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Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I cried unto thee; save me, and I shall keep thy testimonies. He has got on this string, you see, and he touches it again. First he said, “I cried with my whole heart.” Now again he says, “I cried unto thee.” When you are in trouble, if you can remember that you were much in prayer before you entered into the experience which led into the trouble,...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I cried unto thee: save me, and I shall keep thy testimonies. As if he felt that the force of gratitude would constrain him to obedience. He did not merely promise it, but he prophesied it as a matter of certainty that he should keep the Lord’s testimony.
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
I prevented the dawning of the morning, and cried,.... That is, he awoke and got up, and prayed, before the day broke, the morning looked forth, or the sun arose: he was early as well as earnest in his supplications to God; see Psalms 5:3; as Christ, his antitype, rose early in the morning, a great while before day, and went out to a solitary...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I prevented the dawning of the morning, and cried: The psalmist was still crying, crying early in the morning; before the sun was up, he was up, and crying unto God. Psa_119:147. I hoped in thy word. It is well when hope goes with prayer, when you begin to see daylight even before the sun is up. “I hoped in thy Word.” Not in any enthusiastic...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I prevented the dawning of the morning, and cried: I hoped in thy word. Mine eyes prevent the night watches, that I might meditate in thy word. It was not now and then that David was in a devotional frame of mind. He continued so. He began early, but he continued late. The prayer of the down was followed by the watch of the midnight.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I prevented the dawning of the morning, and cried: I hoped in thy word. Early prayers seem seasonable. Before we have gone into the world, should we not first go to our God? Prayer ought to be the key of the morning to open it, as well as the key of the night to close it. And notice what should always be associated with prayer, namely, hope. “I...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Mine eyes prevent the [night] watches,.... The Targum is, "the morning and evening watches.'' There were three of them; Kimchi interprets it of the second and third; the meaning is, that the psalmist was awake and employed in one religious exercise or another, praying, reading, or meditating; either before the watches were set, or however before...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Mine eyes prevent the night watches, that I might meditate in thy word. As he was up before the sun, so he was praying before they set the guards for the night-watch; and when they were changing guards, and he heard the cry of the hour from the watchman, he was still crying to God; and at the same time he was meditating: “that I might meditate in...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Mine eyes prevent the night watches, that I might meditate in thy word. Before the watchman can cry the hour of night, mine eyes are upon the Word of God, and I am studying that. Oh! it is well when we prove our love to the Word of God by our meditation upon it, our constant, searching into it.
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Hear my voice according unto thy lovingkindness,.... Not according to his own merits and deserts, or works of righteousness done by him, for the sake of which he did not present his supplications to God; nor according to his love to him, which often waxed cold, and he in a poor lukewarm frame of spirit; but according to the lovingkindness of God,...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Hear my voice — So the psalmist used to pray aloud. It is a very great help in prayer if you can do the same. If we pray aloud to be heard of men, it is a sin; but if we pray aloud that we may hear ourselves, so that our devotion may be excited, we shall often find it very profitable, and if people hear us by accident, so much the better; they are...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Hear my voice according unto thy lovingkindness: O LORD, quicken me according to thy judgment. He was accustomed to put these two things together, all through this judgment — as much as if he felt that he could appeal both to the tenderness and to the justice of God for help in his time of need; for with a God who has entered into the bonds of the...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Hear my voice according unto thy lovingkindness: Not according to my earnestness, much less according to my merit, but “Hear my voice, according to thy loving-kindness.” Oh! what a large measure this, for who can tell how boundless is the loving-kindness of God? Such be the answer to my prayer, O my Lord. Psa_119:149. O LORD, quicken me according...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
They draw nigh that follow after mischief,.... Or "evil" (c); that which is sinful in itself, and injurious to others. Some cannot sleep unless they do mischief; they are bent upon it, and proceed from evil to evil: they are eager in their pursuit of it, as the huntsman after his sport, to which the allusion is; though it is to their ruin, even to...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
They draw nigh that follow of after mischief: He could hear the sound of their feet behind him; they were running after him, and he could detect the pit-pat of their malicious footsteps.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
They are far from thy law. Thou art near, O LORD; What a comfort that is! They are trying to get near, but thou art near. I can hear the tread of their feet behind me, but I can see thy face close to me. How comforted is the psalmist in the time of trouble! His adversaries may be as keen of scent as bloodhounds, but God is with him, therefore he...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
They draw nigh that follow after mischief: they are far from thy law. Thou art near, O LORD: And all thy commandments are truth. How beautiful this! The enemies are coming near, but thou art nearer They approach me, but I abide with thee, and thou abidest with me, I am safe.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
They draw nigh that follow after mischief: they are far from thy law. Dogs are at my heels. I have heard them long ago pursuing me, but now they are getting nearer to me than ever.
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Thou [art] near, O Lord,.... This was the comfort of the psalmist, that though his enemies drew nigh with a mischievous design upon him, yet his God was also near, and nearer than they; he was near as to relation to him, being his God and Father; near as to union, the bond of which is his everlasting love, which can never be dissolved; near as to...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And all thy commandments are truth, Concerning thy testimonies, I have known of old that thou hast founded them for ever. So that this Psalm was written by David when he was an old man. He had known the Lord’s commandments when he was young, and now, in his declining days, he can say, “I have known of old that thou hast founded them for ever.” O...