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John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Rivers of waters run down mine eyes,.... That is, "out of" them; as the Syriac version: or, "mine eyes let down rivers of waters" (t); see Lamentations 3:48; that is, an abundance of tears, which flowed like a river; an hyperbolical expression, setting forth the excessiveness of grief. The reason follows, because they keep not thy law; the persons...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Rivers of waters run down mine eyes, because they keep not thy law. Some think that the psalmist meant that his eyes wept because they, that is, his eyes did not keep God’s law. You know how easily sin comes in through the eyes, and goes out through the eyes, too. Well may those eyes weep in sorrow that have lusted towards sin. But I think the...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
u, TZADDI.--The Eighteenth Part. Ver. 137. TZADDI. Righteous [art] thou, O Lord,.... Essentially, originally, and of himself; naturally, immutably, and universally, in all his ways and works of nature and grace; in his thoughts, purposes, counsels, and decrees; in all the dispensations of his providence; in redemption, in the justification of a...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Righteous art thou, O LORD, and upright are thy judgments. It is always well to set God in contrast with wicked men. If others are unjust, he is not. If they forsake the truth, he does not.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Righteous art thou, O LORD, and upright are thy judgments. After having wept over the sin of men, the psalmist turns with sweet calmness of spirit to the goodness of God.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Righteous art thou, O LORD, and upright are thy judgments. It is well to be able to say this when you are being tried, when the hand of God lies heavy upon you; it is hard to kick against the pricks, but it is very sweet to submit, and to say, “Righteous art thou, O Lord, and upright are thy judgments.”
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Thy testimonies that thou hast commanded [are] righteous,.... The Scriptures are holy, just, and good; and what is contained in them are according to godliness; are for instruction in righteousness, and teach men to live soberly, righteously, and godly; and very faithful; or "true" (u): all the sayings in them are true and faithful sayings; for...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Thy testimonies that thou hast commanded are righteous and very faithful. True to the letter, true always, true to the core.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Thy testimonies that thou hast commanded are righteous and very faithful. “Very faithful.” You who have tried and proved God’s promises must have found them so; not only faithful, but very faithful, faithful to the letter, faithful to the moment. God seems rather to exceed his promise than ever to fall short of it.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Thy testimonies that thou hast commanded are righteous and very faithful. “Righteous” for the present, “faithful” for the future. There is no mistake about God’s Word, it will never fail, we may trust it implicitly, and we shall never be disappointed.
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
My zeal hath consumed me,.... Zeal for God and his glory, for his word and ordinances and worship; which is a fervour of the mind, burning love, and flaming affections for God, shown in a holy indignation against sin and sinners. This was a zeal according to knowledge, sincere and hearty, and what continued; and which was shown in embracing and...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Thy zeal hath consumed me, because mine enemies have forgotten thy words. Yes, God’s faithful servants become the more zealous when others grow cold. When they see that God’s words are forgotten by others, they remember them all the more, and they grow exceedingly zealous for the law of the Lord.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
My zeal hath consumed me, because mine enemies have forgotten thy words. Thy word is very pure: — Just now the psalmist said, “Thy testimonies are very faithful. Now he says, “Thy word is very pure.” There is no adulteration in this blessed Book; it is pure truth. You cannot add to it or take from it without making it imperfect: “Thy word is very...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
My zeal hath consumed me, The psalmist had such zeal for God’s Word that he seemed like a sacrifice consumed with the fire upon the Lord’s altar. Psa_119:139. Because mine enemies have forgotten thy words. First, they despised them, then, they neglected them, at last, they got as far as even to forget them. Forgetfulness of God’s Word is a very...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Thy word is very pure,.... Or, "exceedingly purified" (w): as silver tried in a furnace of earth, purified seven times, Psalms 12:6; free from, all drossy matter; from any mixtures, or the corruptions and doctrines of men; and which tends and leads to purity of heart and life; therefore thy servant loveth it; that which carnal men hate the word of...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Thy word is very pure: therefore thy servant loveth it. It is pure in the sense of being unadulterated, and it is pure in the sense of being holy. There is nothing in the Scripture that would lead us to sin, nor excuse it. It is a wonderful condemner of sin: “Thy word is very pure.” Notice the psalmist’s use of the word “very.” In the one hundred...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Therefore thy servant loveth it. It is only a pure heart that loves the pure Word of the Lord; so, if you love the Word of God because of its purity, it is an argument that your heart has been renewed by grace.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Thy word is very pure: therefore thy servant loveth it. To love God’s Word for its purity, is an index of a pure heart. Some love it for its poetry, some love it for its doctrine, some love it for its mercy; but he is an advanced man in the kingdom of grace who loves it for its purity.
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
I [am] small and despised,.... Or, "I have been" (x). Some versions render it "young" (y); as if it had respect to the time of his anointing by Samuel, when he was overlooked and despised in his father's family, 1 Samuel 16:11; but the word here used is not expressive of age, but of state, condition, and circumstances; and the meaning is, that he...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I am small and despised: yet do not I forget thy precepts. He was poor but pious, little but loving, despised but devoted. It was the man who had but one talent who went and digged in the earth, and hid his Lord’s money. David was not of that kind; he was small, but he knew he was not too small to sin; he was despised, but he did not on that...