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John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
INTRODUCTION TO Psalms 116 Theodoret applies this psalm to the distresses of the Jews in the times of the Maccabees under Antiochus Epiphanes; and R. Obadiah interprets some passages in it of the Grecians of those times; but it rather seems to have been written by David on account of some troubles of his, out of which he was delivered; and refers...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
I love the Lord,.... As the Messiah, David's antitype, did; of which he gave the fullest proof by his obedience to his will; and as David, the man after God's own heart, did, and as every good man does; and the Lord is to be loved for the perfections of his nature, and especially as they are displayed in Christ, and salvation by him; and for his...
Matthew Henry - Complete Commentary - Matthew Henry
This is a thanksgiving psalm; it is not certain whether David penned it upon any particular occasion or upon a general review of the many gracious deliverances God had wrought for him, out of six troubles and seven, which deliverances draw from him many very lively expressions of devotion, love, and gratitude; and with similar pious affections our...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I love the LORD, because he hath heard my voice and my supplications. You cannot help loving God if he has heard your prayers. Have you tried him? If you have, you can join with David and thousands of others in confessing that he is a prayer-hearing God, and therefore you love him. I find the verse might be read, “I love the Lord, because he...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I love the Lord, Can you say that? “Yea, Lord, thou knowest all things. Thou knowest that I love thee.” “I love the Lord.” Love is said to be blind, but not love to God. Love to God can see, and it can give a reason for its own existence, and a good substantial reason too. “I love the Lord.” Psa_116:1. Because he hath heard my voice and my...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I love the LORD, because he hath heard my voice and my supplications. It is a great condescension on God’s part to listen to us. You know what a comfort it is to find a sympathetic listener, who will let you tell out your griefs. It is not wise to tell them to everybody; but there are some who have an ear into which it is both pleasant and...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I love the LORD, because he hath heard my voice and my supplications. Answered prayer is a good reason for loving God. David was in his right senses; and he was, by no means, a fool, yet he declared that God had answered his prayer, and, therefore, he loved him. And this is not only David’s experience, but there are thousands of us who can say...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I love the LORD, because he hath heard my voice and my supplications. If this double declaration is true, it turns the reading of the Psalm into a devout spiritual exercise for each one of us who can rightly adopt the psalmist’s language. But can each one of us truthfully say, “Lord, thou knowest all things; thou knowest that I love thee”? If I...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I love the LORD, because he hath heard my voice and my supplications. Every answered prayer should make us love the Lord, and especially those prayers that come up from our heart when it is overwhelmed within us. When we pray in deep trouble, and God sends us help and deliverance, it is impossible for us not to love him. Cannot each believer here...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I love the LORD, Let us go as far as that if we can; let us each one say, “I love the Lord.” Psa_116:1. Because — There is a reason for this love. People say that love is blind, but love to God uses her eyes, and can justify herself: “I love the Lord, because” — Psa_116:1. He hath heard my voice and my supplications. Can you go as far as that? Do...
Spurgeon - Treasury of David - Charles H. Spurgeon
Ver. 1. I love the LORD. A blessed declaration: every believer ought to be able to declare without the slightest hesitation, "I love the Lord." It was required under the law, but was never produced in the heart of man except by the grace of God, and upon gospel principles. It is a great thing to say "I love the Lord"; for the sweetest of all...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Because he hath inclined his ear unto me,.... Not as hard of hearing, for his ear is not heavy that it cannot hear; he is quick of hearing, and his ears are always open to the righteous; it rather denotes his readiness to hear; he hearkens and hears, he listens to what his people say, and hears them at once, and understands them, though ever so...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Because he hath inclined his ear unto me, therefore will I call upon him as long as I live. “He hath inclined his ear” — stooped down, as it were, as you do to a sick person to catch his faintest word. “He hath inclined his ear.” He has heard my prayer, when I could hardly hear it myself. When it was such a broken prayer, such a feeble prayer,...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Because he hath inclined his ear unto me, therefore will I call upon him as long as I live. “Because.” He harps on that string. It is so sweet a note that he touches it again: “Because he hath inclined his ear unto me”: stooped out of heaven. He has laid his ear down to my lips. He has caught my wandering utterances. He hath inclined his ear. My...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Because he hath inclined his ear unto me, therefore will I call upon him as long as I live. That same blessed experience which is a reason for love is also an argument for continued prayer. “As he has heard me, he shall still hear me; as he has listened to me, he shall listen to me again; — at least, it shall not be for want of my cries that he...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Because he hath inclined his ear unto me, therefore will I call upon him as long as I live. If a beggar in the street were to say to us, “Because you have relieved me once, I will beg of you as long as I live,” we should not be pleased to hear him say that, but God loves to hear us say that to him. He wishes us to resolve that, because we have...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Because he hath inclined his ear unto me, therefore will I call upon him as long as I live. “Whatever others may do or may not do, I will call upon him as long as I live, and I have a good reason for doing so, ‘ Because he hath inclined his ear unto me.’ He has stooped from his throne in heaven to hearken to my feeble accents, he has bowed himself...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Because he hath inclined his ear unto me, therefore will I call upon him as long as I live. “This begging business pays so well that I will never give it up as long as I live. The Lord has heard me, so he shall hear me again and again. He is so good and so generous a God, and such bounties are continually being distributed at his door, that I will...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Because he hath inclined his ear unto me, therefore will I call upon him as long as I live. That is a vow which we may well make, and hope for grace to keep it. It means that, as we have succeeded so well in begging at God’s door, we will keep on begging of him as long as we live. I suppose the psalmist meant that, because Jehovah had heard him,...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
The sorrows of death compassed me,.... Christ, of whom David was a type, was a man of sorrows all his days; and in the garden he was surrounded with sorrow; exceeding sorrowful even unto death, in a view of the sins of his people imputed to him, and under a sense of wrath for them, he was about to bear; and his agonies in the article of death were...