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Psalm 102:12
But you, LORD, will remain forever; your renown endures to all generations.
10because of your indignation and your wrath; for you have taken me up and thrown me away.
11My days are like a long shadow. I have withered like grass.
12But you, LORD, will remain forever; your renown endures to all generations.
13You will arise and have mercy on Zion, for it is time to have pity on her. Yes, the set time has come.
14For your servants take pleasure in her stones, and have pity on her dust.
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“But you” interrupts the account of withering days, drawing attention to YHWH’s permanence while the speaker’s suffering remains unresolved.
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Lamentations 5:19You, LORD, remain forever. Your throne is from generation to generation.Both address the LORD as the one who remains forever, extending their view across generations.
Exodus 3:15God said moreover to Moses, “You shall tell the children of Israel this, ‘The LORD, the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God …God declares his name and memorial enduring to all generations in Exodus; the psalm affirms that same endurance of his renown.
Psalm 135:13Your name, LORD, endures forever; your renown, LORD, throughout all generations.Both speak of the LORD’s enduring renown, using forever and all generations to describe its reach.
Hebrews 13:8Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever.The psalm declares that the LORD remains forever; Hebrews declares that Jesus Christ is the same across time.
Psalm 9:7But the LORD reigns forever. He has prepared his throne for judgment.Both affirm the LORD’s permanence, with Psalm 9 speaking of his reign and Psalm 102 of his enduring presence and renown.
Revelation 1:17–18When I saw him, I fell at his feet like a dead man. He laid his right hand on me, saying, “Don’t be afraid. I am the first and the last,Both speak of divine permanence: the LORD remains forever in the psalm, and Revelation’s speaker identifies himself as first and last.
Isaiah 44:6This is what the LORD, the King of Israel, and his Redeemer, the LORD of Armies, says: “I am the first, and I am the last; and besides me there is no God.The LORD’s permanence links these passages: he remains forever in the psalm and names himself first and last in Isaiah.
Isaiah 60:15“Whereas you have been forsaken and hated, so that no one passed through you, I will make you an eternal excellency, a joy of many generations.Both look across generations, though the psalm concerns God’s renown and Isaiah promises lasting joy to those once forsaken.
1 Peter 1:25but the Lord’s word endures forever.” This is the word of Good News which was preached to you.Both declare endurance forever, with the psalm speaking of the LORD and Peter speaking of the Lord’s word.
Psalm 90:1–2A Prayer by Moses, the man of God. Lord, you have been our dwelling place for all generations.Both address God across all generations, describing his enduring renown in Psalm 102 and his being a dwelling place in Psalm 90.
Psalm 102:24–27I said, “My God, don’t take me away in the middle of my days. Your years are throughout all generations.Both affirm God’s endurance across generations within the same lament over the speaker’s short and threatened life.
Job 10:5Are your days as the days of mortals, or your years as man’s years,The psalm declares God’s permanence; Job questions whether God’s days and years can be measured like human life.
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You do not have to hide frailty to confess that God endures. This declaration comes from within lament: YHWH remains forever.
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