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John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
INTRODUCTION TO Psalms 142 Maschil of David; A Prayer when he was in the cave. Of the word "maschil", [See comments on Psalms 32:1], title. This psalm is called a prayer, as some others are, the ninetieth and hundred second psalms: and was composed by David when either in the cave of Adullam, 1 Samuel 22:1; or rather in the cave at Engedi, where...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
I cried unto the Lord with my voice,.... With the voice of his soul, in the language of his mind, mentally, as Moses and Hannah cried unto the Lord when no voice was heard, or articulate sounds expressed, since this prayer was put up to the Lord in the cave where Saul was; though it might have been delivered before he came into it, while he and...
Matthew Henry - Complete Commentary - Matthew Henry
This psalm is a prayer, the substance of which David offered up to God when he was forced by Saul to take shelter in a cave, and which he afterwards penned in this form. Here is, I. The complaint he makes to God (ver. 1, 2) of the subtlety, strength, and malice, of his enemies (ver. 3, 6), and the coldness and indifference of his friends, ver. 4....
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I cried unto the LORD with my voice; with my voice unto the LORD did I make my supplication. Silent prayers are often true prayers, but there are times when, in extremity of suffering, it is very helpful to give expression to the soul’s agony. I know some friends who can never pray to their own comfort except they can hear their own voices, and I...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I cried unto the LORD with my voice; with my voice unto the LORD did I make my supplication. Of course, the essence of his prayer was in his heart, but it often helps the heart to use the voice. It is much better to pray in silence if you will be heard by others, for we are not to pray to be heard of men, but if you have opportunity to pray aloud,...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I cried unto the LORD with my voice; with my voice unto the LORD did I make my supplication. I poured out my complaint before him; I shewed before him my trouble. David mentions that he prayed with his voice. This is an unimportant matter compared with praying with the heart; but when the heart is full of prayer, it is often very helpful to be...
Spurgeon - Treasury of David - Charles H. Spurgeon
Ver. 1. I cried unto the LORD with my voice. It was a cry of such anguish that he remembers it long after, and makes a record of it. In the loneliness of the cave he could use his voice as much as he pleased; and therefore he made its gloomy vaults echo with his appeals to heaven. When there was no soul in the cavern seeking his blood, David with...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
I poured out my complaint before him,.... Not a complaint of the Lord and of his providences, but of himself; of his sins, and particularly his unbelief; and also of them that persecuted and afflicted him; which he "poured" out from the abundance of his heart, and in the bitterness of his soul; denoting the fulness of his prayer, his freedom in...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I poured out my complaint before him; — That is a beautiful expression, “I poured out my complaint,” — just as you turn a pitcher upside down, and let all the contents run out: “I poured out my complaint.” We are generally ready enough to do that, only that, usually, we go to some friend, or to some enemy, and pour out our complaint into his ear....
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I poured out my complaint before him: As if it were in a vessel, and I turned the vessel upside down, and poured it all out. That is true prayer. It is the pouring out of what is really in; not an utterance of words which may, perhaps, go no farther than the mere lips, but the pouring out of whatever is within, whether it is praise or complaint....
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
When my spirit was overwhelmed within me,.... Ready to sink and faint under the present affliction, being attended with the hidings of God's face, and with unbelieving frames; which is sometimes the case of God's people, and with which they are as it were covered and overwhelmed, as well as with a sense of sin, and with shame and sorrow for it;...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
When my spirit was overwhelmed within me, then thou knewest my path. Many of the Lord’s saints know the meaning of that sentence: “My spirit was overwhelmed within me.” They are like a vessel that has sunk in the sea, and is completely covered by the waves. David was in such a plight as that, he did not know his own whereabouts, but here was the...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
In the way wherein I walked have they privily laid a snare for me. I looked on my right hand, and beheld, but there was no man that would know me: “They were afraid to link themselves with me, lest, when I went down like a drowning man, they should be dragged down with me.”
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
When my spirit was overwhelmed within me, then thou knewest my path. I did not know it. I was so puzzled — so in a maze, like a man at his wits’ end. My spirit seemed turned bottom upward, like a thing that is overwhelmed. Psa_142:3 In the way wherein I walked have they privily laid a snare for me. I could not find out where the snare was, but...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
When my spirit was overwhelmed within me, then thou knewest my path. “My spirit was so overwhelmed within me, that I did not know where I was, or what I was. I could not make head or tail of myself. I seemed to be like a skein of silk or wool in a tangle. My thoughts, as George Herbert would have said, were all a case of knives, sharp to cut and...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
In the way wherein I walked have they privily laid a snare for me. I looked on my right hand, and beheld, but there was no man that would know me: refuge failed me; no man cared for my soul. This is a terrible condition for anyone to be in, — to have every friend forsake you, — to find that those who used to know you best, do not want to know you...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
I looked on [my] right hand, and beheld,.... On the left, so Kimchi supplies it, and after him Piscator; he looked about him every way to the right and left, to see if he could get any help, or find out any way of deliverance. To this sense the Targum, Septuagint, Vulgate Latin, Syriac, and Arabic versions render the words; and so Kimchi and Aben...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Refuge failed me; “I could not run away; there was no place where I could find shelter.” Psa_142:4. No man cared for my soul. “They were all hard, cold, ungrateful, treacherous.”
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I looked on my right hand, and beheld, but there was no man that would know me: refuge failed me; no man cared for my soul. It is a bad time always when friendship seems to have died out, when those that we rely upon turn their backs upon us and refuse to sympathize with us in any degree. It is a sad case to be in. “No man cared for my soul.”
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
I cried unto thee, O Lord,.... Finding no help from man, he turns to the Lord, and directs his prayer to him in his distress; I said, thou [art] my refuge; as he was, from all his enemies that were in pursuit of him, and from the storm of calamities he apprehended was coming upon him: and a refuge the Lord is to all his people in time of trouble;...