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Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
The sorrows of death compassed me, and the floods of ungodly men made me afraid. The sorrows of hell compassed me about: the snares of death prevented me. In my distress I called upon the LORD, and cried unto my God: he heard my voice out of his temple, and my cry came before him, even into his ears. Then the earth shook and trembled; the...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
The sorrows of hell compassed me about,.... Or "the cords of the grave" (s), under the power of which he was detained for awhile; the allusion may be to the manner of burying among the Jews, who wound up their dead bodies in linen clothes; so that they were as persons bound hand and foot; and thus were they laid in the grave; see John 11:44; and...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
The sorrows of hell compassed me about: the snares of death prevented me. He could not stir a step without falling into a trap of some sort or other. What an awful picture this is! I can hardly imagine that the case could be painted in much blacker colors. None but God could help him, it is evident; for his sorrows were the sorrows of death. The...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
In my distress I called upon the Lord,.... The great Jehovah, the everlasting I AM, who is the most High in all the earth, and who is able to save, Hebrews 5:7; and cried unto my God; as Jesus did, Matthew 27:46; so the members of Christ, when in distress, as they often are, through sin and Satan, through the hidings of God's face, a variety of...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
In my distress I called upon the LORD, and cried unto my God: he heard my voice out of his temple, and my cry came before him, even into his ears. What a difference there is between this living God of David, — our living God, — and that impersonal nonentity which, nowadays, is regarded by many as God. The god of the pantheist, — what is he? A...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
In my distress I called upon the Lord, and cried unto my God: He puts together the two names, “Jehovah” and “my God.” He says that he called upon Jehovah, and he cried unto his God. He began with calling, and he went on to crying. The longer we pray, the more intense our prayer becomes. David prayed thus in his distress. Every way except one was...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
In my distress I called upon the LORD, and cried unto my God; he heard my voice out of his temple, and my cry came before him, even into his ears. That is a wonderful expression: “My cry came before him, even into his ears.” That is, of course, speaking after the manner of men, and we cannot speak in any other manner. God appeared to hear David’s...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Then the earth shook and trembled,.... As it did quickly after Christ called upon the Lord, and cried to his God upon the cross, Matthew 27:50; and so some time after, when his people were praying together, the place where they were assembled was shaken, Acts 4:31; as a token of God's presence being with them: and the shaking and trembling of the...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Then the earth shook and trembled; the foundations also of the hills moved and were shaken, because he was wroth. The cry of one of his oppressed children stirred him to anger. Nothing moves the heart of God like an injury done to his people. You remember how the prophet Zechariah wrote to the captive Jews in Babylon, “Thus saith the Lord of...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Then the earth shook and trembled; the foundations also of the hills moved and were shaken, because he was wroth. Nothing touches God’s heart like an injury done to a child of his. “He was wroth,” and he did but stamp his foot, and the solid earth began to rock and tremble. He who laid the foundations of the universe can soon shift its...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Then the earth shook and trembled; the foundations also of the hills moved and were shaken, because he was wroth. The Lord was wroth with those who had made his child cry, as a father is angry with one who injures a beloved child of his, or as a mother is wroth with one who puts her babe to pain. The Lord made the earth to tremble because he was...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
There went up a smoke out of his nostrils,.... This, with what follows, describes a storm of thunder; the "smoke" designs thick black clouds, gathered together; "fire" intends lightning; and "coals of fire", hot thunderbolts; and the whole is borrowed from, and is an allusion to what was at the giving of the law on Mount Sinai, Exodus 19:16; The...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
There went up a smoke out of his nostrils, and fire out of his mouth devoured: coals were kindled by it. He bowed the heavens also, and came down; and darkness was under his feet. In this wonderful poetic description, Jehovah is represented as descending from his throne at the cry of one of his children in distress.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
There went up a smoke out of his nostrils, and fire out of his mouth devoured: coals were kindled by it. Oriental imagery representing the indignation of the Most High. He is not subject to passions like ours, but he is thus described in order that we may understand his action. It is a high strain of poetry to teach us how God is moved by the...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
There went up a smoke out of his nostrils, and fire out of his mouth devoured: coals were kindled by it. That is David’s graphic and striking representation of the indignation of God on his behalf.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
There went up a smoke out of his nostrils and fire out of his mouth devoured: coals were kindled by it. This is a wonderful picture of the anger of God. The Hebrews always connected manifestations of anger with the nose and mouth just as they ascribed various passions and feelings to the different members of the body. So David says, “There went up...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
He bowed the heavens also, and came down,.... To execute wrath and vengeance on wicked men; which is always the sense of these phrases when they go together; see Psalms 144:6; The Targum is, "he bowed the heavens, and his glory appeared"; that is, the glory of his power, and of his mighty hand of vengeance; for not his grace and mercy, but his...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
He bowed the heavens also, and came down: and darkness was under his feet. And he rode upon a cherub, and did fly: yea, he did fly upon the wings of the wind. He trod on the arch of the sky, and bent it beneath his divine weight. The cherubim are represented as standing over the mercy-seat, as though waiting there to perform errands of mercy; and...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
He bowed the heavens also, and came down: and darkness was under his feet. This is a wonderful description of the interposition of God on behalf of his people. The scene referred to by David is probably the destruction of the Egyptians at the Red Sea, and the deliverance of the children of Israel from their cruel enemies.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
He bowed the heavens also, and came down: and darkness was under his feet. And he rode upon a cherub, and did fly: yea, he did fly upon the wings of the wind. So quick is God to come to the deliverance of his persecuted people.