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Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And now shall mine head be lifted up above mine enemies round about me .’ therefore will I offer in his tabernacle sacrifices of joy; I will sing, yea, I will sing praises unto the LORD. David always comes back to his God; nay, he does not go away from him. Trusting him, praising him, adoring him, — this is the very life of this Psalm, as it ought...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
He shall set me up upon a rock. What perfect security the child of God has; first, in the pavilion of sovereignty; next, in the secrecy of sacrifice; and thirdly, on the rock of immutability! “He shall set me up upon a rock.” Psa_27:6. And now shall mine head be lifted up above mine enemies round about me: therefore will I offer in his tabernacle...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And now shall mine head be lifted up above mine enemies round about me: “They may surround me, and threaten me, but they cannot hurt me, for I am living with my God, abiding like a child in my Father’s house.”
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Therefore will I offer in his tabernacle sacrifices of joy; I will sing, yea, I will sing praises unto the LORD. Hear, O LORD, when I cry with my voice: He has not done praising before he begins to pray. We are scarcely out of one trouble before we enter into another. This is what keeps Christian people alive, because, escaping from one trial,...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
“And now shall mine head be lifted up above mine enemies round about me: therefore will I offer in his tabernacle sacrifices of joy: I will sing, yea, I will sing praises unto the LORD. As David’s trust was in his Lord, all his praise was to his Lord; and where we place our confidence, there let us also display our gratitude. If we trust in men,...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And now shall mine head be lifted up above mine enemies round about me: therefore will I offer in his tabernacle sacrifices of joy; I will sing, yea, I will sing praises unto the LORD. This is a blessed resolution; oh, that you and I would carry it out more and more! David says twice that he will sing the Lord’s praises: “I will sing, yea, I will...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Hear, O Lord, [when] I cry with my voice,.... Which is to be understood of prayer, and that in the time of distress; and of vocal prayer, as distinguished from mental prayer; and the phrase denotes the vehemency and intenseness of it: and the request is, that the Lord would hear it; not only as he is omniscient and omnipresent, and so hears the...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Hear, O LORD, when I cry with my voice- have mercy also upon me, and answer me. One moment he praises, and the next moment he prays. That is quite right. I have often said to you that we live by breathing in and breathing out; we breathe in the atmosphere of heaven by prayer, and we breathe it out again by praise. Prayer and praise make up the...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Hear, O LORD, when I cry with my voice: have mercy also upon me, and answer me. I thought you were going to sing, David; but you are at prayer, I see. This is how we live spiritually; we breathe in the air by prayer, and we breathe it out by praise; this is the holy respiration of a Christian’s life. Prayer and praise must be mingled in a divinely...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Have mercy also upon me, and answer me. When thou saidst, Seek ye my face; my heart said unto thee, Thy face, LORD, will I seek. “So I answered thee when thou didst speak. Now answer me, O Lord, when I speak to thee.” It sometimes happens that God speaks to us, and we make no reply to him, and for that reason he refuses to hear us when we speak to...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Hear, O LORD, When I cry with my voice: have mercy also upon me, and answer me. When thou saidst, Seek ye my face; my heart said unto thee Thy face, Lord, will I seek. Happy is the man who has a tender conscience, — whose heart is like the waves of the sea, which are easily moved by the breath of heaven; — so that, when God breathes upon him by...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Hear, O LORD, when I cry with my voice I have mercy also upon me, and answer me. The psalmist has only just begun praising when he takes to praying; and that should be a Christian’s double occupation, — praising and praying. I have often said that, as our life is made up of breathing in and breathing out, so we should breathe in the atmosphere of...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Hear, O LORD. when I cry with my voice: have mercy also upon me, and answer me. When thou saidst, Seek ye my face; my heart said unto thee, Thy face, LORD will I seek. Are we always mindful of divine monitions? When the still small voice in the heart says, “Seek ye my face,” brothers and sisters, do we always at once respond and say, “Thy face,...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
[When thou saidst], seek ye my face,.... To seek the face of the Lord is to attend his house and ordinances, where he grants his presence; and with this view to enjoy his gracious presence, and the light of his countenance, not being content with bare attendance without it; it is to seek the Lord himself, and communion with him through Christ, the...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
When thou saidst, Seek ye my face; my heart said unto thee, Thy face, Lord, will I seek. As if it were an echo, “Thy face, Lord, will I seek.” And he did seek it, and seek it at once. But, oh! there are many who have long been called to seek God’s face, who have never obeyed the summons; are you among that number? If so, the Lord have mercy upon...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
When thou saidst, Seek ye my face; my heart said unto thee, Thy face, LORD, will I seek. The child of God knows his Father’s voice, and responds to it. God’s Word is like a seal, and we should be like the wax, ready to take the impress of it. “Seek ye my face.” “Thy face, Lord, will I seek.” It is the same expression reversed, just as it is when...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
When thou saidst, Seek ye my face; my heart said unto thee, Thy face, LORD, will I seek. David springs forward to accept the divine invitation; the invitation was general: “Seek ye my face;” but the response was personal: “Thy face, Lord, will I seek.” Whether others would do so, or not, David resolved and declared that he would seek the face of...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Hide not thy face [far] from me,.... Yea, not at all from him; for the word "far" is not in the text: this is sometimes the case of the best of men, and was of the psalmist at times, and might be now, notwithstanding his strong expressions of faith and joy in the preceding verses; for frames are very changeable things; and this case is consistent...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Hide not thy face far from me; put not thy servant away in anger: thou hast been my help; leave me not, neither forsake me, O God of my salvation. This is grand praying on the part of David; he pleads the past as a reason for mercy in the present: “Thou hast been my help; leave me not, neither forsake me, O God of my salvation.” It is a very bad...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Hide not thy face far from me; I do not know why the translators put in that word “far.” It is printed in Italics, but it should not be there at all. “Hide not thy face from me at all, my Lord. I do not ask thee not to hide it far from me, but I pray thee not to hide it at all. Make no break in my sunlight. Let me always see thee; this is all I...