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Psalms 102:13
You will rise up and have compassion on Zion, for it is time to show her favor—the appointed time has come.
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — The psalmist, having just affirmed God's eternal throne (v. 12), shifts from personal lament to a public declaration that God will act on Zion's behalf. The moment is the hinge between the suppliant's own decay and the community's restoration.
The words — עֵת ('et) means "appointed time" or "season," not merely a generic moment but a divinely fixed point; it is the hinge of the verse, the word that turns "you will rise" from hope into schedule.
The thread — Galatians 4:4 echoes the same logic of a fixed divine timing ("when the time had fully come"); Isaiah 40:2 declares that the period of forced labor is complete; Psalms 44:26 is the rawer form of the same plea, "Rise up; be our help."
Why it lands — The psalmist does not ask God to act; he asserts that the time is fixed and the action is certain, which forces the reader to confront whether they are living as if that appointment is real or treating it as a distant abstraction.
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The Hebrew words
King James Version
Thou shalt arise, and have mercy upon Zion: for the time to favour her, yea, the set time, is come.
Cross-references
- Galatians 4:4 But when the time had fully come, God sent His Son, born of a woman, born under the law,
- Psalms 44:26 Rise up; be our help! Redeem us on account of Your loving devotion.
- Isaiah 40:2 “Speak tenderly to Jerusalem, and proclaim to her that her forced labor has been completed; her iniquity has been pardoned. For she has received from the hand of the LORD double for all her sins.”
- Isaiah 60:1 Arise, shine, for your light has come, and the glory of the LORD rises upon you.
- Zechariah 2:10 “Shout for joy and be glad, O Daughter of Zion, for I am coming to dwell among you,” declares the LORD.
- Psalms 69:35 For God will save Zion and rebuild the cities of Judah, that they may dwell there and possess it.
- Isaiah 60:10 Foreigners will rebuild your walls, and their kings will serve you. Although I struck you in anger, yet in favor I will show you mercy.
- 2 Peter 3:8 Beloved, do not let this one thing escape your notice: With the Lord a day is like a thousand years, and a thousand years are like a day.
- Acts 1:7 Jesus replied, “It is not for you to know times or seasons that the Father has fixed by His own authority.
- Revelation 11:15 Then the seventh angel sounded his trumpet, and loud voices called out in heaven: “The kingdom of the world has become the kingdom of our Lord and of His Christ, and He will reign forever and ever.”