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Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
The sorrows of death compassed me, and the pains of hell gat hold upon me: I found trouble and sorrow. Then called I upon the name of the LORD; O LORD, I beseech thee, deliver my soul. He felt as if he had been hunted. As in hunting, they sometimes surround the stag with dogs as with a cordon, so he says, “the sorrows of death compassed me. There...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
The sorrows of death compassed me, They were all round me. They made a circle. I could not find a break. They compassed me. Sorrows, deadly sorrows, the very sorrows of death. Psa_116:3. And the pains of hell gat hold upon me: They came inside the circle and they gripped me. I was like one that did lie under the lion. He seemed to bite and tear...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
The sorrows of death compassed me,— Just as the dogs surround the poor stag, and shut him in the fatal circle. Psa_116:3. And the pains of hell gat hold upon me:— They set their teeth into him as the dogs do into the stag. Psa_116:3. I found trouble and sorrow. He was in a double grief; he had trouble without and sorrow within, it was troubled...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
The sorrows of death compassed me, — “I seemed to be shut in, — surrounded by a circle of difficulties and terrors: ‘The sorrows of death compassed me,’” — Psa_116:3. And the pains of hell gat hold upon me: They seemed to seize him as a lion seizes his prey.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I found trouble and sorrow. Then called I upon the name of the LORD; O LORD, I beseech thee, deliver my soul. His prayer was a very short one, but very much to the point. Words make not prayer; they often burden it, and prevent it from flying. “Prayer is the soul’s sincere desire;” —and David, in a few earnest words, expressed that desire: “O...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
The sorrows of death compassed me, “They formed a ring around me, from which I could see no way of escape. I was like a wounded stag that is surrounded by fierce dogs.” Psa_116:3. And the pains of hell gat hold upon me: “The dogs of hell had fixed their cruel teeth in my throat so that it seemed impossible for me to escape from them.” Psa_116:3. I...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
The sorrows of death compassed me, and the pains of hell gat hold upon me: I found trouble and sorrow. Then called I upon the name of the LORD; O LORD, I beseech thee, deliver my soul. His petition was short, earnest, plain, and personal. It was a sharp arrow shot from the bow of prayer, and it reached its mark in the heart of God. Are any of you...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
The sorrows of death compassed me, and the pains of hell got hold upon me: I found trouble and sorrow. Then called I upon the name of the LORD; Dark days are good days for praying; when your eyes cannot see, you pray all the better; when there is no earthly prop to lean upon you are all the more ready to lean upon God alone. The psalmist was like...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Then called I upon the name of the Lord,.... Upon the Lord himself in prayer for speedy deliverance; or "in the name of the Lord" (h), in the name of the Messiah, the only Mediator between God and man; "saying", as follows, and which word may be supplied, O Lord, I beseech thee, deliver my soul; from these sorrows and pains, from these afflictions...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Then called I upon the name of the LORD; The most canonical hour for prayer is the time of our greatest distress. When you can do nothing else but pray, then is the very best time to pray. When you seem shut up to prayer, what a blessed shutting up it is! “Then called I upon the name of the Lord.” And what was his prayer? Very short: very full: a...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Then called I upon the name of the LORD;— That was the very best time to pray. Satan does his utmost to prevent our praying when we are in extremities; but, oh! dear friends, if Jonah prayed in the whale’s belly, where can you and I be where we may not and cannot pray? If we sat down upon the very door-step of Hades; yea, if the pit did open her...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Then called I upon the name of the LORD; O LORD, I beseech thee, deliver my soul. Do you remember, dear friend, when you prayed such a prayer as that,-short, sharp, sincere, pointed, personal, out of the depths of your soul? Then, let your recollection of that prayer have so gracious an influence upon your heart that, in the remembrance of the...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
O LORD, I beseech thee, deliver my soul. He did not have to search for a form of prayer, his words were such as came naturally to his mind; and that is the best sort of prayer which arises out of the heart’s sincere desire.
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Gracious is the Lord,.... So the psalmist found him, calling upon him; so he is in Christ, the author and giver of all grace, to help in time of need. And righteous; faithful to his promises, just in every dispensation of his providence, even in afflictive ones; righteous in punishing the enemies of his people, and in saving, justifying, and...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Gracious is the LORD, and righteous; Wonderful combination — gracious and yet righteous. And if you want to know how this can be, look at Calvary, where Jesus dies that we may live. “Oh! the sweet wonders of that cross, where God the Saviour loved and died” — where there was the justice of God to the full, and the mercy of God without bound....
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Yea, our God is merciful. The LORD preserveth the simple: Those that have such a deal of wit may take care of themselves, but “the Lord preserveth the simple,” the straightforward, the plain-minded — those who believe his word without raising questions. “The Lord preserveth the simple.”
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Gracious is the LORD, and righteous; A curious mixture. You will never understand it until you stand at the foot of the cross. Psa_116:5. Yea, our God is merciful. That is the practical outcome of the holy conjunction of grace and righteousness in the atoning sacrifice of Christ. “Our God is merciful.” Sometimes when people cannot read well, they...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Gracious is the LORD, and righteous;— That is a strange combination which the ungodly cannot understand. It is a riddle never to be read except at the cross: “Gracious is the Lord, and righteous.” That is what every troubled conscience wants to know,— how God can be just and yet can pardon sin; but we who have believed in Jesus do know that, and...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Gracious is the LORD, and righteous; yea, our God is merciful. All who have ever tried him have proved him to be so, — merciful to forgive our sin, — merciful to help us in the time of trouble, - merciful to strengthen us in the performance of our duty: “Our God is merciful.”
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Gracious is the LORD, and righteous; yea, our God is merciful. Listen to that blessed little sentence, those of you who are full of sin, and who are therefore afraid that God will cast you away for ever: “Out God is merciful.”