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Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Thou art near, O LORD; Is not that a blessed sentence, that, when the adversaries are near, the Friend of friends is near too? What if he be like a hunted stag, and the dogs are at his heels, yet the omnipotent Lord, the Interposer, can come between and save his darling from the power of the dogs. Psa_119:151; Psa_119:159. And all thy commandments...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Concerning thy testimonies, I have known of old,.... Or, "from thy testimonies, I have known of old" (d): by carefully reading the Scriptures which testify of God, his mind an will, and frequently meditating on them, he had learned a long time ago, even from his youth, what follows, that thou hast founded them for ever; that the things contained...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Concerning thy testimonies, I have known of old that thou hast founded them for ever. Oh! believer, what comfort there is in this for you! If you have known it all your years, it has been a blessed thing to know that God changes not —that as he spake, or ever the earth was, so will that word abide when this world shall cease to be.
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
r, RESH.--The Twentieth Part. Ver. 153. RESH. Consider mine affliction, and deliver me,.... Or, "look upon mine affliction" (e); as in Psalms 25:18. The Lord seems as if he did not, when he does not grant his gracious presence to his people; or does not arise to the help and deliverance of them so soon as they desire and expect: but he always sees...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Consider mine affliction, and deliver me: for I do not forgot thy law. Lord, thy grace has helped me to remember thee. I pray thee, therefore, remember my affliction. Look at it with thy eyes of wisdom, and deliver me.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Consider mine affliction, and deliver me: for I do not forget thy law. Plead my cause, and deliver me: quicken me according to thy word. Salvation is far from the wicked: for they seek not thy statutes. If they sought that salvation, they would cease to be wicked; they would find salvation; but while they follow out their wicked ways they get...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Consider mine affliction, and deliver me: for I do not forget thy law. As much as if he said, “Lord, I do not forget thee; do not forget me.” Thy grace has kept my memory; let thy grace keep me altogether.
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Plead my cause, and deliver me,.... This shows that his affliction was chiefly from men, wicked, ungodly, and unreasonable men; such as were Saul and his courtiers, and a whole ungodly nation: his cause was a good one, and therefore he puts it into the hand of the Lord, and who otherwise would not have undertaken it; and this he did also because...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Plead my cause, and deliver me: quicken me according to thy word. Salvation is far from the wicked: for they seek not thy statutes. Salvation is near to any man who seeks it, but the ungodly, as they will not have God’s Word, so shall they not have God’s saving grace They are far from it.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Plead my cause, and deliver me: quicken me according to thy word. Salvation is far form the wicked: for they seek not thy statutes. great are thy tender mercies, O LORD: quicken me according to thy judgments. Oh! how the saints want quickening. They know they do. They feel that they get dull, and they cannot endure it. They are not happy unless...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Salvation [is] far from the wicked,.... Christ, the author of salvation, is far from them: he was far from the unbelieving Jews, even though salvation was of them, and he, the Saviour, was among them; and he is far from all unconverted persons, as to knowledge of him, faith in him, or love to him; and from all those that seek for salvation...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Great [are] thy tender mercies, O Lord,.... Not his providential mercies only, which are many and undeserved, and constantly repeated; but his special mercies in Christ, which flow from the tenderness of his heart; and his merciful lovingkindness to his people, and which are great or many (f), as to quantity; there being a multitude of them, not...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Great are thy tender mercies, O LORD: quicken me according to thy judgments. Here again, you see, he puts judgment and mercy together — the justice and the tenderness of God, and he leans on both. It is a mark of an instructed Christian when he is able to derive comfort, not merely from the love of God, but also from the holiness and the justice...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Great are thy tender mercies, O LORD: quicken me according to thy judgments. Many are my persecutors and mine enemies; yet do I not decline from thy testimonies. I beheld the transgressors, and was grieved; because they kept not thy word. It is enough to make any man grieve that the Word of God, which is so right, so just, so good, should be...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Many [are] my persecutors and mine enemies,.... Because they were his enemies, therefore they were his persecutors; and they became enemies to him, or hated him, because of his religion, and on that account persecuted him: and this has always been the lot and case of God's people in all ages; and whose persecutors are many, even the whole world,...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Many are my persecutors and mine enemies; yet do I not decline from thy testimonies. I beheld the transgressors, and was grieved; because they kept not thy word. O child of God, whenever you look upon the transgressors, your heart should bleed that they should transgress so good a law — that they should grieve so gracious a God — that they should...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Many are my persecutors and mine enemies: yet do I not decline from thy testimonies. I beheld the transgressors, and was grieved; because they kept not thy word. The very sight of them gave me sorrow. Even though they tried to be mirthful, I was not amused by them, and beheld them and was grieved, “Because they kept not thy word.”
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
I beheld the transgressors, and was grieved,.... Transgressors of the law of God, profane sinners; such as among whom he dwelt in Mesech and Kedar; it grieved him when he beheld their wicked life and conversation; as Lot in Sodom; and Isaiah and Jeremiah, among persons of unclean lips, and an assembly of treacherous men: and the word here used...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Consider how I love thy precepts,.... How ardently and affectionately, how cordially and sincerely, Psalms 119:127; and that was the reason why he was so grieved and distressed when wicked men transgressed and despised them; quicken me, O Lord, according to thy loving kindness; [See comments on Psalms 119:88].
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Consider how I love thy precepts: quicken me, O LORD, according to thy lovingkindness Thy word is true from the beginning: and every one of thy righteous judgments endureth for ever. And here is the very sweetness of the gospel — that it is not a thing of today, which will lose its efficiency tomorrow. It endureth for ever. You that have got it...