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John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
INTRODUCTION TO Psalms 27 [A Psalm] of David. The Septuagint interpreters add to this title, "before he was anointed". David was anointed three times, first when a youth in his father's house; but this psalm could not be written before that time, because he had not had then any experience of war, nor could be in any immediate apprehension of it,...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
The Lord [is] my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear?.... The Targum in the king of Spain's Bible explains it, "the Word of the Lord is my light"; and so Ainsworth cites it; that is, Christ the eternal Word, in whom "was life, and that life was the light of men", John 1:4; and the psalmist is not to be understood of the light of nature and...
Matthew Henry - Complete Commentary - Matthew Henry
Some think David penned this psalm before his coming to the throne, when he was in the midst of his troubles, and perhaps upon occasion of the death of his parents; but the Jews think he penned it when he was old, upon occasion of the wonderful deliverance he had from the sword of the giant, when Abishai succoured him (2 Sam. xxi. 16, 17) and his...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
The LORD is my tight and my salvation; whom shall I fear? If a man has a light that can never go out, — a sun which will never set, —and a salvation which must always save, — and God is all that and more to everyone who trusts him, — then what ground has he for fear Psa_27:1. The Lord is the strength of my life; of whom shall I be afraid? If I...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
The LORD is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear? If all your light comes from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning, you need not be afraid of losing your light. “The Lord is my light and my salvation.” If your salvation comes from the God of salvation, if it is wrought out by the Saviour, our Lord...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
The LORD is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear? the LORD is the strength of my life; of whom shall I be afraid? A sort of trembling seems to have been creeping over him, so he argues thus with his own heart, “Why should I be dismayed? Am I afraid of coming darkness? ‘The Lord is my light.’ Do dangers surround me? The Lord is my...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
The LORD is my light and my salvation, whom shall I fear? The LORD is the strength of my life; of whom shall I be afraid? David leaves the broken cisterns of the earth, which can hold no water, and goes directly to the divine fountain-head. He does not say, “Ahithophel is my light, Uzzia, the Ashterathite, is my friend and my joy; but he says,...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
The Lord is my light and my salvation; First comes light, and then salvation. We are not saved in ignorance; the knowledge of our sinfulness is revealed to us, we discover our true condition in the sight of God, and then we perceive the mercy and the love of God. We see first the light and then the fullness of salvation, for this is not a matter...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
The LORD is my light and my salvation; I find no comfort anywhere else but in him, and expect salvation from none but himself. “The Lord is my light and my salvation.” Psa_27:1. Whom shall I fear! the LORD is the strength of my life; of whom shall I be afraid! Who can stand against him? What strength can resist his strength? What darkness can...
Spurgeon - Treasury of David - Charles H. Spurgeon
Ver. 1. The Lord is my light and my salvation. Here is personal interest, "my light, ""my salvation; "the soul is assured of it, and therefore, declaring it boldly. "My light; " —into the soul at the new birth divine light is poured as the precursor of salvation; where there is not enough light to see our own darkness and to long for the Lord...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
When the wicked, [even] mine enemies and my foes, came upon me,.... They are wicked men, men of malignant spirits, and evildoers, who are the enemies and foes of the people of God, and who hate them with an implacable hatred, and do everything they can to distress and afflict them; and such enemies David had, who were many and mighty; and these...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
When the wicked, even mine enemies and my foes, came upon me to eat up my flesh, they stumbled and fell. They were both wicked in character, and fierce in disposition, for they had resolved to eat him right up, as wild beasts might have done. They were successful as far as they were permitted to go, for he says, “They came upon me.” Yet he needed...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
When the wicked, even mine enemies and my foes, came upon me to eat up my flesh, they stumbled and fell. This is the record of the psalmist’s past experience. David was a soldier, and he had a soldier’s dangers and a soldier’s deliverance’s; and here he writes the history of his battles. These are dispatches from the field. When the psalmist’s...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
When the wicked, even mine enemies and my foes, came upon me to eat up my flesh, they stumbled and fell. “They were very fierce. Like cannibals, they meant to eat me right up. They would not have spared me. They ‘came upon me’ in such a fashion that I was taken at a disadvantage. I seemed to be altogether in their power, but ‘they stumbled and...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
When the wicked, even mine enemies and my foes, came upon me to eat up my flesh, they stumbled and fell. If we are on the Lord’s side, discomfiture of our enemies shall be total and final; they shall fall to the ground. They may be very many, and very varied, so as to be described under two names, — enemies and foes; they may be very ferocious, so...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
When the wicked, even mine enemies and my foes, came upon me to eat up my flesh, they stumbled and fell. Good men have enemies because they are good men. There are two classes in the world, — the righteous and the wicked, — the seed of the woman and the seed of the serpent; and you know that, even in Eden, the Lord said to the serpent, “I will put...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
When the wicked, even mine enemies and my foes, came upon me to eat up my flesh, they stumbled and fell. “They wanted to destroy me altogether — to eat me right up.” If they did not destroy me, it was not from want of heart to do it, nor even from want of power, for there were many of them. But I had not to fight, for they fell before they reached...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Though an host should encamp against me,.... An host of the ungodly, as the Targum; though ever so many of them, even ten thousands of them, as in Psalms 3:6; should beset him on every side; my heart shall not fear; for not only the angels of the Lord encamped about him, as they do about all that fear the Lord; but salvation was appointed for...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Though an host should encamp against me, my heart shall not fear; — It is then that we mostly do fear, before the fight begins when the enemy lies encamped against us. We do not know how strong is the foe, nor what mischief he is going to do to us, and the uncertainty often brings a dread with it; yet, says the psalmist, “though an host should...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Though an host should encamp against me, my heart shall not fear: though war should rise against me, in this will I be confident. The past gives him confidence both for the present and for the future. Happy is the man who can fall back upon his past experience, not to make of it a bed to lie upon, but to make of it a lever with which to lift his...