Matthew Poole and continuators on Psalms 102:24

24 I said, O my God; take me not away in the midst of my days : thy years are throughout all generations .

Do not wholly cut off and destroy thy people of Israel.

Before they come to a full age and stature, and to the plenary possession of thy promises, and especially of that great and fundamental promise of the Messiah in and by whom alone their happiness is to be compleated, and until whose coming thy Church is in its nonage; of which see Gal. 4. 1, 2, 3, 4. Possibly the Psalmist (whom some learned Interpreters suppose to be Daniel) may have respect to that Prophecy, Dan. 9. 24, 25. which probably was published before this time: for this time was almost precisely the midst of the days between the building of the material Temple by Solomon, and the building of the spiritual Temple or the Church by the Messias; there being about a thousand years distance between those two periods whereof seventy Prophetical Weeks, or four hundred and ninety years were yet to come. And so he prays that God would not root them out in this Babylonish Captivity, but would graciously restore them to their own land and preserve them as a Church and Nation there until the coming of the Messias.

Though we successively die and perish, yet thou art the everlasting and unchangeable God, and therefore art and wilt ever be able to deliver thy people, and faithful in performing all thy promises; and therefore we beseech thee to pity our frail and languishing state, and give us a more setled and lasting felicity than yet we have enjoyed; and therefore we trust that thy people shall continue and be established before thee, as he saith, v. 28. because as thou art the everlasting God, so thou hast made an Everlasting Covenant with them, Psal. 105. 10. Isa. 55. 3. Ier. 32. 40. to be their God for ever; and therefore thou wilt not now forsake or reject us.

Marginal references: Job 36. 20▪ Heb.