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Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
My substance was not hid from thee, when I was made in secret, and curiously wrought in the lowest parts of the earth. Thine eyes did see my substance, yet being unperfect; and in thy book all my members were written, which in continuance were fashioned, when as yet there was none of them. How precious also are thy thoughts unto me, O God! How...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
My substance was not hid from thee, when I was made in secret, and curiously wrought — Embroidered, as it were, with a needle. So extraordinary is the body of man, that it may be compared to the needlework of God: “curiously wrought”
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
In the lowest parts of the earth. Thine eyes did see my substance, yet being unperfect; and in thy book all my members mere written,— Just as an architect sketches his plan for a building, and specifies so much of this and that, so the psalmist represents God as writing down in a book all the members of our body.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
My substance was not hid from thee, when I was made in secret, and curiously wrought in the lowest parts of the earth. God made us in his secret workshop by a marvelous method of divine power.
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Thine eyes did see my substance, yet being unperfect,.... The word (q) for "substance" signifies a bottom of yarn wound up, or any rude or unformed lump; and designs that conglomerated mass of matter separated in the womb, containing all the essentials of the human frame, but not yet distinguished or reduced into any form or order; yet, even when...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Which in continuance were fashioned, when as yet there was none of them. God mapped out what he intended that we should be, even when as yet we were not in existence, and from our earliest days he cared for us. If we look back upon our infancy, that considerable period of life in which we were utterly helpless, and could do nothing whatever for...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Thine eyes did see my substance, yet being unperfect; and in thy book all my members were written, which in continuance were fashioned, when as yet there was none of them. God’s wonderful foreknowledge enabled him to know us even before we knew ourselves, or anyone else knew us; and in the very making of us, the creation of our body and mind and...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
How precious also are thy thoughts unto me, O God!.... The word (r) signifies that which is scarce and rare, and not to be attained and enjoyed; see 1 Samuel 3:1; the thoughts and counsels of God are impenetrable and unsearchable; he knows our thoughts, as Aben Ezra observes, but we do not know his, Psalms 139:2; as well as it likewise signifies...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
How precious also are thy thoughts unto me, O God! how great is the sum of them! How often God has thought of each one of us! Remember that, if you were the only man in all the world, he would not think more of you than he does now that you are only one of myriads of myriads. The infinite mind of God is not divided by the multiplicity of the...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
How precious also are thy thoughts unto me, O God! how great is the sum of them! If I should count them, they are more in number than the sand: when I awake, I am still with thee. Surely Thou wilt slay the wicked, O God: — It must be so; God cannot let sinners continue to live, and provoke him to his face. He must, one day, take down the sword of...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
How precious also are thy thoughts unto me, O God ! how great is the sum of them ! “l love to remember that thou, my God, art thinking of me. I am not distressed or alarmed by that recollection; I do not say, ‘ How terrible are thy thoughts unto me, O God! ‘but, How precious’ — how consoling, how full of promises of blessing to me,’ — are thy...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
How precious also are thy thoughts unto me, O God! how great is the sum of them! How many thoughts has God towards us! We cannot count them, and how kind are those thoughts — we cannot estimate them — how precious, how great!
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
If I should count them, they are more in number than the sand,...., That is, if I should attempt to do it, it would be as vain and fruitless as to attempt to count the sands upon the seashore, which are innumerable; Psalms 11:5. So Pindar says (s), that sand flies number, that is, is not to be numbered; though the Pythian oracle boastingly said...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
If I should count them, they are more in number than the sand: when I awake, I am still with thee. “Thou hast thought of me when I was asleep, and when I wake, I think of thee.” Happy living, happy dying, to feel that, if we never wake again on earth, we shall wake up with God! How precious it is to think that when good and useful men fall asleep,...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
If I should count them, they are more in number than the sand: when I awake, I am still with thee. “Whether I sleep or wake, thou art with me; but, better still, I am with thee. Ere I fell asleep, I put my soul into thy hands; and when I awoke, I found it there.”
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
If I should count them, they are more in number than the sand: when I awake, I am still with thee. “Thou dost lull me to sleep, and thou dost awake me in the morning; and when I open my eyes, thou art still there.” Happy believer, who is always with God! Why should not you and I, dear friends, always be consciously in the presence of God? We are...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
If I should count them, they are more in number than the sand: when I awake, I am still with thee. I suppose I had finished the tale, had counted up all thy thoughts to me, and then fell asleep. I should then but begin to count again, for thou continuest to thrust out mercies from thy hand. My God, my numeration shall never overtake thee, much...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Surely thou wilt slay the wicked, O God,.... Since he is God omniscient, and knows where they are, what they have done, are doing, and design to do; and God omnipresent, at hand to lay hold upon them; and God omnipotent, to hold them and inflict due punishment on them; this is a consequence rightly drawn from the above perfections of God. Or "if...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Surely thou wilt slay the wicked, O God: It cannot be that God, who sees everything, will for ever endure the wickedness of men. It cannot be that he will suffer all crime and villainy and blasphemy to escape with impunity: “Surely thou wilt slay the wicked, O God.” Psa_139:19. Depart from me therefore, ye bloody men. “I do not want to be with...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Depart from me therefore, ye bloody men. “Get you gone, lest, when he comes to smite you, I should have to see you die.”