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Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I will also clothe her priests with salvation: and her saints shall shout aloud for joy. The prayer in the 8th verse was, “Arise, O Lord, into thy rest.” In the 14th verse, we read the answer, “This is my rest for ever: here will I dwell.” Then in the 9th verse was the petition, “Let thy priests be clothed with righteousness.” Now the Lord gives...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I will also clothe her priests with salvation: and her saints, shall shout aloud for joy. In the 9th verse we had a silver prayer, but here, in this 16th verse, we have a golden answer. The prayer of the psalmist was, “ Let thy saints shout for joy;” the Lord’s answer is, “Her saints shall shout aloud for joy.” God always gives good measure,...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
There will I make the horn of David to bud,.... Which the Targum interprets "a glorious" King; and both Kimchi and Ben Melech, and also Arama, understand it of the Messiah, and very rightly; called the horn of the Lord's Anointed, and the horn of salvation, 1 Samuel 2:10 Lu 1:69; expressive of his power and strength, in allusion to the horns of...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
There will I make the horn of David to bud: As a stag’s horn grows, putting out fresh buds and branches, so shall the power of David be increased and enlarged. We see that promise fulfilled spiritually in the growing Kingdom of Christ. Psa_132:17. I have ordained a lamp for mine anointed. His name shall never go out like an extinguished lamp. If...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
There will I make the horn of David to bud: I have ordained a lamp for mine anointed. Oh, that today the horn of David might again bud! May every believer in Jesus feel the life of God reviving within him, and in many a case where there is no spiritual life at all may life divine begin today ! Pray for it, beloved; and then look for it, and you...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
His enemies will I clothe with shame, With the garments of shame, as the Targum; very different from the clothing of Zion's priests; all that are incensed against Christ as a King and Saviour shall sooner or later be ashamed; either here, when brought to a sense of their evil, to repentance for it, and faith in him; or hereafter, at the...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
His enemies will I clothe with shame: In this Psalm two sets of clothing are mentioned; and you can have which you like. Here is one, “I will clothe her priests with salvation;” and there is the other, “His enemies will I clothe with shame? Shame is a terrible thing, many a man has thrown away his life to try to escape from the shame of a guilty...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
His enemies will I clothe with shame: but upon himself shall his crown flourish. We have no King but Jesus and his crown is always flourishing. It wears well upon a blessed head. Let us crown him once again this day with our gladsome praise and thanksgiving.