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Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Leave me not, neither forsake me, O God of my salvation. When my father and my mother forsake me, then the LORD will take me up. There is a poor child, and his father and mother have both gone away and left him; but the Divine Father comes along, picks the child up, and clasps him to his bosom: “Then the Lord will take me up.” It is a wonderful...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Hide not thy face far from me; put not thy servant away in anger: David has a jealous fear lest he should have provoked the Lord to hide himself from him, so he prays as one who is dependent upon his Heavenly Father’s smile, and cannot live without it. “Put not thy servant away in anger.” Psa_27:9. Thou hast been my help; leave me not, neither...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Hide not thy face far from me; put not thy servant away in anger: The sharpest trial a Christian can know is to be forsaken of his God. As the very pith of the agony of Christ upon the gross lay in his being deserted by his Father, so the extremity of a believer’s anguish is found when he also has to cry, “My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Hide not thy face far from me; put not thy servant away in anger: “Dismiss me not thy service, Lord.” You know how masters do sometimes discharge their servants in anger; but what a gracious Master you and I have, beloved, or else he would have sent us adrift long ago! “Get you gone,” he would have said, “you disgrace my house, you mar my work,...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Thou, hast been my help y leave me not, neither forsake me, O God of my salvation. When my father and my mother forsake we, then the LORD will take me up... “They carried me when I was a child, and he will carry me now: ‘The Lord will take me up.’ When they steel their hearts against me, because I become a Christian, he will love me, and more than...
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. When my father and my mother forsake me, then the LORD will take me up. He prayed, you see, and it looked a little unbelieving when he said, “Leave me not, neither forsake me.” But it was not so, for at...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
When my father and my mother forsake me,.... Which is not to be understood strictly and literally of his parents, that were in that near relation to him according to the flesh, nor of anything that had past; not of his parents leaving him to shift for himself, after having brought him up; nor of his father being unmindful of him, when Samuel came...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
When my father and my mother forsake me, then the Lord will take me up. “My father and my mother are the last to forsake me; they were the first to love me, and they will be the last to leave me, but if they do leave me, then Jehovah will take me up, and he will be both father and mother to me.” Just as it was said to Naomi concerning Ruth, “Thy...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
When my father and my mother forsake me, then the LORD will take me up. “The Lord never will forsake me. Though I pray, ‘Leave me not,’ I know that he will not. Father and mother retain love for their child when that child has lost every earthly friend; but, Lord, if nature should change, and mothers should turn to monsters, still, when my father...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
When my father and my mother forsake me, They are not likely to do that; yet, if they should do so, what then?
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Then the LORD will take me up. Teach me thy way, O LORD, and lead me in a plain path, because of mine enemies. This is a prayer which all Christians have good need to pray, for there are so many enemies who will, if they can, cause us to stumble, so many who watch for our halting, that we need to pray, “Lead me in a plain path, because of mine...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Teach me thy way, O Lord,.... Of providence, grace, and duty; [See comments on Psalms 25:4]; and lead me in a plain path: as the path of truth is to those that understand and find knowledge; and as the way of holiness is, even to such who in other things are fools, but shall not err therein, Proverbs 8:9 Isaiah 35:8; or the path of righteousness,...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
‘Teach me thy way, O LORD, and lead me in a plain path, because of mine enemies. “Make it clear what I ought to do; make it so clear that I shall do it. Let me not try to excuse myself, but may my way be so plainly upright and true that even my enemies cannot say anything against me! ‘Lead me in a plain path, because of mine enemies.’”
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Teach me thy way, O LORD, “I am only a child; teach me, Lord. I am fatherless and motherless; take me into thine orphanage, and teach me thy way, O Lord!” Psa_27:11. And lead me in a plain path, because of mine enemies. “Make my way to he very straightforward! May my life be such that I never have to apologize for it! May there be no places in it...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Teach me thy way, O LORD, This is a sweetly practical prayer. Our heart often says, “Lord, let me have my own way;” but when grace has done its work, it talks in another fashion, “’Teach me thy way, O Lord.’ Only let me know what thou wouldst have me be, and do, and feel, and I submit myself to thee, joyfully. But, Lord, I am so weak that, even if...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Teach me thy way, O LORD, and lead me in a plain path, because of mine enemies. “Lord, do not let me get into difficulties, so that I shM1 not know what to do, for my foes are so sharp-eyed that, if they can find a fault in me, they will; and even if there be no fault, they will make one. Therefore, Lord, ‘lead me in a plain path, because of mine...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Teach me thy way, O LORD, and lead me in a plain path, because of mine enemies. Deliver me not over unto the will of mine enemies: for false witnesses are risen up against me, and such as breathe out cruelty. I had fainted, unless I had believed to see the goodness of the LORD in the land of the living. Wait on the LORD: be of good courage, and he...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Deliver me not over unto the will of mine enemies,.... It is a dreadful thing for a man to be given up to his own heart's lusts, and to be delivered up into the hands of Satan; who would fain have even the people of God themselves in his hands, that he might distress them at pleasure, if not destroy them; and also to be suffered to fall into the...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Deliver me not over unto the will of mine enemies: for false witnesses are risen up against me, and such as breathe out cruelty. “Cruelty is their very breath. Lord, save me from their cruelty!”
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Deliver me not over unto the will of mine enemies: for false witnesses are risen up against me, and such as breathe out cruelty. I had fainted, unless I had believed to see the goodness of the LORD in the land of the living. Men say that” seeing is believing,” but that is not true; but believing is seeing. So David says, “I had fainted, unless I...