days," is a cry from a place of human weakness. Commentators explain that this prayer is directed to God precisely because His "years are throughout all generations." The prayer finds its power by contrasting our fleeting, fragile lives with God's eternal, unchanging nature.
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Albert Barnes
On Psalms 102:24
18th Century
Theologian
I said, O my God, take me not away in the midst of my days - This was the burden of my prayer, for this I earnestly pleaded. See Ps…
Charles Ellicott
On Psalms 102:24
19th Century
Bishop
Take me not away. — The fear of not living to see the restoration of his people prompts the psalmist to this prayer to the God whose years…
Charles Spurgeon
On Psalm 102:24–27
19th Century
Preacher
I said, O my God, do not take me away in the midst of my days: your years are throughout all generations. Of old you have laid the foundations …
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John Gill
On Psalms 102:24
17th Century
Pastor
I said, O my God, take me not away in the midst of my days ;
&c.] Which was always reckoned as a judgment, as a toke…
Matthew Henry
On Psalms 102:23–28
17th Century
Minister
Bodily illnesses soon weaken our strength, then what can we expect but that our months should be cut short; and what should we do but prepare accor…