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Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Thou hast redeemed me, O LORD God of truth, I have hated them that regard lying vanities: but I trust in the LORD. Men are sure to have some kind of trust or other on which they rely. In David’s day, some trusted to false gods, others relied upon their own strength; the psalmist does not speak in soft tones concerning these people, but he says, “I...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Into thine hand I commit my spirit: thou hast redeemed me, O LORD God of truth. This is a blessed prayer,— a holy resolution, which we may use every day in the week all through our lives.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Into thine hand I commit my spirit: The dying words of Jesus may well be the living words of each one of his redeemed people. We ought continually to commit our spirit into our great Father’s hands, for there is no other place that can be so safe and blessed as between the strong, almighty, never-failing hands of the eternal God. Psa_31:5. Thou...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
I have hated them that regard lying vanities,.... Soothsaying and divination, as Aben Ezra and others think; made use of by kings, and generals of armies, to know when it was proper to go out to war, and what success they should have; see Ezekiel 21:21; but such men and their practices David abhorred; he took no such methods when in distress, but...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I have hated them that regard lying vanities: but I trust in the LORD. “In Jehovah.” David had no patience with those who trusted in gods of wood and stone; he knew very little indeed of that spurious charity which leads some men to speak respectfully even of idolatry. David was “a good hater”; and there is something gracious about that when the...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I have hated them that regard lying vanities: That is, those that trusted in their idol gods, which he calls by this contemptuous name, “lying vanities.” David was not very respectful to false religions; he called them vanities and lies, and said, “I have hated them that regard them;”
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
But I trust in the LORD. I will be glad and rejoice in thy mercy: for thou hast considered my trouble; thou hast known my soul in adversities; “ ‘Thou hast considered my trouble;’ — thou hast looked at it, weighed it, understood it.” When a wise man gives his consideration to a thing, we respect his judgment; but what shall we say of the...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
I will be glad, and rejoice in thy mercy,.... Both because of the nature of it, which is large and abundant, free and sovereign, from everlasting to everlasting, and is communicated in and through Christ, and is a good ground of hope and trust; and because of the effects of it, or what it has produced; for to it are owing the covenant of grace,...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I will be glad and rejoice in thy mercy: What a grand faith! Should there not sometimes be the sounding of the cymbals even in the midst of our supplications? Though we must often put on sackcloth, yet we must lift up our song of praise whenever we can: “’I will be glad and rejoice,’ — there shall be a reduplication of my delight, — ‘I will be...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I will be glad and rejoice in thy mercy: David makes the cymbals clash together: “I will be glad and rejoice in thy mercy: “ Psa_31:7. For thou hast considered my trouble; thou hast known my soul in adversities; It is said to be the highest wisdom to know yourself; but, to my mind, it is a much better thing for God to know you. You may know...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
And hast not shut me up into the hand of the enemy,.... When in Keilah, in the wilderness of Ziph, and Maon, and encompassed about by Saul and his army, 1 Samuel 23:7; nor does the Lord suffer his people to be shut up under the power of sin and Satan, so that they cannot come forth in the exercise of grace, and the discharge of duty: but he brings...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And hast not shut me up into the hand of the enemy: “No; I may get into the enemy’s prison, but there is no bar to it. ‘Thou hast not shut me up.’ I may seem to get into my enemy’s hand; but he cannot shut that hand.” Truly, it must be so, because David had already put his soul into the hand of God: “Into thine hand I commit my spirit.” How, then,...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And hast not shut me up into the hand of the enemy: thou hast set my feet in a large room. “Thou hast given me a broad place to live in, and thou hast given me abundance to eat there.” So David praises and blesses his God; but now see how the note falls. From the highest point of the scale he suddenly descends to the very lowest. “We spend our...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And hast not shut me up into the hand of the enemy: thou hast set my feet in a large room. Have mercy upon me, O LORD, for I am in trouble: mine eye is consumed with grief, yea, my soul and my belly. For my life is spent with grief, and my years with sighing: That is better than spending our years in sinning; yet it is a painful experience when...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Have mercy upon me, O Lord, for I am in trouble,.... A sudden change of case and frame this! and so it is with the people of God; as soon as, out of one trouble, they are in another; these are what are appointed for them, and lie in their pathway to heaven, and are necessary; and under them it is quite right to betake themselves to the Lord, who...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Have mercy upon me, O LORD, for I am in trouble: In this short sentence of four words, — “I am in trouble,” — David gives the text of which the next few verses are a kind of sermon, with divisions and subdivisions. Psa_31:9. Mine eye is consumed with grief, “My eyes seem burnt up with scalding tears.” The salt of our tears wears out the very...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Have mercy upon me, O LORD, for I am in trouble: mine eye is consumed with grief, yea, my soul and my belly. For my life is spent with grief, and my years with sighing: Sighing is better than sinning any day. Though we may deplore that our life melts away in sighs, it is better that it should go so than that it should be wasted in sins.
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
For my life is spent with grief, and my years with sighing,.... Which shows the continuance of his troubles, and that his whole life had been, as it were, an uninterrupted series of sorrows; my strength faileth because of mine iniquity; this opens the source and spring of all his grief and trouble; his sin, and the sin of his nature, in which he...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For my life is spent with grief, and my years with sighing: Better spend them in sighing than in sinning; yet it is a sad case when we seem to measure our days by the bars of our grief. Psa_31:10. My strength faileth because of mine iniquity, and my bones are consumed. Now he sees to the bottom of his sorrow: “My strength faileth because of mine...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
My strength faileth because of mine iniquity, and my bones are consumed. I was a reproach among all mine enemies, but especially among my neighbours, and a fear to mine acquaintance: they that did see me without fled from me. He was in such a sorry plight that men would not own him. They were afraid that they should be disgraced by being found in...