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John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
The statutes of the Lord [are] right,.... The word of God may be called "statutes", or "visitations" (d) because that God will visit, in a way of resentment, such persons as despise its authority, do not act according to it, or add unto it, or detract from it; or the word may be rendered "commissions" (e), things committed to trust, as the...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
The statutes of the LORD are right, rejoicing the heart: You know they do. Oftentimes has your heart leaped for joy when the statutes of the Lord have been made known to you.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
The commandment of the LORD is pure, enlightening the eyes. The fear of the LORD is clean, enduring for ever: the judgments of the LORD are true and righteous altogether. More to be desired are they than gold, yea, than much fine gold: sweeter also than honey and the honeycomb. Moreover by them is thy servant warned: Do you not find it so, — that,...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
The fear of the Lord [is] clean,.... Still the word of God is intended, which teaches men to fear the Lord; gives a full account of the worship of God, which is often meant by the fear of God; it instructs in the matter and manner of worship; and nothing more powerfully engages to serve the Lord with reverence and godly fear than the Gospel does:...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
More to be desired [are they] than gold,.... This refers to all the truths in the word of God; to all the doctrines of the Gospel; which, by good men, are more desirable, and by them more prized and valued, than all worldly riches and treasure; yea, than much fine gold: more than gold, and the best of gold, and a great deal of it, than thousands...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
More to be desired are they than gold, yea, than much fine gold: Or, the very best gold. No riches can so enrich the mind and heart as the Word of God does. A man may have tons of gold, and yet be utterly miserable; but he who is pure in heart, he who hath God’s Word and the love of it in his heart, is truly rich, however poor he may be in...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Moreover, by them is thy servant warned,.... By whom the psalmist means himself, who was the servant of the Lord, not only in common with other saints, but as he was a king and prophet, and as such he received advantage from the word of God; all his instructions as a prophet, and all his rules of government as a king; and the whole of that wisdom,...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Moreover by them is thy servant warned: and in keeping of them there is great reward. Who can understand his errors. While David is speaking of the Book that has no errors in it, he is reminded of his own errors; and they strike him as being so many that he cannot understand them. Every sin is really an error, a mistake, a blunder, as well as...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And in keeping of them there is great reward. Not, for keeping of them, for it is not of debt; but, “in keeping of them.” It is always best to do as God bids you. You never forget a duty, or refuse to do it, without suffering loss, and every mistake you make, with regard to your Lord’s will, is a damage to yourselves. The keeping of his commands...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Who can understand [his] errors?.... Sin is an error, a wandering out of the way of God, swerving from the rule of his word; and many mistakes are made by the people of God themselves; even so many that they cannot number them; they are more than the hairs of their head; they cannot understand, find out and express, neither their number, nor their...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Cleanse thou me from secret faults. “Cleanse me from the faults which I cannot see, and which no mortal man has ever seen. Thou, Lord, seest them; be pleased, therefore, to cleanse me from them.” This view of the omniscience of God is very comforting to the believer; because he perceives that, even if he cannot see his sin, so as to own it, and...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Who can understand his errors? cleanse thou me from secret faults. The man who searches his heart most will yet leave some sin undiscovered; and he who says, “I have no sin; I am living without sin,” has surely never seen into his own heart at all, he must be an utter stranger to the condition it is in. Let this be the prayer of each one of us:...
Spurgeon - Treasury of David - Charles H. Spurgeon
Verse 12. Who can understand his errors? A question which is its own answer. It rather requires a note of exclamation than of interrogation. By the law is the knowledge of sin, and in the presence of divine truth, the psalmist marvels at the number and heinousness of his sins. He best knows himself who best knows the Word, but even such an one...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Keep back thy servant also from presumptuous [sins],.... Some understand these words of persons: the Septuagint, and the versions that follow that, render it "from strangers": such who are strangers to God and godliness; that is, keep from all conversation with them in things sinful, or from others' sins; from having a fellowship with them, being...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Keep back thy servant also from presumptuous sins;- If we indulge in secret sins, we may gradually slide down an inclined plane until we come to presumptuous sins, sins committed willfully, sins known to be sins, daring. God-defying sins. Lord, keep me back from such sins as these! If others urge me to advance in this wrong direction, O Lord, do...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Keep back thy servant also from presumptuous sins; “Let me never dare to do what I know to be wrong. Let me not say, ‘I will go just so far, and then stop.’ Let me not tempt the Holy Spirit of God. Oh, let me never tempt the devil to tempt me, and put myself into a dangerous position under the notion that God will keep me if I am his child: ‘keep...
Spurgeon - Treasury of David - Charles H. Spurgeon
Verse 13. Keep back thy servant also from presumptuous sins; let them not have dominion over me. This earnest and humble prayer teaches us that saints may fall into the worst of sins unless restrained by grace, and that therefore they must watch and pray lest they enter into temptation. There is a natural proneness to sin in the best of men, and...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Let the words of my mouth,.... Meaning either his speech in common conversation, which should not be filthy and foolish, rotten and corrupt; but such as ministers grace to the hearer: or else his address to God, both in prayer and thanksgiving; and the meditation of my heart; his inward thoughts continually revolving in his mind; or his meditation...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Let the words of my mouth, and the meditation of my heart, be acceptable in thy sight, O LORD, my strength, and my redeemer. David does not hope to be accepted till he has first of all been pardoned; but when the Lord has forgiven him, and sanctified him, then he comes with both mouth and heart to serve his God; and his prayer is that he may be...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Let the words of my mouth, and the meditation of my heart, be acceptable in thy sight; O LORD, my strength, and my redeemer.