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John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
INTRODUCTION TO Psalms 6 To the chief Musician on Neginoth upon Sheminith, a Psalm of David. What is designed by "the chief musician", and what is meant by "neginoth", have been observed preciously, [See comments on Psalms 4:1]. As for "sheminith", it seems to be one particular sort of the "neginoth", or stringed instrument, which this man had the...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
O Lord, rebuke me not in thine anger, The Lord sometimes rebukes or reproves men by his spirit, and sometimes by his word and ministers, and sometimes by his providences, and that on account of sin; to bring to a sense and acknowledgment of it; and particularly for remissness in duty, or neglect of it; and for trusting in the creature, or in any...
Matthew Henry - Complete Commentary - Matthew Henry
David was a weeping prophet as well as Jeremiah, and this psalm is one of his lamentations: either it was penned in a time, or at least calculated for a time, of great trouble, both outward and inward. Is any afflicted? Is any sick? Let him sing this psalm. The method of this psalm is very observable, and what we shall often meet with. He begins...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
O LORD, rebuke me not in thine anger, “Rebuke me; it will do me good; I need it; but not in anger. Be gentle and tender with me: ‘Rebuke me not in thine anger.’” Psa_6:1. Neither chasten me in thy hot displeasure. “Chasten me; it may be that the rod will be very curative to me; but let not the chastening be given in thy hot displeasure. Be not...
Spurgeon - Treasury of David - Charles H. Spurgeon
Ver. 1. Having read through the first division, in order to see it as a whole, we will now look at it verse by verse. Lord, rebuke me not in thine anger. The Psalmist is very conscious that he deserves to be rebuked, and he feels, moreover, that the rebuke in some form or other must come upon him, if not for condemnation, yet for conviction and...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Have mercy upon me, O Lord,.... He knew he was a sinner, both by original sin and actual transgression, which he was always ready to own; he knew that what he had done deserved the wrath of God, even his hot displeasure; and that for such things it came upon the children of disobedience: he knew that there was mercy with God through Christ, and...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Have mercy upon me, O LORD; for I am weak: O LORD, heal me; for my bones are vexed. “Have mercy upon me, O Lord; for I am weak.” This was a sweet reason for David to urge: “For I am weak.” He could not say, “For I am worthy.” He would not have dared to say that. He could not say that when he said, “Have mercy,” for mercy is for the unworthy....
Spurgeon - Treasury of David - Charles H. Spurgeon
Ver. 2. Have mercy upon me, O Lord; for I am weak. Though I deserve destruction, yet let thy mercy pity my frailty. This is the right way to plead with God if we would prevail. Urge not your goodness or your greatness, but plead your sin and your littleness. Cry, "I am weak," therefore, O Lord, give me strength and crush me not. Send not forth the...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
My soul is also sore vexed,.... Or "exceedingly troubled" (c), and even frightened and thrown into a consternation with indwelling sin, and on account of actual transgressions, and by reason of the hidings of God's face, and through the temptations of Satan, and because of the fear of death; to which Old Testament saints were very incident. But...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
My soul is also sore vexed: That is worse than the bones being vexed. “The spirit of a man will sustain his infirmity; but a wounded spirit who can bear?” Psa_6:3. But thou, O LORD, how long? There is the pith of the prayer. David is troubled because God is away from him; he has lost communion with his Lord; he has got out of fellowship with his...
Spurgeon - Treasury of David - Charles H. Spurgeon
Ver. 3. O Lord, heal me; for my bones are vexed. Here he prays for healing, not merely the mitigation of the ills he endured, but their entire removal, and the curing of the wounds which had arisen therefrom. His bones were "shaken," as the Hebrew has it. His terror had become so great that his very bones shook; not only did his flesh quiver, but...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Return, O Lord,.... By this it seems that the Lord had withdrawn himself, and was departed from the psalmist, wherefore he entreats him to return unto him, and grant him his gracious presence. God is immense and omnipresent, he is everywhere: going away and returning cannot be properly ascribed to him; but he, nay be said to depart from his...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Return, O LORD, deliver my soul: oh save me for thy mercies’ sake. Will not that prayer suit you who are here tonight, you who are full of sin, and are heart-broken about it, and dread the wrath to come? I put this prayer into your mouths, and pray the Holy Spirit to put it into your hearts: “Oh save me for thy mercies’ sake.”
Spurgeon - Treasury of David - Charles H. Spurgeon
Ver. 4. Return, O Lord; deliver my soul. As God's absence was the main cause of his misery, so his return would be enough to deliver him from his trouble. save me for thy mercies' sake. He knows where to look, and what arm to lay hold upon. He does not lay hold on God's left hand of justice, but on his right hand of mercy. He knew his iniquity too...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
For in death [there is] no remembrance of thee,.... Of the goodness, truth, power, and faithfulness of God; no notice can be taken nor mention, made either of the perfections or works of God, whether of nature or of grace, by a dead man to others; he is wholly useless to men on earth with respect to these things; in the grave who shall give thee...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For in death there is no remembrance of thee: in the grave who shall give thee thanks? As much as to say, “If thou lettest me die, thou wilt lose one singer out of thy earthly choir; but if thou wilt let me live, I will remember thee; I will praise thee; I will give thee thanks.” Do you feel like saying tonight, “Lord, if thou shalt destroy me,...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
I am weary with my groanings,.... By reason of bodily illness, or indwelling sin, or the guilt of actual transgressions, or the hidings of God's face, or a sense of divine wrath, or the temptations of Satan, or afflictions and crosses of various kinds, or fears of death, or even earnest desires after heaven and eternal happiness, or the low estate...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I am weary with my groaning; all the night make I my bed to swim; I water my couch with my tears. David was in a very sorry case when he wrote these words. So great was his pain, so acute his sorrow, that all the sluices of his eyes were pulled up, and he seemed to float his bed in tears, and to be like George Herbert when he wrote: — “O who will...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Mine eye is consumed because of grief,.... Either by reason of the affliction he laboured under, which could not he joyous, but grievous; or because, of the sin that was in him, and those that he had committed, which were grieving to him; or through the sins of other professors of religion, or profane sinners, whom he beheld with grief of heart...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Mine eye is consumed because of grief; He had almost wept his eyes out; they grew red with his weeping, so that he could not see. Psa_6:7. It waxeth old because of all mine enemies. His eyesight grew dim, like that of an old man. A cataract of grief had put a cataract of blindness into his eyes.