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Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I cried unto thee, O LORD: What a mercy that David was driven to do that! If there had been any earthly refuge, he would have fled to it. If there had been some human being at his right hand to help him, probably he would have trusted to him. If any man had cared for his soul, peradventure he would have trusted in that person, but now that every...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I cried unto thee, O LORD: Ah! that is the thing to do. When no man will know you, God will know you. When no man cares for you, God will care for you. Prayer is an unfailing resort. “I cried unto thee, O Lord.” Psa_142:5. I said, Thou art my refuge and my portion in the land of the living. See how he clings to his God now. We never do cling to...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I cried unto thee, O LORD: I said, Thou art my refuge and my portion in the land of the living. “I left the broken reeds alone, and leaned upon my God. I said, Thou art my refuge and my portion in the land of the living.”
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Attend unto my cry,.... His prayer and supplication for help in his distress, which he desires might be hearkened unto and answered; for I am brought very low; in his spirit, in the exercise of grace, being in great affliction, and reduced to the utmost extremity, weakened, impoverished, and exhausted; wanting both men and money to assist him,...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Attend unto my cry; for I am brought very low: deliver me from my persecutors; for they are stronger than I. Bring my soul out of prison, — This is a suitable prayer for those who have troubled consciences, for those who are shut up in Doubting Castle, and cannot get out without divine assistance. “Bring my soul out of prison,” —
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Attend unto my cry; for I am brought very low: What a blessed argument! Nothing can move God’s pity like it. “I am brought very low.” It is not your height that God will respect: it is your lowliness. O soul, it is not thy excellence that God regards: it is thy need —not thy goodness, but thy want of his goodness that he looks at; not thy...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Deliver me from my persecutors: for they are stronger than I. Bring my soul out of prison, that I may praise thy name: He asks for deliverance, and it is that he may praise God in it. So ought we always to desire mercies with this in view — that we may praise God the better for them.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Attend unto my cry; for I am brought very low: deliver me from my persecutors for they are stronger than I. Bring my soul out of prison, that I may praise thy name: the righteous shall compass me about; for thou shalt deal bountifully with me. This is a beautiful metaphor, suggesting that, when the saints heard that God brought him out of prison,...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Bring my soul out of prison,.... Not out of purgatory, to which some Popish writers wrest these words very absurdly; nor out of the prison of his body, as Joseph Ben Gorion (p); knowing that none but God had a power of removing it from thence; but out of the cave, where he was detained as in a prison, while Saul and his men were about the mouth of...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
That I may praise thy name: As soon as you are set at liberty, you ought at once to let your glad heart magnify the God who has broken your bonds, and brought you out of prison. Psa_142:7. The righteous shall compass me about; This is a beautiful idea, it seems to imply that they would be so astonished to find him at liberty that they would all...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
The righteous shall compass me about; for thou shalt deal bountifully with me. Lord, if thou art kind to me, all thy people will hear of it. When I get out of prison, they will say one to another, “Such-and-such a brother has got cheered and comforted. His face has changed. He is no more sad”; and they will come round me. They will begin to ask me...