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Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Consider how I love thy precepts: quicken me, O LORD, according to thy lovingkindness. It is a fair argument; as a friend may say to another, “Consider how I love you;” as a child might say to his angry father when he is about to chasten him, “My father, I love you, although I have transgressed; look at my heart, and see how I love you,...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Consider how I love thy precepts: quicken me, O LORD, according to thy lovingkindness. My heart is right, I do love thee; but I feel dull and heavy. Lord, come and quicken me, not according to my love to thee, but according to thy lovingkindness, come and quicken me. “Thy word is true from the beginning” — from the first page of the book of...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Thy word [is] true [from] the beginning,.... Every word of promise God made from the beginning of the world, and in any period of time; as to Adam, to Abraham, to the Israelites, or to any other person or persons; was true in itself, and faithfully performed, not one ever failed; particularly the promise concerning the Messiah, made to Adam in...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Thy word is true from the beginning: and every one of thy righteous judgments endureth for ever. Princes have persecuted me without a cause: but my heart standeth in awe of thy word. “Princes have persecuted me without a cause; but my heart standeth in awe of” — them? No, but “of thy Word.”
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Thy word is true from the beginning: and everyone of thy righteous judgments endureth for ever. “Princes have persecuted me without a cause.” David was a prince and a man expects to be fairly dealt with by his peers; but it was not so in this case.
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
v, SCHIN.--The Twenty-first Part. Ver. 161. SCHIN. Princes have persecuted me without a cause,.... These were either the princes of the Philistines at the court of Achish; or the princes of Israel, who joined in the conspiracy with Absalom; or the princes in Saul's court, as Kimchi observes; who insinuated that David had evil designs against the...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Princes have persecuted me without a cause; but my heart standeth in awe of thy word. Not in awe of their word, but in awe of thy word. The fear of God is the best cure for the fear of men. No man who is devout is cowardly. If thou fearest God with all thy heart, thou wilt defy all the devils in hell, and fear none.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Princes have persecuted me without a cause: but my heart standeth in awe of thy word. When we are in awe of God’s word, we shall not be in awe of princes. The fear of God is the best cure for the fear of men.
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
I rejoice at thy word, as one that findeth great spoil. At having it, which is a distinguishing blessing; all are not favoured with it; and is an inestimable treasure, a field in which a treasure lies; which those that find rejoice at, and especially at the understanding of it, as Kimchi notes: for such only delight in it who spiritually...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I rejoice at thy word, as one that findeth great spoil. I hate and abhor lying; but thy law do I love. Seven times a day do I praise thee because of thy righteous judgments. Great peace have they which love thy law: and nothing shall offend them. Whatever happens, they shall suffer no ill from it. “There shall no evil befall such, neither shall...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I rejoice at thy word, as one that findeth great spoil. I hate and abhor lying: but thy law do I love. Seven times a day do I praise thee because of thy righteous judgments, Great peace have they which love thy law: and nothing shall offend them. LORD, I have hoped for thy salvation, and done thy commandments. Present duty, future expectation. It...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I rejoice at thy word, as one that findeth great spoil. He had more joy in reading the Scriptures than in winning a great battle, or in being surprised at the finding of a great treasure.
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
I hate and abhor lying,.... The sin of lying in common conversation, which owes its rise to Satan, the father of lies; is common to human nature, though very dishonourable to it; exceeding unbecoming a professor of religion; and was greatly hated by David, as it ought to be by all good men, Psalms 101:7. Or "falsehood" (k); false doctrine;...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I hate and abhor lying: but thy law do I love. Now the Orientals did not hate lying; they generally tried to be proficient at it. The only fault about lying with them is to be found out. Then they think they must have been very unskillful. David, therefore, was far ahead of his time — far ahead of his fellow-countrymen.
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Seven times a day do I praise thee,.... That is, very often in a day; not a day passed over his head but he praised the Lord, and often in the day; so the phrase "seven times" is used, Psalms 12:6. Praise is comely for the saints, delightful and well pleasing to God, being offered up in faith and through Christ; and should be frequent, since our...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Seven times a day do I praise thee because of thy righteous judgments. He could not have enough of praise; he did it often, he did it perfectly —seven times a day — and if he praised God seven times a day because of his righteous judgments how much more ought we to do it because of his abounding grace! Ah! there is a special cause for thanks.
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Great peace have they which love thy law,.... The Targum adds, "in this world.'' Great prosperity, especially prosperity of soul, inward peace, peace of conscience, peace in Christ, and from him, flowing from his blood, righteousness, and sacrifice, and a view of interest therein; which is usually enjoyed in a way of believing, and frequently had...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Great peace have they which love thy law: and nothing shall offend them. LORD, I have hoped for thy salvation, and done thy commandments, Two good things to put together — hope in God’s mercy, and obedience to God’s will.
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Lord, I have hoped for thy salvation,.... Either temporal salvation and deliverance from enemies, and from afflictions, which God had promised, and therefore he had reason to hope for; or spiritual and eternal salvation, resolved on in the mind of God, provided in covenant, promised to be wrought out by Christ, and which since has been...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
LORD, I have hoped for thy salvation, and done thy commandments. Now, cannot some of you feeble people say that? You that cannot talk of full assurance, and are half afraid that you are none of the Lord’s people at all, yet you can say, “Lord, I have hoped for thy salvation, and done thy commandments;” and, if so, you have done that which proves...