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Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Gracious is the LORD, and righteous; yea, our God is merciful. The LORD preserveth the simple: I was brought low, and he helped me. Poor simpletons, who cannot help themselves, but who are, nevertheless, free from deceit and craft, and take God’s Word as they find it,-sincere simple souls, who trust in the Lord, he will take care of them, but he...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Gracious is the LORD, and righteous; yea, our God is merciful. The psalmist was delivered by an act of grace, yet it was an act of righteousness, for God is not unrighteous to break his own promise, and he has promised to help his people. Grace and righteousness both guarantee answers to believing prayers, and mercy comes in to make assurance...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
The Lord preserveth the simple,.... Such as have but a small degree of understanding, either in things natural or spiritual, in comparison of others; babes, as the Septuagint, Vulgate Latin, Syriac, Arabic, and Ethiopic versions render it, so in the Talmud (i); see Matthew 11:25. Such who are sensible of their lack of wisdom, and what they have...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I was brought low and he helped me. Oh! many of you can say this, I trust, and if you cannot I hope you will before long — “I was brought low, and he helped me.”
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
The LORD preserveth the simple: You clever men take heed of this. “The Lord preserveth the simple” — the plain, hearty, honest, sincere, sometimes ridiculed for their want of cunning. God takes care of them. Psa_116:6. I was brought low, and he helped me. What a sweet thing it is when you have studied a general doctrine to be able to give yourself...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
The LORD preserveth the simple: The sincere,— sometimes, the ignorant, those who do not pretend to know; or, the simple, those from whose heart the Lord has driven out all guile, making them to be simple-minded. They are such fools (as the world calls them) as to be believers in the Lord Jesus Christ, and that is to perform the highest act of...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
The LORD preserveth the simple: Those who are of a single mind, — who have no double meanings and concealed motives, — those who know their own ignorance and weakness, and who, therefore, dare not trust in themselves. Psa_116:6. I was brought low, and he helped me. David could speak for himself, and he did so without the slightest hesitation. Can...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
The LORD preserveth the simple: I was brought low, and he helped me. There is here, first, a general doctrine; and, then, there is a particular proof and application of it. It is true, in a general sense, that the Lord preserveth the simple-hearted ones who have learned to trust in him; but, in particular, you or I, if saved by his grace, can say,...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
The LORD preserveth the simple: Straightforward men, those who cannot play a double part, those simpletons whom others take in and laugh at because they are honest, true, genuine, — the Lord preserveth such people. Psa_116:6. I was brought low, and he helped me. Oh, these blessed personal pronouns, are you laying hold of them as I read them? Are...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Return unto thy rest, O my soul,.... To a quiet and tranquil state after much distress (k); a soliloquy, an address to his own soul to return to God his resting place, as Kimchi; or to Christ, whose rest is glorious, and which lies in a cessation from a man's own works; not from doing them, but from depending on them, or from labouring for life by...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Return unto thy rest, O my soul; for the LORD hath dealt bountifully with thee. Come back. He is a good God. Why wander? Return unto thy first husband, for it was better with thee than now. He has been bountiful. My soul lives on his bounty again.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Return unto thy rest, O my soul; for the LORD hath dealt bountifully with thee. Poor dove! thou art dropping into the water; thy wings can scarcely sustain thee; come back to Noah: “Return unto thy Noah, O my soul!” That is the Old Testament reading of it, and the New Testament rendering is, “Return unto thy Jesus, O my soul, for he is thy true...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Return unto thy rest, O my soul; for the LORD hath dealt bountifully with thee. Man’s soul is like the dove that Noah sent out from the ark. It flew over the wide waste of waters, seeking rest, but finding none, so, at last, with weary wing, it made its way back to the ark; and, soul, thou wilt never rest till thou comest back to thy Creator and...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Return unto thy rest, O my soul; for the LORD hath dealt bountifully with thee. Cannot we also, dear brothers and sisters in Christ, speak well of our God tonight? If any of us have been wandering at all from his presence, and so have lost the conscious sense of his love, let us come back to him at once. We cannot be happy anywhere else. God has...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Return unto thy rest, O my soul; for the LORD hath dealt bountifully with thee. For thou hast delivered my soul from death, mine eyes from tears, and my feet from falling. If we have enjoyed this trinity of deliverances, let us praise the Three One God for ever and ever. Praise him, O my soul, if thou art saved! Praise God, O mine eyes! Be filled...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Return unto thy rest, O my soul; for the LORD hath dealt bountifully with thee. Come home to him, for you have no other friend like him in earth or heaven; come back to him, my soul, and rest where you have often rested before.
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
For thou hast delivered my soul from death,.... From a corporeal death, when his life was in danger, surrounded by Saul's army, in the hand of the Philistines at Gath, and when his son rebelled against him; and from a spiritual death in regeneration, which is a passing from death to life; and from an eternal death, the just wages of sin: and not...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For thou hast delivered my soul from death, mine eyes from tears, and my feet from falling. As I read these words, they seem as if they were written for me. Do they seem, dear hearer, as if they were written for you? Have you undergone this trinity of salvation — your soul from death, your eyes from tears, your feet from falling? If so, then make...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For thou hast delivered my soul from death, mine eyes from tears, and my feet from falling. Just now, he prayed, “Deliver my soul.” He has received the answer to his petition, for he says, “Thou hast delivered my soul from death.” He said nothing then about his eyes; but God gives exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think. He did not say...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For thou hast delivered my soul from death, mine eye from tears, and my feet from falling. I will walk before the LORD in the land of the living. “Let my fellow creatures think what they will of me, I will not care about their judgments, I will only think of God.” This is the highest noblest, happiest style of living, — to “walk before the Lord.”...