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Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
O Israel, trust thou in the LORD: he is their help and their shield. O house of Aaron, trust in the LORD: he is their help and their shield. Ye that fear the LORD, trust in the LORD: he is their help and their shield. There is real help in the living Jah, Jehovah, real protection in him.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
O Israel, trust thou in the LORD: he is their help and their shield. O house of Aaron, trust in the LORD: he is their help and their shield. Ye that fear the LORD, trust in the LORD: he is their help and their shield. The first of this set of sentences seems to me to he addressed by way of exhortation, but the second is a sort of soliloquy in...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
O house of Aaron, trust in the Lord,.... The family of the tribe of Levi, that was separated from the rest, to minister in the priest's office, to offer gifts and sacrifices for the people, and to bless them; and therefore ought to trust in the Lord, and set a good example to others: as ministers of the word should, who are intrusted with much by...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Ye that fear the Lord, trust in the Lord,.... Which is said not to distinguish true saints from hypocrites, in Israel or in Aaron's house; rather to describe such who belonged to neither: but, as Aben Ezra interprets it, who feared the Lord, of every people and nation; or proselytes, as Jarchi explains it: the distinction between the people of the...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
The Lord hath been mindful of us,.... The Targum is, "the Word of the Lord hath remembered us for good.'' And is another reason why his people should trust in him: he has been mindful of his covenant with them and promises to them, and has kept them; he remembered them in their low estate, and sent redemption to them; goodness and mercy have...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
The LORD hath been mindful of us: he will bless us; There is a new year’s motto for you. It will go back through the old year, and forward into the new one: “The Lord bath been mindful of us: he will bless us.” See how mindful he has been of us all through the past year in a thousand ways. Long before we have known our wants, he has supplied them....
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
He will bless the house of Israel; he will bless the house of Aaron. He will bless them that fear the LORD, both small and great. Great blessings for small people, and not small blessings for those whom he maketh great in Israel.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
The LORD hath been mindful of us: he will bless us; he will bless the house of Israel; he will bless the house of Aaron. He had been mindful of Israel, and this guaranteed that he would still bless his people. “The times are dark and cloudy,” the psalmist seems to say, “but by his ancient mercies, our faith is established, and our hope encouraged.”
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
He will bless them that fear the Lord,.... They shall want no good thing now, and have much goodness laid up for them to be enjoyed hereafter; the sun of righteousness rises upon them, and a book of remembrance is written on their account; the Lord delights in them, his eye is upon them; and they are blessed with more grace now, and will be...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
He will bless them that fear the LORD, both small and great. Now little ones, look out for the blessing that is meant for you: “He will bless them that fear the Lord, both small and great.” Those who have but little faith, little joy, little grace, little growth, yet still he will bless.
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
The Lord shall increase you more and more,.... The Word of the Lord, as the Targum, shall do it; in a temporal sense, with a numerous posterity, with riches, wealth, and honour; and in a spiritual sense, with an addition of spiritual blessings; with renewed instances of divine layout: with an increase of the gifts and graces of the Spirit of God,...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
The LORD shall increase you more and more, you and your children. Ye are blessed of the LORD which made heaven and earth. This is the Creator’s blessing, therefore a real one. Many of you have had the new creation wrought in you: you shall live to see new heavens and a new earth.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
The LORD shall increase you more and more, you and your children. Ye are blessed of the LORD which made heaven and earth. The heaven, even the heavens, are the LORD’S: but the earth hath he given to the children of men. This may in part account for the fact that he is not known, and not honoured among men. He is himself in heaven; and, for a...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
You are blessed of the Lord,.... The Arabic version reads it, "we are blessed"; with temporal and with spiritual blessings; being the beloved of the Lord, chosen of him; whose sins are pardoned, whose persons are justified by the righteousness of Christ; who are put among the children of God, and are heirs of God, and joint heirs with Christ;...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
The heaven, even the heavens, are the Lord's,.... Not only the visible heavens, the airy and starry regions, which are within our sight; but the heaven of heavens, the third heaven, into which the Apostle Paul was caught, and heard and saw things not to be uttered; and which is, as the Targum expresses it, "for the majesty of the glory of the...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
The heaven, even the heavens, are the LORD’S: but the earth hath he given to the children of men. And they seem as if they meant to keep it, too. The sad thing is, that they get the earth into their hearts, and so they miss the blessing which the Lord intended them to receive from his gift of it.
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
The dead praise not the Lord,.... Not the dead in sin; such as the makers of idols, and those that trust in them, who are like unto them; men must be made spiritually alive, ere they can show forth the praises of God: nor the dead corporeally. The souls of departed saints can and do praise the Lord: these die not with their bodies, nor sleep in...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
The dead praise not the LORD, neither any that go down into silence. As far as this world is concerned, no note is heard from the grave
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
The dead praise not the LORD, No song comes up from that dark charnel house, no praise ascends to God from those that are asleep in the grave. The living among them praise him in heaven, but “the dead praise not the Lord.”
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Neither any that go down into silence. But we will bless the LORD from this time forth and for evermore. Praise the LORD. “Praise the Lord,” that is “Hallelujah.” The Psalm could not end with a better note than that; so may all our lives end, for our Lord Jesus Christ’s sake! Amen.