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Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
The sun shall not smite thee by day, nor the moon by night. Then, when canst thou get hurt? If thou art protected both day and night, these make up all the time. God does not make a new sun for his people, the sun would smite us as well as others, but he takes the sting out of the sun’s excessive brightness: and we have the same sickly moon as...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Thee Lord shall preserve them from all evil,.... The Word of the Lord, as the Targum. Not from the evil of affliction, though from that as a penal evil; or as a real one, it being made to work for good: but from the evil of sin; not from the being or commission of it; but from its dominion and damning power, or from a final and total falling away...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
The LORD shall preserve thee from all evil: he shall preserve thy soul. It is a great pity that our admirable translation did not keep to the word “keep” all through the psalm, for all along it is one. God not only keeps his own in all evil times but from all evil influences and operations, yea, from evils themselves. This is a far-reaching word...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
The LORD shall preserve thee from all evil: he shall preserve thy soul. That is the soul of our preservation; if the life, the soul, be kept, then are we kept altogether.
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
The Lord shall preserve thy going out, and thy coming in,.... In transacting all the business of life, in going in and out about it; in all ways, works, and conversation; in journeying and travelling; in all affairs, civil and religious; and not only preserve, but prosper in all, Psalms 1:3; the Lord blessing him, coming in and going out,...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
The LORD shall preserve thy going out and thy coming in — Thine early days of youth, when thou art going out into life; and thy coming in, when the older days creep over thee, and thou art coming in to God and heaven; thy going out into business, and thy coming in to private devotion. Psa_121:8. From this time forth, and even for evermore. Let us,...