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John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
k, CAPH.--The Eleventh Part. Ver. 81. CAPH. My soul fainteth for thy salvation, Either for temporal salvation and deliverance from enemies; which, being promised, was expected by him from the Lord; but not coming so soon as looked for, his spirits began to sink and faint: or for spiritual and eternal salvation, for a view of interest in it, for...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
My soul fainteth for thy salvation: but I hope in thy word. What! faint and hoping, too? Yes, a Christian man is a wonder and a contradiction to many, and most of all to himself. He cannot understand himself; he faints, and yet he hopes. Two apparently opposite emotions may be at the same time in the Christian bosom. Every man is two men, if he is...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
My soul fainteth for thy salvation: but I hope in thy word. The psalmist was so full of longings, hungerings, thirstings, for God’s salvation that he had come even to faintness through the strength of his desire. Yet, in his faintness, he was not too far gone to hope; and we also have good ground for hoping and believing that God, who gave us his...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
My soul fainteth for thy salvation: but I hope in thy word. The ship rocks, but the anchor holds; the singer is ready to faint, but he is not ready to despair. He knows where his restoring will come.
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Mine eyes fail for thy word,.... Either with looking for the Messiah, the essential Word, that was to be, and afterwards was made flesh, and dwelt among men; or for the fulfilment of the word of promise, on which he was made to hope; but that being deferred; and he believing in hope against hope, and looking out continually till it was...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Mine eyes fail for thy word, saying, When wilt thou comfort me? “I look for it till my eyes ache; I strain my eyes to see thy word, watching for it till my vision grows dull in waiting: ‘Mine eyes fail for thy word, saying.”’ Oh, then, his eyes could speak! Yes, eyes can say a great many things; and blessed are the eyes that have learned to say...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Mine eyes fail for thy word, saying, When wilt thou comfort me? He looked out for a message from God as the watchers of the night looked for the breaking of the morning. His eyes ached to behold the comforts of his God. Oh, blessed state of strong desire! I pray God that we may all experience it
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Mine eyes fail for thy word, saying, When wilt thou comfort me? What a mercy it is to have our eyes on God’s word, full as it is of blessing to be waiting till the blessing comes out of it! Mine eyes watch thy word, that is so full of the rain of comfort; and I say to myself, “When will it descend and refresh me? When will the clouds let fall...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
For I am become like a bottle in the smoke,.... Like a bottle made of the skins of beasts, as was usual in those times and countries: hence we read of old and new bottles, and of their rending, Judges 9:13 Matthew 9:17. Now such a bottle being hung up in a smoky chimney, would be dried and shrivelled up, and be good for nothing; so Jarchi's note...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For I am become like a bottle in the smoke; An old dried-up skin bottle, that is hung in the smoke of the tent over the fire, till it is wrinkled and cracked, and almost good for nothing. Psa_119:83. Yet do I not forget thy statutes. “Beauty is gone, strength is gone, comeliness is gone; but not my memory of thy word, O Lord.” What a mercy it is...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For I am become like a bottle in the smoke; yet do I not forget thy statutes. When an empty skin bottle was hung up in one of the smoky dwellings of the East, it became withered, cracked, useless; and the psalmist says, “‘I am become like a bottle in the smoke,’ — I seem to be good for nothing, withered, dried up; — ‘yet do I not forget thy...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For I am become like a bottle in the smoke; yet do I not forget thy statues. I feel dried up, besmeared and besmirched as with soot, my very beauty is gone from me, and my usefulness too. I am not fit to hold anything, but I have become like a skin bottle that is parched up; yet for all that I have a memory of thy word: the smoke and the heat have...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
How many [are] the days of thy servant?.... If this is to be understood of the days of his life, they were very few, as the days of every man be; and if of his days of joy and comfort, peace and prosperity, they were fewer still; but if of days of adversity and affliction, which seems to be the sense, they were many indeed; when wilt thou execute...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
How many are the days of thy servant? when wilt thou execute judgment on them that persecute me? “Lord, I have but a short life; let me not have a long affliction.” Does he mean, “Lord, I have lived too long in this miserable state; I wish my days were shortened”? We must not murmur at the length of our days, but we may plead that persecution may...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
How many are the days of thy servant? when wilt thou execute judgment on them that persecute me? “I am not going to live here for ever, Lord; let me not have to wait to be vindicated until I am in my grave. O my God, hasten the day of my deliverance!”
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
How many are the days of thy servant? when wilt thou execute judgment on them that persecute me? “How many are the days of thy servant;” or rather, how few they are be; not long in coming to me, lest I die whilst thou art still on the road.
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
The proud have digged pits for me,.... Laid snares and temptations in his way, to draw him into sin, and so into mischief; they sought indeed to take away his life, and formed schemes for it. The allusion is to the digging of pits for the taking of wild beasts; which shows the ill opinion they had of David, and their ill usage of him; see Psalms...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
The proud have digged pits for me, which are not after thy law. It is not often that proud men take to digging; but here, you see, these children of the pit learn to dig pits for God’s people; and they have not given over the practice yet. Pits were dug in olden times to catch wild beasts; but now, often, the wicked dig pits to try to catch good...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
The proud have digged pits for me, which are not after thy law. All thy commandments are faithful: they persecute me wrongfully; help thou me. God’s Word is all true; the longer we test and try it, the more shall we find it to be worthy of our fullest confidence. Those who doubt its truth have never really proved its power. Those who mistrust it,...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
The proud have digged pits for me, which are not after thy law. They might make pits for lions and tigers, but not for sheep. These pits were not after God’s law. There are still cruel enemies who would, if they could, entrap the people of God; shall not this make us feel what a great mercy it is we have one to be our guardian and defender who...