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Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I am small and despised: yet do not I forget thy precepts. In verse 139, the psalmist complained that his enemies had forgotten God’s words, and he does not complain of the fault in others, and then fall into it himself; but he says, “Yet do not I forget thy percepts.” There are some people who seem to think that it does not much matter what they...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I am small and despised: yet do not I forget thy precepts. Others may, but I am not following their example. It is well when a Christian man is a contrast to other men. When they call him a mere nobody, he adopts their words, and says, “Yes, I am nothing, ‘I am small and despised,’ yet I do not forget the Lord’s precepts.”
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Thy righteousness [is] an everlasting righteousness,.... Or, "is for ever" (z). The rectitude of his nature, his faithfulness in his promises, and his kindness and beneficence to his people; and particularly the righteousness of God revealed in the Gospel; the righteousness of his Son, which he approves and accepts of, and imputes to him that...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Thy righteousness is an everlasting righteousness, God’s Word does not change, it is everlasting; and the righteousness which it reveals and which it proclaims to us is everlasting. Psa_119:142. And thy law is the truth. God’s Word is not only true, but it is “the truth.” The truth is God’s law, and God’s law is the truth.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Thy righteousness is an everlasting righteousness, — What a wonderful sentence! Just now, the psalmist said, “Thy testimonies that thou hast commanded are righteousness.” (See the marginal reading of verse 138.) Now he advances another step, and says, “Thy righteousness is an everlasting righteousness.” Psa_119:142. And thy law is the truth. That...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Thy righteousness is an everlasting righteousness, and thy law is the truth. Pilate asked, “What is truth?” Here is the best possible answer: “Thy law is the truth.” Not only does it contain the truth, but it is the truth. The Word of God is not only true, that is its quality; but it is the truth, that is its essence. It is the cream of all...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Trouble and anguish have taken hold on me,.... Or, "found me" (a). Outward troubles and inward distress; troubles arising from his enemies, the men of the world, that hated and persecuted him; and from a body of sin and death, from the temptations of Satan, and divine desertions; some from without, and others from within; troubles both of body and...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Trouble and anguish have taken hold on me: Just now he said that he was despised, and now he says he is unhappy. Trouble without, and anguish within, seemed to grip him as in a vice. Psa_119:143. Yet thy commandments are my delights. A man of the world cannot understand how a Christian can be in trouble and yet be full of delight; but it is true....
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Trouble and anguish have taken hold on me: yet thy commandments are my delight. What a curious mixture this verse describes! Here is a man full of trouble and anguish, and yet full of delight at the same time. Little do they understand human nature, and especially gracious human nature, who cannot comprehend this paradox. There are many seeming...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Trouble and anguish have taken hold on me: yet thy commandments are my delights. “Trouble and anguish have taken hold on me:” like two fierce dogs they had fixed their teeth in him; yet even then he could say, “yet thy commandments are my delights.” What a riddle is the man who knows God! He has great trouble and is full of anguish, yet he is...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
The righteousness of thy testimonies [is] everlasting,.... Or, "for ever" (b). The righteousness which they require, or which they publish; the righteousness revealed in the Gospel, which is the righteousness of Christ; [See comments on Psalms 119:142]; give me understanding, and I shall live; an understanding of the testimonies of the Lord, of...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
The righteousness of thy testimonies is everlasting: give me understanding, That is a great prayer, not only, “give me to understand,” but “give me understanding.” It is one thing to tell a man the truth, but quite another thing to make him understand it; and if you make him understand that particular truth, he may not understand another, but...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
The righteousness of thy testimonies is everlasting: give me understanding, and I shall live. Now let us read what the Lord Jesus said to those who professed to reverence the Scripture, but who really made it void by their traditions. This exposition consisted of readings from Psa_119:129-144; and Mat_15:1-13.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
The righteousness of thy testimonies is everlasting: give me understanding, and I shall live. As if he could not live without it, he did not call it true living except as he understood and enjoyed the precepts of his God.
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
q, KOPH.--The Nineteenth Part. Ver. 145. KOPH. I cried with [my] whole heart,.... Prayer is often expressed by crying; which sometimes signifies mental, and sometimes vocal prayer; and generally supposes the person praying to be in distress, either outward or inward. This prayer of the psalmists was hearty and cordial, not with his mouth and lips...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I cried with my whole heart; hear me, O LORD: I will keep thy statutes. Here we have both a prayer and a resolve; but the resolution grew out of the prayer, and was connected with it. The psalmist prays to God to help him to keep his statutes. Are any of you hard put to it just now by strong temptation? I commend this verse to you: “Hear me, O...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I cried with my whole heart; hear me. O LORD: I will keep thy statutes. It is sweet to look back upon our prayers, if those prayers were uttered with our whole heart, for it is no small work of divine grace to enable us to throw the whole heart into prayer; and when we get that we may be quite sure that our prayer will succeed. The God who gives...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I cried with my whole heart: hear me, O LORD: I will keep thy statutes. In the time of trouble there is no resort like that of prayer, but it must be intense and earnest. “I cried with my whole heart.” And sometimes it should be accompanied with a resolve to profit by the affliction. “I will keep thy statutes.” As the child under the rod prays to...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
I cried unto thee; save me,.... In his distress he cried and prayed to the Lord; and this was a principal and leading petition, that he would "save" him out of all his troubles and afflictions, and out of the hands of all his enemies; and with a temporal, spiritual, and eternal salvation which he knew he was able to do, and none else; and I shall...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I cried unto thee; It is good when you can cry. The living child cries, and it is the man of God whose prayer is a cry of almost inarticulate utterance and grief: “I cried,” “I cried.” What did he cry? Psa_119:146. Save me, and I shall keep thy testimonies. David had no notion of salvation without obedience; so he prays, “Save me, and I shall keep...