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Psalms 31:15-16

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: Oh, for the shinings of God’s face! How blessed and glorious they are! I is heaven on earth to dwell within the circle of that light; and if we get out of the range of those rays, what joy can we have?

Psalms 31:16

John Gill - Exposition - John Gill

Make thy face to shine upon thy servant,.... In which he prays for the gracious presence of God, the manifestations of himself unto him, the discoveries of his love, the enjoyment of him in Christ, communion with him, the comforts of his Spirit, and joys of his salvation; see Numbers 6:25; save me for thy mercies' sake; not for any merit and...

Psalms 31:17

John Gill - Exposition - John Gill

Let me not be ashamed, O Lord,.... The same petition as in Psalms 31:1; for I have called upon thee; who is nigh unto all that call upon him in truth, and is rich unto them, and has promised to help and save them; which should he not do, not only he would be made ashamed, but the promise of God would seem to fail: for the psalmist does not plead...

Psalms 31:17

Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon

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. There is something of the harshness of the old dispensation about that prayer; so we will turn it into a prophecy, and say, “The wicked shall be ashamed; they shall be silent in the grave.”

Psalms 31:17

Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon

—19. 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 contemptuously against the righteous. Oh, how great is thy goodness, which thou hast laid up for them that fear thee; Then, be off good...

Psalms 31:18

John Gill - Exposition - John Gill

Let the lying lips be put to silence,.... Being convicted of the lies told by them, and so silenced and confounded; or being cut off and destroyed, as all such will be in the Lord's own time, Psalms 12:3. It is very likely the psalmist may have respect either to Doeg the Edomite, who loved lying rather than righteousness; or to others that were...

Psalms 31:18-19

Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon

Let the lying lips be put to silence, which speak grievous things proudly and contemptuously against the righteous. Oh how great is thy goodness which thou hast laid up for them that fear thee; Is not that a blessed expression to be used by the man who said that his life was spent with grief, and his years with sighing?

Psalms 31:19

John Gill - Exposition - John Gill

[O] how great [is] thy goodness,.... Not the natural and essential goodness of God; for though that is large and abundant, yea, infinite, as every perfection of his is, yet it cannot with propriety be said to be laid up and wrought out; but rather the effects of his goodness, and not those which appear in Providence, for they, though very large...

Psalms 31:19

Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon

Which thou hast wrought for them that trust in thee before the sons of men! Not only has the Lord abundant goodness stored up for his children, but his goodness is brought out for others to see, and for his people to feed upon even in the presence of their enemies.

Psalms 31:19-20

Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon

Which thou hast wrought for them that trust in thee before the sons of men! Thou shalt hide them in the secret of thy presence from the pride of man: thou shalt keep them secretly in a pavilion from the strife of tongues. What a blessing that is,— to be separated from the noise and strife and the malignant calumny of wicked men! God has a blessed...

Psalms 31:20

John Gill - Exposition - John Gill

Thou shall hide them in the secret of thy presence,.... That is, those that fear the Lord and trust in him; and therefore they are called his "hidden ones", Psalms 83:3; these the Lord preserves in times of trouble and danger, and when his indignation is out against others; and so the Targum is, "in the time of thine anger"; see Isaiah 26:20; the...

Psalms 31:20

Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon

Thou shalt hide them in the secret of thy presence from the pride of man: thou shalt keep them secretly in a pavilion from the strife of tongues. They shall not be wounded by all the malice of their adversaries; they shall be preserved in the King’s royal pavilion.

Psalms 31:20

Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon

Thou shalt hide them in the secret of thy presence from the pride of man: thou shalt keep them secretly in a pavilion from the strife of tongues. There is nothing much worse than the strife of tongues. A pack of wolves would not be half so bad as a pack of tongues let loose upon a man. Wolves do but tear the flesh; but tongues devour a man’s...

Psalms 31:21

John Gill - Exposition - John Gill

Blessed [be] the Lord,.... A form of thanksgiving, in which the psalmist calls upon himself and others to bless and praise the Lord for the singular mercy granted him, expressed in the next clause; [See comments on Psalms 18:46]; for he hath showed me his marvellous kindness in a strong city; either in the city Keilah, so Jarchi; a city which had...

Psalms 31:21-23

Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon

Blessed be the LORD: for he hath shewed me his marvellous kindness in a strong city. For I said in my haste, I am cut off from before thine eyes: nevertheless thou heardest the voice of my supplications when I cried unto thee. O love the LORD, all ye his saints: See what a fount of happiness there is in the psalmist’s heart; he longs for all the...

Psalms 31:21-22

Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon

Blessed be the LORD: for hath shewed me his marvellous kindness in a strong city. For I said in my haste, I am cut off from before thine eyes: nevertheless thou heardest the voice of my supplications when I cried unto thee. “If we believe not, yet he abideth faithful: he cannot deny himself.” The psalmist was full of doubts, and he said, “I am cut...

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