16 When the Lord shall build up Zion, and shall appear [a]in his glory,

17 And shall turn unto the prayer of the desolate, and not despise their prayer.

18 This shall be written for the generation to come: and the people which shall be [b]created, shall praise the Lord.

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 102:16 That is, when he shall have drawn his church out of the darkness of death.
  2. Psalm 102:18 The deliverance of the Church is a most excellent benefit, and therefore he compareth it to a new creation: for in their banishment the body of the Church seemed to have been dead, which by deliverance was as it were created anew.

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