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Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Thy testimonies are wonderful: therefore doth my soul keep them. Every true believer admires God’s Word; and, more than that, it amazes him: “Thy testimonies are wonderful.” View them from any point you may select, they are wonderful, wonderful in themselves, wonderful in their operation, wonderful in the way in which they endure all kinds of...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Thy testimonies are wonderful: therefore doth my soul keep them. It is very wonderful that God should speak to us at all, and still more marvellous that he should write to us such a book as this Bible is. The Book itself is full of wonders, and one of those wonders is that it reveals him whose name is “Wonderful.” Observe that the psalmist, having...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
The entrance of thy words giveth light,.... The beginning of them; the first three chapters in Genesis, what light do they give into the origin of all things; the creation of man, his state of innocence; his fall through the temptations of Satan, and his recovery and salvation by Christ, the seed of the woman, the first principles of the oracles...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
The entrance of thy words giveth light; The very first principles, the elements of God’s Word, are full of light and no sooner does it come into the heart than there is light directly. How much more light does it give when it penetrates into the secret chambers of our being, and we begin to understand its deeper mysteries! Psa_119:130. It giveth...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
The entrance of thy words giveth light; Those who are most ignorant, and have least confidence in their own abilities, will nevertheless become very wise if they study God’s Word.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
It giveth understanding unto the simple. I opened my mouth, and panted: for I longed for thy commandments. What a wonderful verse that is! The psalmist cannot describe his longing for God’s commandments except by going to the brute creation for a suitable metaphor. He had probably seen the hunted stag stand still, and pant to get its breath, all...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
I opened my mouth, and panted,.... As a person out of breath does, through walking or running; he stops and pants, and opens his mouth, to draw in air to his relief: or as hungry and thirsty persons pant for food and drink, and open their mouths to receive it, before it can well be brought to them. So the psalmist panted after God, and communion...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I opened my mouth, and panted: That was an admirable way of praying; no words were used by the psalmist, but his soul expressed itself by panting: “As the hart panteth after the water brooks, so panteth my soul after thee, O God.” Psa_119:131. For I longed for thy commandments. The very best kind of prayer is that inarticulate panting, in which...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Look thou upon me,.... Not as in himself; a sinful creature will not bear looking upon by the Lord, especially with the strict eye of justice; but as in Christ, and clothed with his righteousness; and so not merely in a providential way, though that is a favour, but in a way of special grace and mercy. It may be rendered, "turn unto me" (r); as it...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Look thou upon me, and be merciful unto me, as thou usest to do unto those that love thy name. Order my step, in thy word: “Lord, I have found the way into thy Word, that is the road I intend to travel; now I pray thee to guide my every step.” They say that “Order is heaven’s first law,” and certainly a Christian should lead an orderly life. He...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Look thou upon me, — That is all the psalmist wants, and all that we want, too. If a look from us to God will save us, what must a look from God to us do for us? “Look thou upon me,” —
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And be merciful unto me, as thou usest to do unto those that love thy name. Order my steps in thy word: and let not any iniquity have dominion over me. Deliver me from the oppression of man: so will I keep thy precepts. Some of you, perhaps, may hardly be able to do as you would if you were perfectly free to act, for you are to a certain extent...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Order my steps in thy word,.... Or, "by thy word" (s), or "according" to it. Which is the rule of practice and action, as well as of faith; and happy are they who walk according to the directions of it; but it is not in the power of man to order and direct his steps: this is done by the Lord; and such who acknowledge him in their ways, and apply...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And let not any iniquity have dominion over me. A hypocrite says to himself, “I do not swear, I do not steal, and I do not lie, yet I allow other sins to have dominion over me;” but a true man of God will not have any master but the Lord Jesus Christ. He will not put his neck under the foot of even the most attractive sin: “Let not any iniquity...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Deliver me from the oppression of man,.... Of any man, of proud and haughty men, as in Psalms 119:122; the psalmist always desired rather to fall into the hands of God than into the hands of wicked men, whose tender mercies are cruel. Some render it, "from the oppression of Adam", as Jarchi observes; and Arama interprets it of the sin of Adam, and...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Deliver me from the oppression of man: so will I keep thy precepts. He does not mean that he will not keep God’s precepts if he is not delivered from man’s oppression; but there are persons in such circumstances, — Christian wives with wicked husbands, godly servants with ungodly masters, believers who are greatly oppressed by evil men, —and they...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Make thy face to shine upon thy servant,.... That is, lift up the light of thy countenance on me; favour me with thy gracious presence, and communion with thyself; manifest thyself unto me, and shed abroad thy love in my heart; cause the sun of righteousness to arise upon me, and commune with me, from above thy mercy seat; restore to me the joys...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Make thy face to shine upon thy servant; What a blessed prayer that is! Let each one here pray it tonight: “Make thy face to shine upon thy servant.” The Lord is our sun; he is the very sun of heaven; they need no sun there because they see his face. Psa_119:135. And teach me thy statutes. The Lord’s servant ought to know the law of his Lord’s...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Make thy face to shine upon thy servant; That is the best sunshine for us; let us but have the light of God’s countenance, and nothing can put us out of countenance. If the Lord will smile, men may frown as much as they please. So we pray with the psalmist, “Make thy face to shine upon thy servant.”
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And teach me thy statues. Rivers of waters run down mine eyes, because they keep not thy law. The psalmist felt for others as well as for himself. It was not enough for him to be holy; he would have others to be the same. Sin in other men brought sorrow to his heart: “Rivers of waters run down mine eyes, because they keep not thy law.”