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John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
O Lord, truly I [am] thy servant, I [am] thy servant,.... Not merely by creation, and as obliged by providential favours; but by the grace of God, which made him a willing one: and he was so, not nominally only, but in reality; not as those who say Lord, Lord, but do not the will of God; whereas he served the Lord cheerfully and willingly, in...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
O LORD, truly I am thy servant; I am thy servant, and the son of thine handmaid:— “Born in thine own house, of one who belonged to thee,— a home-born slave, and glad to glory in that fact. Born in thy house, and bought with thy money, and yielding up myself joyfully to thee: ‘I am thy servant, and the son of thine handmaid:’ — Psa_116:16. Thou...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
O LORD, truly I am thy servant; I am thy servant, and the son of thine handmaid: thou hast loosed my bonds. How pleased David was to be God’s servant! Yet he says, “Thou hast loosed my bonds.” To serve God, is to be free; we are never truly free until we bow our willing necks to the yoke of the Most High. Then we break every chain, and snap every...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
O LORD, truly I am thy servant; I am thy servant, and the son of thine handmaid: thou hast loosed my bonds. Still read this Psalm very personally, — you especially who have had godly mothers. Say, “I am a born slave, — born of one who was thy slave, for I delight to use even such a hard name as that. I am God’s servant, born of one of God’s...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
O LORD, truly I am thy servant; I am thy servant, and the son of thine handmaid: thou hast loosed my bonds. The palmist said that he was a home-born slave, because his mother was a servant of God, and he was born, as it were, a servant of his mother’s Lord. How delightful it is to be a Christian, and the Son of a Christian! Let us rejoice and be...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
O LORD, truly I am thy servant; I am thy servant, and the son of thine handmaid; thou hast loosed my bonds. What a sweet thing to be the servant of God. Well does David say it twice over. Well does he delight to look upon himself as a slave that was born in his Master’s house. “My mother,” says he, “was one of thy servants. I am the son of thy...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
I will offer to thee the sacrifice of thanksgiving,.... For deliverance from afflictions and death; for loosing his bonds, in every sense; for all mercies, temporal and spiritual; see Romans 6:17; Such sacrifices are according to the will of God; are well pleasing to him, when offered up through Christ, and in faith, and are a glorifying of him....
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I will offer to thee the sacrifice of thanksgiving, and will call upon the name of the LORD. Now David has grown into a priest, offering sacrifices. He has also grown into a singer, praising the Lord with thanksgiving; and he has grown into a preacher: “And will call upon the name of the Lord.” The very man who found the pains of hell laying hold...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I will offer to thee the sacrifice of thanksgiving, and will call upon the name of the LORD. I will pay my vows unto the LORD now in the presence of all his people, in the courts of the LORD’S house, in the midst of thee, O Jerusalem. Praise ye the LORD.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I will offer to thee the sacrifice of thanksgiving, and will call upon the name of the Lord. I will pay my vows unto the LORD now in the presence of all his people, In the courts of the LORD’S house, in the midst of thee, O Jerusalem. Praise ye the LORD. And we do and will praise him at this time, and for ever and ever.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I will offer to thee the sacrifice of thanksgiving, and will call upon the name of the LORD. I will pay my vows unto the LORD now in the presence of all his people, in the courts of the LORD’S house, in the midst of thee, O Jerusalem. Praise ye the LORD.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I will offer to thee the sacrifice of thanksgiving, and will call upon the name of the LORD, I will pay my vows unto the LORD now in the presence of all his people, Do it, beloved, let your hearts now pour themselves out in silence, and afterwards in grateful song before the Lord. Praise him, magnify him, bless his name, “in the presence of all...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I will offer to thee the sacrifice of thanksgiving, and will call upon the name of the LORD. He has been doing it. What a man has done he will do. Oh! it is a blessed thing that the children of God at last catch a habit of devotion. Just as the sinner continues in his sin, so may I venture to say, “Shall the Ethiopian change his skin, or the...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
I will pay my vows unto the Lord,.... [See comments on Psalms 116:14]. And the Targum here, as there, paraphrases the latter clause, now in the presence of all his people, thus; "I will then declare his signs (or wonders) to all his people;'' the marvellous things he had done for him.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I will pay my vows unto the LORD now in the presence of all his people, in the courts of the LORD’S house, in the midst of thee, O Jerusalem. Praise ye the LORD. Or, “Hallelujah!” I cannot close this reading without remarking how often my ears are shocked with the blasphemous way in which this thrice-holy word is dragged into the mire,—“Hallelujah...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I will pay my vows unto the LORD now in the presence of all his people, In the courts of the LORD’S house, in the midst of thee, O Jerusalem. Praise ye the LORD. I see that David liked company. He would have been happy here, though we meet under conditions not wholly pleasant. He would have been glad to be in the midst of a smiling company of...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
In the courts of the Lord's house,.... This is added by way of explanation of Ps 116:18, what he meant by "the presence of all his people"; the assembly of the saints met together in the house of the Lord, at the door of the tabernacle, in the courts of it, where the people got together to worship God; in the midst of thee, O Jerusalem; the Lord's...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
In the courts of the LORD’S house, in the midst of thee, O Jerusalem. Praise ye the LORD.