Keil and Delitzsch Commentary - Psalms 102:12 - 102:12

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Keil and Delitzsch Commentary - Psalms 102:12 - 102:12


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When the church in its individual members dies off on a foreign soil, still its God, the unchangeable One, remains, and therein the promise has the guarantee of its fulfilment. Faith lays hold upon this guarantee as in Ps 90. It becomes clear from Psa 9:8 and Lam 5:19 how תֵּשֵׁב is to be understood. The Name which Jahve makes Himself by self-attestation never falls a prey to the dead past, it is His ever-living memorial (זֵכֶר, Exo 3:15). Thus, too, will He restore Jerusalem; the limit, or appointed time, to which the promise points is, as his longing tells the poet, now come. מֹועֵד, according to Psa 75:3; Hab 2:3, is the juncture, when the redemption by means of the judgment on the enemies of Israel shall dawn. לְחֻנְנָהּ, from the infinitive חֲנַן, has ĕ, flattened from ă, in an entirely closed syllable. רָצָה seq. acc. signifies to have pleasure in anything, to cling to it with delight; and חֹנֵן, according to Pro 14:21, affirms a compassionate, tender love of the object. The servants of God do not feel at home in Babylon, but their loving yearning lingers over the ruins, the stones and the heaps of the rubbish (Neh 4:2), of Jerusalem.