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John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
For the King trusteth in the Lord,.... That is, the King Messiah, as the Targum paraphrases it; he trusted in the Lord for his support and sustenance as man, for assistance and help in his time of trouble, and for deliverance out of it; he trusted in the Lord that he would hear him for himself, and for his people; and that he would glorify him...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For the king trusteth in the LORD, and through the mercy of the most High he shall not be moved. Thine hand shall find out all thine enemies: Oh, what a wonderful prophecy that is! Christ’s hand shall find out all his enemies. If they hide themselves, he shall discover them. If they cover themselves with chain armor, yet still his hand will find...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Thine hand shall find out all thine enemies,.... The Jews, that would not have him to reign over them, who crucified him and persecuted his apostles; the Gentiles, who were also concerned in his death; the Roman emperors, who persecuted the Christians, and are signified by the red dragon that waited to devour the man child when brought forth by...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Thy right hand shall find out those that hate thee. Thou shalt make them as a fiery oven in the time of thine anger: the LORD shell swallow them up in his wrath, and the fire shall devour them. Their fruit shalt thou destroy from the earth, and their seed from among the children, of men. For they intended evil against thee: they imagined a...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Thy right hand shall fall out those that hate thee. “Hide wherever they may, thou wilt find them out. They may stand in the high places, and defy thee; but thou wilt hurl them down.”
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Thou shalt make them as a fiery oven,.... Some think the allusion is to David's causing the Ammonites to pass through the brick kiln, 2 Samuel 12:31; others to the burning of Sodom and Gomorrah: it represents what a severe punishment shall be inflicted on the enemies of Christ; they shall be cast into a fiery oven, or furnace of fire, as Shadrach,...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Thou shalt make them as a fiery oven in the time of thine anger: “Not only shall they be cast into the fire, but they shall themselves be as a fiery oven in the time of thine anger. They shall torment themselves, and shall be their own destruction.”
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
The LORD shall swallow them up in his wrath, and the fire shall devour them. Their fruit shalt thou destroy from the earth, and their seed from among the children of men. For they intended evil against thee: they imagined a mischievous device, which they are not able to perform. But that did not diminish their sin. When a man has devised an evil...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Their fruit shall thou destroy from the earth,.... Meaning the offspring of wicked men; the fruit of the womb, Psalms 127:3; the same with their seed in the next clause: and their seed from among the children of men; see Psalms 37:28; which must be understood of such of their seed, and offspring as are as they were when born; are never renewed and...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
For they intended evil against thee,.... All evil, whether in thought or deed, if not immediately and directly, yet is ultimately against the Lord, whose law is transgressed, and who is despised and reflected upon as a lawgiver; all sin is an hostility committed against God, or against Christ, against the Lord and his Anointed, or against his...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Therefore shall thou make them turn their back,.... Or flee and run away to private places, to hide themselves from the wrath of God and of the Lamb, though to no purpose; or "make them turn [behind thy] back": God will turn his back upon them, and be negligent and careless of them, and not regard them when they cry in their misery and...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Therefore shalt thou make them turn their back, when thou shalt make ready thine arrows upon thy strings against the face of them. As if God would single out the enemies of Christ to be targets for his arrows, and fill them with the darts of his displeasure; who would wish to be in such a plight as this?
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Be thou exalted, Lord, in thine own strength,.... Exert thy strength, display thy power in such manner, that thou mayest be exalted and magnified on account of it. This was fulfilled at the destruction of Jerusalem, when the kingdom of God came with power, Mr 9:1; and will be again when Babylon shall be utterly destroyed, because the Lord is...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Be thou exalted, LORD, in thine own strength: so will we sing and praise thy power This exposition consisted of readings from PSALMS 20. and 21.