Calling on the Name of the Lord by Gary Millar

Author:Gary Millar [Millar, Gary]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: InterVarsity Press
Published: 2016-11-14T16:00:00+00:00

In many ways this psalm is the crucial test case for my suggestion that the fundamental view of prayer in the psalter coheres with that of the earlier parts of the Old Testament. As with a large number of psalms, there is no explicit reference to David (or any other king), although there is obvious contact with Psalm 86, as noted above.35

The title seems to imply that the individual who wrote this psalm is just that – an individual, with no particular role to play in the key movements of salvation history. Although his suffering seems extreme (102:4–6), his significance is simply derived from his membership of the people of God (see vv. 14, 17). Unlike the Davidic tĕpillîm, there is no direct identification of his enemies with God’s enemies.36 This is a different kind of prayer, which becomes obvious when we differentiate what the psalmist prays for himself from what he asks Yahweh to do in general.

When praying for himself, after the initial request that Yahweh listen to his cry (102:1–2), the only specific request the psalmist makes comes in verses 24–25:

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