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Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For thou hast delivered my soul from death, mine eyes from tears, and my feet from falling. “I have had a trinity of deliverances, — my soul saved from eternal ruin, my eyes delivered from the greatest grief of all, and my life saved from sinful stumbling: ‘ Thou hast delivered my soul from death, mine eyes from tears, and my feet from failing.’”...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For thou hast delivered my soul from death, mine eyes from tears, and my feet from falling. An eternity of mercies from the Eternal himself.
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
I will walk before the Lord in the land of the living. As in the sight of the omniscient God, according to his word and will, and in such manner as to please him. So Enoch's walking with God is by the apostle explained of pleasing him; compare Genesis 5:22, and so the Septuagint, Vulgate Latin, and Arabic versions render it, "I will please the...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I will walk before the LORD in the land of the living. That is to say, as he has dealt so well with me, I will always deal well with him. I will not care to look to men — to their hope, to their help, to their judgment, to their censure, but I will set the Lord always before me. He shall be everything to me. Beloved, it is one of the best days...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I will walk before the LORD in the land of the living. “I will not care who sees me so long as he sees me; I will court no presence but his presence, ‘I will walk before Jehovah.’” It is grand walking, under a constant sense of the Lord’s inspection, and a delightful consciousness of the Lord’s smile. This is like Enoch’s walk, and you know how it...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I will walk before the LORD in the land of the living. “I will not walk before some great man so as to seek to please him. I will not walk before my fellow-believers so as to be merely looking for their approbation. But ‘ I will walk before the Lord.’” This is the best way of living, so let it be yours and mine, beloved. Let each of us say, “I...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I will walk before the LORD in the land of the living. “That shall be my way of walking,-not before me, that I may gain their praise, but I will consider the Lord, and the Lord alone; and so long as I please him, I shall not mind whether I please anybody else or not.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I will walk before the LORD in the land of the living. The best style of living is walking before God, so living in his sight as to be indifferent to the opinions and judgments of our fellow men and only caring to know that God is looking upon us with approval. This is the way to live; and if we have tried it, we have found it to be so pleasant...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
I believed, therefore have I spoken,.... Here the Septuagint, Vulgate Latin, Arabic, and Ethiopic versions, begin a new psalm, but without any foundation in the original; nor is it countenanced by the Targum; and is manifestly against the connection with the preceding verses. David expresses his faith in relation to what goes before, though the...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I believed, therefore have I spoken: I was greatly afflicted: I said in my haste, All men are liars. And uncommonly near the truth he came, even though he was in a hurry in saying it, for if you trust in any men, they must be liars to you. They will fail you either from want of faithfulness, or else from want of power. There are pinches where the...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I believed, therefore have I spoken: I was greatly afflicted: “I believed.” Come, friends; can you all say that? It is a blessed thing for you if you can say that when the sorrows of death compass you, and the pains of the grave lay hold upon you. That is glorious faith which says, “Though he slay me, yet will I trust in him.” “I believed,...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I believed, therefore have I spoken: I was greatly afflicted: I said in my haste, all men are liars. He felt that he could not trust them. He had come into such trouble that men would be deceivers even against their own will, for, even when they would have helped him, he found that they could not. He had looked to them as worthy of his confidence,...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I believed, therefore have I spoken: I was greatly afflicted: I call your attention again to the repeated use of the letter-word “I.” Three times in this one verse we have that little personal pronoun, and I want you each one to take this whole Psalm to yourself so far as it is suited to your case, to make a soliloquy of it while we are reading...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I believed, therefore have I spoken: I was greatly afflicted: I said in my haste, All men are liars. It is always better not to speak in haste. It is very seldom that we say much that is worth hearing when we talk too fast. “I said in my haste, All men are liars.”
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I believed, therefore have I spoken: I was greatly afflicted: I said in my haste, All men are liars. They have all failed me; some of them could but would not help me, so they were as liars to me; others would but could not, and as I have trusted them, they were as liars to me; but thou, my God, art no liar, thou art the truth itself! I ask those...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I believed, therefore have I spoken: I was greatly afflicted: I said in my haste, All men are liars. And uncommonly near the truth he came, even though he was in a hurry in saying it, for if you trust in any men they must be liars to you. They will fail you, either from want of faithfulness, or else from want of power. There are pinches where the...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
I said in my haste, all men [are] liars. The sin of lying is common to man; there is a natural proneness and propensity to it: men go astray from the womb, speaking lies; yet such who have received the grace of God "put [it] off" with the rest of "the deeds of the old man", and are "children that will not lie". Wherefore, though the greater part...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I said in my haste, All men are liars. You see, he had spoken once in the power of the flesh; it was well, therefore, that he should speak now in the power of faith. “I said in my haste, All men are liars.” But it was true for all that, for they will fail us if we trust to them instead of to the Lord; yet, in another sense, they are not all liars,...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I said in my haste, All men are liars. What shall I render unto the LORD for all his benefits toward me? I expect that we have all of us said, in our haste, some things that we had better not have said. They may have been true; yet, for all that, it was a pity that we uttered them. Yet I am glad that the psalmist, although he said, “All men are...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
What shall I render unto the Lord?.... He considers the Lord only as the author and giver of his mercies, and has nothing to say of his own merits, nor of other persons, who might be instruments of good to him; but is for giving all the glory to God: not as though he could render anything proportional or equivalent to what he had received, but as...