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John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Open thou mine eyes,.... The eyes of my heart or understanding, as Kimchi; or, "reveal mine eyes" (t); take off the veil from them: there is a veil of darkness and ignorance on the hearts of all men, with respect to divine and spiritual things; their understandings are darkened, yea, darkness itself. This veil must be removed; the scales must drop...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Open thou mine eyes, that I may behold wondrous things out of thy law. They are there, but I cannot see them unless thou open my eyes. It is not that thy Word is dark, but that my eyes are dim. Yea, by nature they are blinded altogether. Oh! thou, who art the great Physician of the blind, open thou my eyes.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Open thou mine eyes, that I may behold wondrous things out of thy law. The wonders are there: cause me to behold them. A man may have a fair landscape before him, rich in all beauties of form and colour, but if his eyes be closed, what is he better for it?
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Open thou mine eyes, that I may behold wondrous things out of thy law. This is one of the first parts of God’s bountiful dealings with us. There is no mercy that is so great as mercy to one’s own person, to one’s own eyes, for instance, which are such essential parts of ourselves. Lord, when thou art dealing bountifully with me, I do not ask for...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
I [am] a stranger in the earth,.... As all his fathers were, and all the saints are; not to divine and spiritual things; to God, and communion with him; to Christ, and the knowledge of him; to the Spirit, and his operations in their hearts; to their own hearts, and the plague of them; to the Gospel, and its truths; nor to the people of God, and...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I am a stranger in the earth: hide not thy commandments from me. Do you see the drift of that? He says, “I .am a stranger here. Then, Lord, if thou do not become, and continue to be, my acquaintance, I am altogether alone.” It is true of the Christian that he cannot find anything here that can satisfy his soul. He must, therefore, have the Lord,...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I am a stranger in the earth: hide not thy commandments from me. “I am a stranger in the earth.” I do not belong now to it: I am born and bound for heaven: I am a pilgrim here: men do not understand me, neither have I any settled business here. “I am a stranger in the earth: hide not thy commandments from me.” Oh, remember that I am thy alien,thy...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I am a stranger in the earth: hide not thy commandments from me, Humane men deal kindly with exiles; God has commanded us to be generous to strangers, and he will certainly be so himself. Lord, because of thy love, I find myself like an exile among the sons of men; but be not thou thyself strange to me. What should I do, in this world, without...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
My soul breaketh for the longing,.... His heart was just ready to break, and his soul fainted; he was ready to die, through a vehement desire of enjoying the object longed for, after mentioned; "hope deferred makes the heart sick", Proverbs 13:1; the phrase is expressive of the greatness, vehemence, and eagerness of his mind after the thing he...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
My soul breaketh for the longing that it hath unto thy judgments at all times. We cannot always say that, for we sometimes wish that our hearts would break. Sometimes we sing: — “My heart rejoice or ache: Resolve this doubt for me; And if it be not broken, break And heal it if it be.”
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
My soul breaketh for the longing that it hath unto thy judgments at all times. Broken souls are many: but not on this account! Oh, how few are in danger of breaking, through such a longing as this ! Would God there were many more that did sigh and cry after the Word of God; for longings such as these are sure to lead to an earnest search, and the...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
My soul breaketh for the longing that it hath unto thy judgments at all times. Thou hast rebuked the proud that are cursed, which do err from thy commandments. God cannot bear the proud; it is very seldom that they can bear one another; and if proud men loathe pride as they see it in others, you may rest assured that the good and great God will...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Thou hast rebuked the proud,.... Which some understand of the fallen angels, who, in proud wrath, left their habitations, because they would not be subject to the Son of God in human nature; wherefore he scattered them in the imaginations of their hearts, and cast down these mighty ones into hell, where they are reserved in chains of darkness to...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Thou hast rebuked the proud that are cursed, which do err from thy commandments. A proud man is surely a sinful man. He may think himself a righteous man, but he cannot be so. He has gone far astray from the very essence of God’s law, which is that he should walk humbly with his God.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Thou hast rebuked the proud that are cursed, which do err from thy commandments. Wherever there is pride in the heart, there is sure to be error in the life. A proud man is wrong, to begin with, and as long as he continues proud, he must be wrong. It is not possible for him to be right. God has rebuked him, and God has cursed him. How wise it...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Remove from me reproach and contempt,.... Or, "roll [it] from me" (u). It lay as a load, as a heavy burden upon him, which pressed him sore; and he therefore desired ease from it, being probably in a low frame of soul; otherwise saints do and should rejoice when reproached for Christ's sake; and esteem it, with Moses, more than all the treasures...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Remove from me reproach and contempt; for I have kept thy testimonies. A man that does that is pretty sure to be reproached and to be contemned by man; for they think that one who follows God faithfully “is very old-fashioned, he has not much spirit, he has not drunk in the philosophy of the age, he is a fossilized Christian,” and so on. Well, we...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Remove from me reproach and contempt; for I have kept thy testimonies. He had lived honestly and uprightly, and yet men slandered him. Was there ever a man upon earth, who was good and true, who was not slandered? God himself was slandered in paradise by the old serpent, and the Lord Jesus was constantly being slandered by wicked men, so can any...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Remove from me reproach and contempt; for I have kept thy testimonies. O Lord, do not suffer men to believe lies and slanders against me, or if they do let my conscience sustain my courage by the consciousness that I have kept thy testimonies.
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Princes also did sit [and] speak against me,.... The princes in the court of Saul, who suggested to him that David sought his hurt; the princes of his own court, Absalom, his own son, a prince of the blood, and Ahithophel, a counsellor of state: or the princes of the Gentiles, as Jarchi; so the princes of the Philistines spake against him in a...