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Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Princes also did sit and speak against me: but thy servant did meditate in thy statutes. And a great man’s word goes a long way with some people. They think a prince a great authority. “But thy servant did meditate in thy statutes.” He did not burst out in angry reply, he did not give fierce railing for railing, but he sat himself down as quietly...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Princes also did sit and speak against me: but thy servant did meditate in thy statutes. Sometimes, men can bear what the commonalty say; but to have the great ones of the earth speaking against them, is thought by some to be very hard. The psalmist says, “Princes also did sit and speak against me.” What did he do under such circumstances? Did he...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Princes also did sit and speak against me: Had they nothing else to do, but talk against God’s servants? No; they sat down to do it with deliberation. “Princes also did sit and speak against me.” Psa_119:23. But thy servant did. “Go to law with them?” No not so here. “But thy servant got in the face and defended himself?” No, no. Look, you will...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Thy testimonies also [are] my delight,.... Or "delights" (x); exceeding delightful to me. The whole of Scripture is so to a good man; he delights in the law of God, after the inward man; the Gospel is a joyful sound to him; the doctrines of peace, pardon, righteousness, and salvation by Christ, are very pleasant; the promises of it give more joy...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Thy testimonies also are my delight and my counselors. My soul cleaveth unto the dust: quicken thou me according to thy word. Here he prays for quickening. He felt the spiritual death that was so natural to him, the heaviness of his heart, the tendency to sink, the attractions of the world.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Thy testimonies also are my delight and my counsellors. While these princes were taking counsel against the psalmist, he also went and took Counsel’s advice against them; but that Counsel’s advice was the advice of the Word of God. He stuck to the Scriptures. Little as he had of them, yet that little he greatly prized. The Pentateuch furnished him...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Thy testimonies also are my delight and my counsellors. Because I love them and delight in them. I submit my life to their guidance. I go to thy Book to ask what I shall do. I consult it as the oracle of God. I take my doubts, and difficulties, and dilemmas there, and I find that they are all met. “Thy testimonies are my delight and my...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
d DALETH.--The Fourth Part. Ver. 25. DALETH. My soul cleaveth unto the dust,.... Either to the dust of death, having the sentence of it; being almost in despair of life, upon the brink of the grave seemingly, and free among the dead: or in a very low estate of mind, in great dejection and humiliation, rolling himself in the dust, and putting his...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
My soul cleaveth unto the dust: quicken thou me according to thy word. I have declared my ways, and thou heardest me: teach me thy statutes. Make me to understand the way of thy precepts: so shall I talk of thy wondrous works. My soul melteth for heaviness: strengthen thou me according unto thy word. The Word of the Lord is available for...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
My soul cleaveth unto the dust: quicken thou me according to thy word. Ah! there is a note of sadness here. The Psalmist complains of himself. He found himself very sorrowful, and he could not get out of the sorrow; or he found himself very full of business cares, and he could not get rid of them. “My soul cleaveth to the dust” — as though it was...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
My soul cleaveth unto the dust: “It sticks to it as though it were glued to it; my soul cannot be lifted up, at least by myself, out of its sadness, and its earthiness.” The psalmist was not one who could boast of perfection. He had to lament that the earth, which was in him by nature, made even his soul cleave to mother earth. He did not like it;...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
My soul cleaveth unto the dust: quicken thou me according to thy word. “I feel heavy, unhappy, dull: ‘My soul cleaveth unto the dust.’ Or I feel worldly, lethargic, lifeless: ‘My soul cleaveth unto the dust.’ There is nothing but the power of new life that can separate me from that dust: ‘ Quicken thou me according to thy word.’” Divine life is...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
My soul cleaveth unto the dust: quicken thou me according to thy word. He does not like to feel the cleaving of his soul to the dust. There are some that feel it, but they seem content to continue in that condition; but no sooner does David feel it than he cries “Quicken thou me.” A sense of sin is of small value, unless it leads us to desire to...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
I have declared my ways,.... That is, to the Lord; either the ways he had chose and desired to walk in, and not wander from, and therefore entreated help and assistance, guidance and direction, in them; or his sinful ways and actions, which he acknowledged and confessed, lamented and bewailed, and entreated the forgiveness of; or all his counsels...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I have declared my ways, and thou heardest me: teach me thy statutes. Open confession is good for the soul, and I have made this confession: thou hast heard me: now “teach me thy statutes.”
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I have declared my ways, and thou heardest me: teach me thy statutes. A confession had been made: “I have declared my ways.” That confession had been accepted: “Thou heardest me.” Then a petition is offered: “Teach me thy statutes.” “Thou seest that I confess how wrong I was. Now give me grace that I may not go wrong again.” May that be our spirit...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I have declared my ways, and thou heardest me: “I have made a full confession to thee, my God. I have owned my fault wherein I was wrong, and I have thanked thee for thy grace given to me in anything wherein I was right.” Psa_119:26. Teach me thy statutes. “O Lord, let me not have such a sorry tale to tell again. If my copy of thy handwriting has...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
if have declared my ways, and thou heardest me: teach me thy statutes. “I have confessed my wrong; now, O Lord, teach me what is right! I have owned my sin; now, O Lord, lead me in the paths of holiness! ‘Teach me thy statutes.’”
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I have declared my ways, and thou heardest me: teach me thy statues. I have told thee all about myself. Now tell me about thyself. “Teach me thy statutes.”
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Make me to understand the way of thy precepts,.... The meaning of them, to have a more comprehensive, clear, and distinct knowledge of them; and to be led into the way they direct unto, and walk therein; so shall I talk of thy wondrous works; the works of creation, providence, redemption, and grace; with more knowledge and understanding, with more...