Psalms 119:105
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path. It shows me the way; it cheers me in the way; it reveals to me the difficulties of the way.
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Psalms 119:105
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path. We are walkers through the city of this world, and we are often called to go out into its darkness; let us never venture there without the light-giving word, lest we slip with our feet. Each man should use the word of God personally, practically, and habitually, that he may see his way and...
Psalms 119:105
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path. God’s Word is full of brilliance; it is always giving out its blessed light. It casts a light upon all our daily life. It is a light for the house, and a light for the way, and happy is the man who never walks abroad without this lantern to light up his pathway. There are many pitfalls on...
Psalms 119:106
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
I have sworn, and I will perform [it],.... Or, "I have performed it" (h). The psalmist had not only taken up a resolution in his mind, but he had openly declared with his mouth, and professed in a solemn manner, that he would serve the Lord; he had sworn allegiance to him as his King, and, through divine grace, had hitherto kept it; and hoped he...
Psalms 119:106-107
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I have sworn, and I will perform it, that I will keep thy righteous judgments. I am afflicted very much: quicken me, O LORD, according unto thy word. Are any of you afflicted tonight? I commend this prayer to your use. One would have expected that David would have prayed, “I am afflicted very much: comfort me, O Lord.” Or, “Relieve me, O Lord.”...
Psalms 119:106
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I have sworn, and I will perform it, that I will keep thy righteous judgments. Under the influence of the clear light of knowledge he had firmly made up his mind, and solemnly declared his resolve in the sight of God. Perhaps mistrusting his own fickle mind, he had pledged himself in sacred form to abide faithful to the determinations of his God....
Psalms 119:106
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I have sworn, and I will perform it, that I will keep thy righteous judgments. I scarcely remember ever hearing of a man swearing, and then approving of it, but this kind of swearing is right enough: “I have sworn, and I will perform it, that I will keep thy righteous judgments.” We are to determine, with the most vehement resolution, that, God...
Psalms 119:107
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
I am afflicted very much,.... In a temporal sense, in his body, in his family, and by his enemies; in a spiritual sense, with the corruptions of his heart, with the temptations of Satan, and with the hidings of God's face; and what with one thing or another, he was pressed above measure, and his spirits sunk under the weight of the affliction, so...
Psalms 119:107
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I am afflicted very much: quicken me, O LORD, according unto thy word. According to the last verse he had been sworn in a soldier of the Lord, and in this next verse he is called to suffer hardness in that capacity. Our service of the Lord does not screen us from trial, but rather secures it for us. The Psalmist was a consecrated man, and yet a...
Psalms 119:107
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I am afflicted very much:- Here is a good man, a better man than most of us, a man who is determined to do right, yet he gets into trouble because he is determined to do right. God’s wheat will be threshed, his gold will be put into the furnace. If you were worth nothing to him, God might not take the trouble to afflict you; but when you are...
Psalms 119:108
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Accept, I beseech thee, the freewill offerings of my mouth, O Lord,.... Not sacrifices out of his flocks and herds, such as were the voluntary and freewill offerings brought to the priests under the law, though there may be an allusion to them; nor out of his substance, such as David and his people willingly offered towards the building of the...
Psalms 119:108-112
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Accept, I beseech thee, the freewill offerings of my mouth, O LORD, and teach me thy judgments. My soul is continually in my hand: yet do I not forget thy law. The wicked have laid a snare for me: yet I erred not from thy precepts. Thy testimonies have I taken as an heritage for ever: for they are the rejoicing of my heart. I have inclined mine...
Psalms 119:108
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Accept, I beseech thee, the freewill offerings of my mouth, O LORD, and teach me thy judgments. He offers prayer, praise, confession, and testimony — these, presented with his voice in the presence of an audience, were the tribute of his mouth unto Jehovah. He trembles lest these should be so ill uttered so to displease the Lord, and therefore he...
Psalms 119:108
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Accept, I beseech thee, the freewill offerings of my mouth, O LORD,-“ My prayers, my praises, my testimonies, my ministries, accept them all, O Lord,”- Psa_119:108. And teach me thy judgment. He who teaches others needs teaching himself. He who hopes that what he says will be accepted by those who hear it opens his ear to hear what God says to...
Psalms 119:109
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
My soul [is] continually in my hand,.... In the utmost jeopardy, always exposed to danger, ever delivered unto death; killed all the day long, or liable to be so: this is the sense of the phrase; see Judges 12:3; for what is in a man's hands may easily fall, or be taken out of them: so the Targum, "my soul is in danger upon the back of my hands...
Psalms 119:109
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
My soul is continually in my hand: yet do I not forget thy law. He lived in the midst of danger. He had to be always fighting for existence — hiding in caves, or contending in battles. This is a very uncomfortable and trying state of affairs, and men are apt to think any expedient justifiable by which they can end such a condition, but David did...
Psalms 119:109
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
My soul is continually in my hand: David’s life was often in jeopardy. Saul hunted him as a partridge upon the mountains. He was sometimes very sick, and ready to die. Perhaps also, at times, he was in such great sorrow that he felt as if his soul was a thing that he held in his hand. We do not know exactly where our soul is, but we usually think...
Psalms 119:110
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
The wicked have laid a snare for me,.... To draw him into sin, and so into mischief; and even to take away his life, as they are said to dig pits for him, Psalms 119:85; yet I erred not from thy precepts: not wilfully and wickedly, though through inadvertence and infirmity, as he often did, and every good man does; and indeed his errors are so...
Psalms 119:110
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
The wicked have laid a snare for me: yet I erred not from thy precepts. Spiritual life is the scene of constant danger. The believer lives with his life in his hand, and meanwhile all seem plotting to take it from him, by cunning if they cannot by violence. We shall not find it an easy thing to live the life of the faithful. Wicked spirits and...
Psalms 119:110
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
The wicked have laid a snare for me: yet I erred not from thy precepts. “If I had done so, I should have been caught in their snare, but as I kept straight on in the way of thy precepts, it little mattered how many snares they laid for me.”