We will now read three Psalms which speak of the Lord’s sufferings, not from God as in Psalm 22, but from people (Psa. 69; 102; 116).
The cries of the Lord as He suffered from people.
V.5 Could there be any fault found in His holy life? Certainly not. But He bore our sins, and confessed them as His own.
V.20 There was no one to pity or to comfort Him in His terrible sorrow and suffering.
V.21 How remarkable that we should read words like this, written long before the Lord Jesus lived here, and so perfectly fulfilled a thousand years after they were written by King David.
V.22 There will be terrible punishment on those who hated and crucified the Lord and have never repented.
V.32-36 There will be blessing for the humble, and for those that love His name.
Psalm 102
We learn more of the inner feelings of the Lord Jesus from the Old Testament than we do from the New Testament where the events actually took place!
V.1-11 We hear the Lord Himself in His deep grief as He is suffering for us on the cross.
V.12-22 God answers His cries and He is able to rejoice at the promise of life and a kingdom. It should make us praise the Lord ourselves, as we think of the suffering He went through, that we might have the joy of forgiveness, and of praising Him.
Up to verse 11, we have the sorrows of the Lord’s life, when He came the first time. But from verse 12 to 17, He is comforted when He thinks of the result of His work.
V.18 It will bring blessing to Israel and all the nations in the future millennium.
V.23 The Messiah,
V.25 The Creator.
V.24 The price He paid to redeem us!