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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, They were the nearest to him, and therefore could smite him the most keenly.
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
I was a reproach among all mine enemies,.... This is a common case of the people of God; and though it may be the least of their afflictions, yet it is not grateful to the flesh; and it is as it is made: under divine supports saints rejoice, and take pleasure in reproaches, that they are counted worthy to bear them, and esteem them as great...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I was a reproach among all mine enemies, They had found something to fling at him, and they were delighted to throw it with all their malicious force: “I was a reproach among all mine enemies,” — Psa_31:11. But especially among my neighbours, Those that are nearest can stab the sharpest. Those who knew David the best, endeavored to find some silly...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And a fear to mine acquaintance: They did not like to own him even as an acquaintance; they were afraid of him. Yet what a light this verse throws upon David’s previous declaration, “Thou has known my soul in adversities”!
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
I am forgotten as a dead man out of mind,.... Either by his friends, being out of sight, out of mind; as even the nearest relations and acquaintance are, in process of time, when dead, Ecclesiastes 9:5; or by the Lord; which shows the weakness of his faith, the uncomfortable frame he was in, through darkness and desertion; see Psalms 88:5; I am...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I am forgotten as a dead man out of mind: I am like a broken vessel. This was the same David who slew the Philistine giant; this was the great deliverer of his country; yet the people had forgotten all that. Earthly popularity is the most fleeting thing under heaven. The world is a hard and cruel master; it forgets its servants when they grow old,...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I am forgotten us a dead man out of mind: I am like a broken vessel. An old pot, flung on the dunghill, as of no further use.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I am forgotten as a dead man out of mind; The very man, in whose honour, in the former times, the women out of all the cities of Israel sang, “Saul hath slain his thousands, and David his ten thousands,” now had sorrowfully to say, ‘I am forgotten as a dead man out of mind.” Psa_31:12. I am like a broken vessel. “Men think me of no more value than...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
For I have heard the slander of many,.... Both enemies and neighbours; fear [was] on every side; his enemies were a "Magormissabib" to him, Jeremiah 20:3; encompassed him around, so that he was in fear from every quarter; while they took counsel together against me; how to apprehend him, and what to do with him; they devised to take away my life;...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For I have heard the slander of many: To have one slanderer attacking your character, is bad enough, but to have many such cruel enemies about you, to have a whole brood of hell’s hornets, as it were, stinging you, oh, what misery is this! You who, happily, have never experienced this torture, cannot imagine what agony it causes; I hope you never...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Fear was on every side: while they took counsel together against me, they devised to take away my life. But I trusted in thee, O LORD. Here he is back on the old rock, and rejoicing as his feet stand once more on this firm foundation: “I trusted in thee, O Jehovah.”
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For I have heard the slander of many: fear was on every side: awhile they took counsel together against me, they devised to take away my life. Bet I trusted in thee, O LORD: Now the strain will mount again. It is faith that tunes the royal singer, so that he rises to heights of joy though just now he had sunk so low.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For I have heard the slander of many: fear was on every side: The very best of men have had to smart under the wounds caused by that cruel, accursed thing slander. No quality of purity, no degree of piety, can screen a man from the tongue of slander; in fact, as the birds peck most at the ripest fruit, it is often the best of men who are most...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
While they took counsel together against me, they devised to take away my life. But I trusted in thee, O LORD: I said, Thou art my God. That is a grand utterance of the psalmist; now he is coming back to the point where he began; the Psalm is now in harmony with its keynote.
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
But I trusted in thee, O Lord,.... His faith revived again under all the discouraging views he had of things, and was exercised upon the Lord; he committed himself to him, believing he was able to help him in his time of trouble, and deliver him; I said, thou [art] my God; he claimed his covenant interest in him, and used it as an argument with...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
; Psa_31:16. I said, Thou art my God. My times are in thy hand: “My enemies cannot do anything against me without thy permission.” Divine providence is a downy pillow for an aching head, a blessed anodyne for the sharpest pain. He who can feel that his times are in the hand of God, need not tremble at anything that is in the hand of man.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I said; Thou art my God. My times are in thy hand: He had put his spirit there: “Into thine hand I commit my spirit;” and now he says, “My times are in thy hand.”
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
My times [are] in thy hand,.... And not in the hand of his enemies; as his time of life and death, which was only by the direction and appointment of God, was in his power, and fixed by him; nor could his enemies take away his life before his time, and without the will of his covenant God: the time of his coming to the throne, and what was gone...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Deliver me from the hand of mine enemies, and from them that persecute me. Make thy face to shine upon thy servant: save me for thy mercies’ sake. “If thy face shines upon me, Lord, they may look as black as they please. If thou wilt but deliver me, I care not how cruelly they persecute me. If thou wilt save me, who can destroy me?” O you who are...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Deliver me from the hand of mine enemies, and from them that persecute me. Make thy face to shine upon thy servant: save me for thy mercies’ sake. Let me not be ashamed, O LORD; for I have called upon thee: let the wicked be ashamed, and let them be silent in the grave. Let the lying lips be put to silence; which speak grievous things proudly and...