Psalms 9:2. I will be glad and rejoice in thee: I will sing praise to thy name, O thou most High.
Get thee up, then, my soul, out of the dark places of thy despondency. Rise, my drooping spirit, to something higher and better. If thou canst not be glad in anything else, be glad in thy God, - be glad that thou hast a God, and such a God, and that he is thy God still. Whatever else thou mayest have lost, thou hast not lost him. "I will be glad and rejoice." The reduplication of the words indicates a double joy, - a double gladness, as the apostle says, "Rejoice in the Lord alway: and again I say, Rejoice." Be glad twice over, for you have double cause for rejoicing in the Lord.
Psalms 9:2. I will be glad and rejoice in thee: I will sing praise to thy name, O thou most High.
Get thee up, then, my soul, out of the dark places of thy despondency. Rise, my drooping spirit, to something higher and better. If thou canst not be glad in anything else, be glad in thy God, - be glad that thou hast a God, and such a God, and that he is thy God still. Whatever else thou mayest have lost, thou hast not lost him. "I will be glad and rejoice." The reduplication of the words indicates a double joy, - a double gladness, as the apostle says, "Rejoice in the Lord alway: and again I say, Rejoice." Be glad twice over, for you have double cause for rejoicing in the Lord.