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John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
The Lord taketh my part with them that help me,.... With the four hundred men that were with David, and stood by him in his troubles, 1 Samuel 22:2; see Psalms 54:4; and with those who ministered unto Christ as man, Lu 8:3. Or, "the Lord [is] for me, with" or "among my helpers" (t); he is the principal helper, he is one for all; he is in the room...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
The LORD taketh my part with them that help me: therefore shall I see my desire upon them that hate me. It is better to trust in the LORD than to put confidence in man. It is better to trust in the LORD than to put confidence in princes. Now he goes on to detail his experience of trouble and of deliverance.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
The LORD taketh my part with them that help me: therefore shall I see my desire upon them that hate me. It is better to trust in the LORD than to put confidence in man. There is one text which I have never seen put up anywhere. You have illuminated texts in your houses and schoolrooms, and so on, but I think I have never seen this, “Cursed is he...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
[It is] better to trust in the Lord,.... This, with what follows in Psalms 118:9, is the conclusion from the above premises and experience; it is good to trust in the Lord; such enjoy peace, are in safety, shall not want any good thing, nor ever be ashamed and confounded: the Targum is, "it is better to trust in the Word of the Lord;'' than to put...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
[It is] better to trust in the Lord,.... The Targum is, "in the Word of the Lord.'' This is repeated for the sake of what follows: than to put confidence in princes; who have greater ability to help, and whose honour should engage them to keep their word; and yet it is better to trust in the Lord than in them; see Psalms 146:3. Two different words...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
It is better to trust in the LORD than to put confidence in princes. It is nobler, it is more agreeable to sound reason, it will lead to better results. God better deserves our confidence than the princes of the earth do — even the best of them.
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
All nations compassed me about,.... Not all the nations of the world, but all the neighbouring nations about Judea; as the Philistines, Moabites, Ammonites, Amalekites, and Syrians; and these not all at one time, but sometimes one, and sometimes another, whom David fought with and subdued: and these, applied to Christ, design Herod and Pontius...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
All nations compassed me about: but in the name of the LORD will I destroy them. David was a warrior. His business was to fight; and he was attacked on every side by all sorts of people. He was shut in, and the Lord was with him; and he broke his way through.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
All nations compassed me about: but in the name of the LORD will I destroy them. This may apply to David, but it applied better to Christ, around whom Jews and Gentiles came, but he won the victory over them.
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
They compassed me about; yea, they compassed me about,.... Which is repeated not only for the confirmation of, it, but to denote the frequency and fury of their attacks, and their obstinate persisting therein; [See comments on Psalms 118:10]; but in the name of the Lord I will destroy them; which also is repeated to show the strength of his faith,...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
They compassed me about; yea, they compassed me about: but in the name of the LORD I will destroy them. They compassed me about like bees; they are quenched as the fire of thorns: Thorns crackle and blaze, and then it is all over with them. So it shall be with the adversaries of the believer. “ They are quenched as the fire of thorns, for in the...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
They compassed me about; yea, they compassed me about: but in the name of the LORD I will destroy them. They compassed me about like bees, they are quenched as the fire of thorns: for in the name of the LORD I will destroy them. The thorn makes a good blaze and crackle, and sputter, but it is soon out altogether. “For in the name of the Lord will...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
They compassed me about like bees,.... In great numbers (w); as a swarm of bees, which, being irritated and provoked, will fly upon persons in a body, and with great fury; to which the Amorites and the Assyrian army were compared, Deuteronomy 1:44. They will attack horses and kill them, as Aristotle (x) says; and places besieged have been...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For in the name of the LORD I will destroy them. Thou hast thrust sore at me that I might fall: “ Thou “: the same great and leading name.
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Thou hast thrust sore at me, that I might fall,.... Or "pushing, thou hast pushed me (a), that I might fall": an apostrophe to some particular enemy, as Saul was to David; who thrust sore at him to take away his life, by casting a javelin at him; speaking to his servants to kill him; sending messengers to watch his house and slay him, and by,...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
But the LORD helped me. The LORD is my strength and song, and is become my salvation. What a poet this man is. Thanksgiving is the tone of a true poet. When a man’s heart gets warm, and he begins to adore his God for his boundless mercy, the strain cannot grovel. Gratitude lends its wings better than the fabled Pegasus, and up the mind rises in a...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Thou hast thrust sore at me that I might fall: but the Lord helped me. This will rebut all the attacks of our fiercest foes — “But the Lord helped me.”
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
The Lord [is] my strength and song,.... It being in the name of the Lord the enemies of the psalmist were destroyed; and having obtained help of him when sore thrust at, he gives him all the glory, and ascribes nothing to himself. It was the Lord that strengthened him, helped him, and gave him the victory. The Lord is the author and giver of...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
The LORD is my strength and song, and is become my salvation. The voice of rejoicing and salvation is in the tabernacles of the righteous: the right hand of the LORD doeth valiatly. Where God’s people dwell, there is the voice of joy. Their family prayer sanctifies the house with its joyous notes. Even then there is trouble and sorrow in the...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
The voice of rejoicing and salvation [is] in the tabernacles of the righteous,.... In all the dwellings of good men, throughout the land of Israel, was heard nothing but the voice of joy, on account of David's accession to the throne; the deliverance of him from a persecuting Saul, and of them from his real administration; and the victories David...