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John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Be surety for thy servant for good,.... The psalmist was, in a like case with Hezekiah, oppressed; and therefore desires the Lord would undertake for him, appear on his side, and defend him, Psalms 38:14; and if God himself is the surety of his people, and engages in their behalf, they need fear no enemy. What David prays to God to be for him,...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Be surety for thy servant for good: let not the proud oppress me. Mine eyes fail for thy salvation,- “I have looked for it so long, I have longed for it so eagerly, that my eyes seem to grow inflamed with watching, a film seems to come over them so that I cannot see out of them: ‘Mine eyes fail for thy salvation.’”
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Be surety for thy servant for good: let not the proud oppress me. As nearly as I remember, this is the only verse which does not mention the law or the Word of God. Here you have a “surety,” and that is something even better. If the law fails us, the surety stands us in good stead. How I like to think of God the surety of his people! When there is...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Mine eyes fail for that salvation,.... For temporal salvation or deliverance from oppressors; and for spiritual salvation, for views of an interest in it, the joys and comforts of it; and for the Messiah, the author of it; whom he was looking wistfully for, but, not coming so soon as expected, his eyes were tired and weary, and ready to fail, and...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And for the word of thy righteousness. “I look for no salvation except in the way revealed in thy Word, and I do not wish thee to do an unrighteous thing even to save me from my oppressors.”
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Mine eyes fail for thy salvation, and for the word of thy righteousness. I have looked until I have looked my eyes out: I am weary with waiting, with watching, with weeping: “Mine eyes fail for thy salvation.” Some do not even look for him. Here is a man who looked until his very eyes gave out.
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Deal with thy servant according unto thy mercy,.... Which is either general and providential, and reaches to all his creatures; and according to which David had been dealt with all his days, and which he desires a continuance of: or special; and which is in Christ, and communicated through him; and in whom he deals with his people, not according...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Deal with thy servant according unto thy mercy,- He dare not ask to be dealt with by God on any other ground than that of mercy. Though he is innocent of that which the ungodly laid to his charge, he is not innocent before God, and therefore he pleads for mercy. He owns that God is his Lord and Master, and that he is God’s servant, and as a man...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Deal with thy servant according unto thy mercy, and teach me thy statutes. He is a just man; he can plead that he has done justly; but he does not ask to be dealt with according to justice: “Deal with thy servant according unto thy mercy” — as far as any one of us can get. If you have been greatly sanctified, have walked very near to God, I would...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
I [am] thy servant,.... Not only by creation, but by grace; and as he had a work to do, he desires to know what it was; and as it was proper he should know his Master's will, he applies to him for it; using this as an argument, that he was his servant, devoted to his service, and willing to perform it to the best of his knowledge and ability; and...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I am thy servant;- This is the third time in four verses that David mentions this relationship; he seems proud of being God’s servant. Though he were but as a menial, yet would he glory in it: “I am thy servant;” — Psa_119:125. Give me understanding, that I may know thy testimonies. “Lord, do not merely teach me, but give me understanding.” That...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I am thy servant; He called himself “servant” many times before; and in this wonderful passage this is the third time. He is delighted to be the “servant of God.” He says little about being a king; he says a great deal about being a servant: “I am thy servant.” Psa_119:125. Give me understanding, that I may know thy testimonies. You know,...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
[It is] time for [thee], Lord, to work,.... To send the Messiah, to work righteousness; to fulfil the law, and vindicate the honour of it, broken by men. It was always a notion of the Jews that the time of the Messiah's coming would be when it was a time of great wickedness in the earth; and which seems to agree with the word of God, and was true...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
It is time for thee, LORD, to work: for they have made void thy law. And surely this is an age in which this prayer is very suitable. On all hands we see God’s law ridiculed, or denied, or travestied, or else hidden under tradition or under the dicta of so-called scientific men, or in some way or other “made void.” Oh, that God’s right hand of...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
It is time for thee, LORD, to work: for they have made void thy law. When men begin to exercise a destructive criticism upon the Word of God, it is time for God to work. When God’s law is held in small esteem, when men go their own way, call vice by the name of pleasure, “It is time for thee, Lord, to work: for they have made void thy law.”
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Therefore I love thy commandments,.... Because he was the Lord's servant, as Aben Ezra; or rather because the wicked made void the law. His love was the more inflamed and increased towards it by the contempt it was had in by others; he preferred it above gold, yea, above fine gold; or gold of Phez, a place where the best gold was, as was thought:...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Therefore I love thy commandments above gold; yea, above fine gold. “Therefore” — because the wicked tasted God’s law, and made it void, David loved it all the more. It is a live fish that swims against the stream, it is a live man of God who can say, “They have made void thy law, Therefore I love thy commandments above gold; yes, above fine gold.”
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Therefore I esteem all [thy] precepts [concerning] all [things to be] right,.... He had an impartial regard to all the commandments of God; and valued one as well as another, and walked according to all of them; making no difference either in his affection or practice between one and another, as being more or less necessary, just, and right: he...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Therefore I esteem all thy precepts concerning all things to be right;- “Ungodly men think they are wrong; that is an additional proof to me that they are right.” When a certain old philosopher had been praised by a bad man, he asked, “What have I done amiss that he should speak well of me?” And there are some men’s mouths out of which the praise...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
p, PE.--The Seventeenth Part. Ver. 129. PE. Thy testimonies [are] wonderful,.... The Scriptures, which testify of God, his mind and will, are wonderful both with respect to the author of them, the things contained in them, and the use and advantage of them. They give an account of the wonderful works of creation; of their author and matter; of the...