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John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
All thy commandments [are] faithful,.... Or, "faithfulness" (x) they are made by a faithful God, who is holy, just, and true; they command faithfulness, sincerity, and uprightness; and require men to love their neighbours as themselves, and to do all they do faithfully, cordially, and affectionately; they are to be done in truth and faithfulness,...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
All thy commandments are faithful: they persecute me wrongfully; help thou me. What a prayer that is! Store it up for use, dear friend, carry it home with you. That is the kind of prayer to be prayed on the roadside, in a railway carriage, ay, even in an accident: “Help thou me.” “Help thou me,” is a wonderful prayer, it seems to turn on a swivel...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
All thy commandments are faithful: they persecute me wrongfully; There is a fine prayer for us every day in the week: “Help thou me.” Lord, I am helpless if thou do not help me. Thou art the helper of Israel: he that keepeth Israel will not slumber nor sleep. “Help thou me.”
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
They had almost consumed me upon earth,.... Almost destroyed his good name, wasted his substance, took away his crown and kingdom, and even his life; it was within a little of it, his soul had almost dwelt in silence; they had almost cast him down to the ground, and left him there. But all this was only on earth; they could not reach any thing...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
They had almost consumed me upon earth; “They had almost eaten me up; they had almost burned my life out. Blessed be God, they could not consume me anywhere except upon earth! My immortal part would escape the burning of their coals of juniper. They had almost consumed me, but almost is not altogether.” When God delivers his people from the lion...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
They had almost consumed me upon earth; but I forsook not thy precepts. Therefore his enemies could not consume him. As long as the believer holds fast to God’s precepts, he is indigestible even to the old dragon himself; and no adversary shall ever be able to devour him as long as the Word of God is in his heart.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
They had almost consumed me upon earth; but I forsook not thy precepts. “They had almost consumed me upon earth.” They seemed as if they would swallow me up entirely, “but I forsook not thy precepts,” and therefore they could not consume me; I was invulnerable and invincible because I stuck to rectitude and kept to thy precepts.
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Quicken me after thy lovingkindness,.... According to it, and with it; let me have some discoveries of it, and of interest in it; and that will quicken me, revive and comfort me, under all the reproaches, ill usage, and persecutions of men. The love of God shed abroad in the heart comforts and supports under all sorts of afflictions; it quickens...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Quicken me after thy lovingkindness; That is a blessed prayer for us to offer. If any of you feel dull and drowsy, if any of you are heavy and slow in your movements, cry, to the Lord, “Quicken me after thy lovingkindness.” Psa_119:88. So shall I keep the testimony of thy month. Spiritual life is the root of holiness: “Quicken me after thy...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Quicken me after thy lovingkindness; so shall I keep the testimony of thy mouth. Give me more true spiritual life, inspirit me, revive me, ‘quicken me.’ At this very moment, good Lord, if I am cold, and half frozen, and almost dead, yet since I am like the trees, whose life is in them even when they have lost their leaves, give me a new...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Quicken me after thy lovingkindness; so shall I keep the testimony of thy mouth. For ever, O LORD, thy word is settled in heaven. There is not a new divine word, or a new gospel, or a new law; but it is a settled gospel, a settled law, a settled revelation, “settled in heaven,” stereotyped, fixed, made permanent. If perfect, then unalterable, if...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
l, LAMED.--The Twelfth Part. Ver. 89. LAMED. For ever, O Lord, thy word is settled in heaven. The Syriac version makes two propositions of these words, rendering them thus, "for ever thou art, O Lord; and thy word stands", or "is firm in heaven": and which agrees with the accents: the first of which is expressive of the eternity and immutability...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For ever, O LORD, thy word is settled in heaven. It is not a changeable or vanishing thing: “Thy word is settled,” settled for ever, settled “for ever in heaven.” As God changes not, so the Word which he has spoken to his servants changes not. If the foundations of the faith could be removed, what would the righteous do? What would any of us do?...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For ever, O LORD, thy word is settled in heaven. Other things come, and go, and change, moons wax and wane, tides ebb and flow, everything earthly is changeable; but “Thy word is settled —settled in heaven,” with the eternal settlements. No truth of it can fail, no promise of it can be broken. What a joy this is to our hearts tonight! There is...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Thy faithfulness [is] unto all generations,.... Or "to generation and generation" (y); to his people in every age, fulfilling his word, supplying their wants, giving them new mercies every morning and every day; never leaving and forsaking them, according to his promise: his faithfulness never fails, it endures for ever, and is exceeding great and...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Thy faithfulness is unto all generations: thou hast established the earth, and it abideth. “Thy faithfulness is unto all generations.” Thou who wast true to Abraham wilt be true to David; thou who wast true to David wilt be true to me. Thou art ever faithful to thine own nature and Godhead. “Thou hast established the earth, and it abideth.” It...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Thy faithfulness is unto all generations: — God, who kept his promise to Abraham, keeps it also to us though we are far down the ages, and he will keep it to our children and our children’s children as long as the world endures, and then for ever and ever. We need not be afraid to leave the generations to come in his hands. “Thy faithfulness is...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Thou hast established the earth, and it abideth. They continue this day according to thine ordinances: for all are thy servants. This material world whose laws appear to be so fixed, abides only because God has established it; but a day will come in which he will roll these things up like an outworn vesture, and he that sitteth upon the throne...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Thy faithfulness is unto all generations: thou hast established the earth, and it abideth. That is, God has spoken to nature, and that word has established the earth, and made it to stand securely.
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
They continue this day according to thine ordinances,.... That is, the heavens and the earth do, before mentioned, just as they were from the beginning of the creation. The heavenly bodies have the same motion, magnitude, distance, and influence; the sun rises and sets as it did; the moon keeps her appointed seasons of full and change, of increase...