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John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
INTRODUCTION TO Psalms 107 This psalm, from its style, and from its connection with the preceding psalms, seems to have been written by David. The two foregoing psalms respect the children of Israel; this is generally thought to concern all mankind, and its view to assert a general providence which attends all, in whatsoever condition and...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
O give thanks unto the Lord,.... As all men should do, at all times and for all things; the psalm begins as the former does, and gives the same reasons for thanksgiving. For he is good; and does good, and is the author of all good. For his mercy endureth for ever; and men in every age are partakers of it.
Matthew Henry - Complete Commentary - Matthew Henry
The psalmist, having in the two foregoing psalms celebrated the wisdom, power, and goodness of God, in his dealings with his church in particular, here observes some of the instances of his providential care of the children of men in general, especially in their distresses; for he is not only King of saints, but King of nations, not only the God...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
O give thanks unto the LORD, for he is good: for his mercy endureth for ever. In the heading of this Psalm we are reminded that the psalmist here exhorts the redeemed, in praising God, to observe his manifold providence over travelers, prisoners, sick men, seamen, “and in divers varieties of life;” but, inasmuch as the exhortation is specially...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
O give thanks unto the LORD, for he is good: for his mercy endureth for ever. Because we are sinners God’s goodness takes the form of mercy. Mercy —this was what we wanted; therefore, instead of mere benevolence towards the good, God’s love takes the form of mercy towards the guilty, and this mercy is for ever — it always was, always is, and...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
O give thanks unto the LORD, for he is good: He is essentially good. His name God is only a shorter form of good. Yet, if we were to lengthen it, there could be no more goodness found in it than is found in the three letters, “God.” Psa_107:1. For his mercy endureth for ever. That is the form which his goodness takes in relation to us, his sinful...
Spurgeon - Treasury of David - Charles H. Spurgeon
Ver. 1. O give thanks unto the Lord, for he is good. It is all we can give him, and the least we can give; therefore let us diligently render to him our thanksgiving. The psalmist is in earnest in the exhortation, hence the use of the interjection "O", to intensity his words: let us be at all times thoroughly fervent in the praises of the Lord,...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Let the redeemed of the Lord say so,.... That the Lord is good, and his mercy everlasting; since their redemption is a proof of his goodness, and an instance of his mercy; this is not to be understood of the Israelites redeemed from Egyptian bondage, or from the Babylonish captivity, though they had abundant reason to say as above; but rather of...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Let the redeemed of the LORD say so, whom he hath redeemed from the hand of the enemy; and gathered them out of the lands, from the east, and from the west, from the north, and from the south. Whenever God’s people are redeemed from the hand of the enemy, and gathered unto himself, it is always by his grace and power. They are not only gathered to...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Let the redeemed of the LORD say so, whom he hath redeemed from the hand of the enemy; Let the redeemed be the first to sing, and let them sing the sweetest of all. O children of God, you are meant to be leaders in the chorus of God’s praise. All nature is a great organ, and if you be what you should be, you are the men whose fingers of gratitude...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Let the redeemed of the Lord say so, whom he hath redeemed from the hand of the enemy; If nobody else will say that God is good, let his redeemed ones say it. If others are silent, let them speak to his praise, if others are doubtful, let them declare positively that the Lord is good, and that his mercy endureth for ever.
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
And gathered them out of the lands,.... This cannot have respect to the bringing of the children of Israel out of Egypt; for they were not then brought out of several countries, but from one land only: nor to the Babylonish captivity; for, though some might be gathered out of different provinces, yet not from east, west, north, and south, as here...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And gathered them out of the lands, from the east, and from the west, from the north, and from the south. It is a part of redemption’s work to gather out all people — fetch them into a separated condition. The voice of redemption sounds — “come out from among them and be ye separate. Touch not the unclean thing.” And the hand of redemption gathers...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And gathered them out of the lands, from the east, and from the west, from the north, and from the south. We were scattered in various directions by our own folly and sin;-“ Each wandering in a different way, but all the downward road;-and he gathered us unto that blessed Shiloh of whom Jacob said, “Unto him shall the gathering of the people be.”
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
They wandered in the wilderness in a solitary way,.... Not the people of Israel, as the Targum. These seem not to be particularly intended, whatever allusion there may be to their passage through the wilderness to Canaan's land; but rather, in general, travellers through waste places, especially the wild deserts of Arabia; where the wind blowing...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
They wandered in the wilderness in a solitary way; they found no city to dwell in. This is the experience of all God’s redeemed and gathered ones; they were, at one time, all lost, and wandering to and fro in the wilderness, as God’s ancient people did.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
They wandered in the wilderness in a solitary way; they found no city to dwell in. Hungry and thirsty, their soul fainted in them. Then they cried unto the LORD in their trouble, and he delivered them out of their distresses. Some of you know what this means. You have lost your way. You know not how to find it. Spiritually you are in a wilderness,...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
They wandered in the wilderness in a solitary way; Ah, the way of a sinner, convinced of sin, is indeed a solitary way; he has a sorrow which he cannot tell to anybody else, a stranger intermeddleth not with his grief Psa_107:4. They found no city to dwell in. There are no cities in the wilderness for people to dwell in. We look for a city that is...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Hungry and thirsty,.... As travellers in deserts sometimes are; their provisions being spent they bring with them, and none to be had on the road; there being no inns to stop at, nor any sort of food to eat, nor springs of water to drink of. In such a condition are souls, when, like the prodigal, they come to themselves, and are thoroughly...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Hungry and thirsty, their soul fainted in them. Then they cried unto the LORD in their trouble, and he delivered them out of their distresses. This is the point to which a true spiritual experience sooner or later brings all God’s elect ones; they cry unto the Lord in their trouble. The end, the design of their trouble is that they may cry unto...