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Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Blessed is the man unto whom the LORD imputeth not iniquity, and in whose spirit there is no guile. For, when sin is gone, men become honest before God. The fear of punishment makes them endeavor to evade the truth concerning sin; but, when they see sin pardoned, then are they honest before the Lord.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Blessed is the man unto whom the LORD imputeth not iniquity, and in whose spirit there is no guile He has no need to dissemble now, for his sin is forgiven. David had tried to tamper with his conscience after his great sin. He invented all sorts of excuses and schemes, to try to hide his guilt, but when, at last, he was fully convinced of the...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
When I kept silence,.... Was unthoughtful of sin, unconcerned about it, and made no acknowledgment and confession of it to God, being quite senseless and stupid; the Targum adds, "from the words of the law"; which seems to point at sin as the cause of what follows; my bones waxed old; through my roaring all the day long; not under a sense of sin,...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
When I kept silence, my bones waxed old through my roaring all the day long. For day and night thy hand was heavy upon me: my moisture is turned into the drought of summer. Selah. I understand this to have been the feeling of David after his great sin, before he confessed it. He tried to excuse it to his conscience. It has been thought by some...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
When I kept silence, my bones waxed old through my roaring all the day long. Sin was in his heart but he would not confess it. He was silent before God in hardness of heart; and then his sorrow grew worse and worse, till not only his flesh began to fail, but his bones — the most solid part of his frame, began to grow old, too. He felt like a man...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
When I kept silence, my bones waxed old through my roaring all the day long. For day and night thy hand was heavy upon me: my moisture is turned into the drought of summer. Selah. He tells us that he had such a sense of guilt that he could not rest; and until he made confession of his sin to God, he became sick in body as well as in soul. It...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
When I kept silence, my bones waxed old through my roaring all the day long. For day and night thy hand was heavy upon me: my moisture is turned into the drought of summer. Selah. While under a sense of sin, David could not pray; or his prayer, if he did offer one at all, turned into a kind of roaring, like the cry of a wounded beast. He was so...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
When I kept silence, my bones waxed old through my roaring all the day long. A wanton glance, the sin with Bathsheba, where was the pleasure of it when it cost him all this? Such groaning that his very bones got old as if they were rotten, and his heart was heavy as if he wished to die.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
When I kept silence, my bones waxed old through my roaring all the day long. For day and night thy hand was heavy upon me: my moisture is turned into the drought of summer. Selah. This is the experience of those men whom God saves. Till they confess sin, that sin rankles in them like venom; it boils their blood, it eats into their bones, it makes...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
When I kept silence, my bones waxed old through my roaring all the day long. I have heard that certain diseases, when they are suppressed, are all the more terrible and deadly; and, certainly, suppressed sin, or suppressed sorrow for sin, which has no vent by way of confession before God, is a dreadful thing. It seems to eat into the very bones:...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
When I kept silence, my bones waxed old through my roaring all the day long. For day and night thy hand was heavy upon me: my moisture is turned into the drought of summer. Selah. As if he was parched and scorched with inward grief. The agony of his soul kept him from sleeping, prevented him from taking his necessary food, and made him seem like a...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
When I kept silence, my bones waxed old through my roaring all the day long. A wanton glance, and the sin with Bathsheba. Where was the pleasure of it when it cost him all this? Such groaning that his very bones get old as if they were rotten, and his heart was heavy as if he wished to die. “For day and night thy hand was heavy upon me.” God was...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
For day and night thy hand was heavy upon me,.... Meaning the afflicting hand of God, which is not joyous, but grievous, and heavy to be borne; especially without his gracious presence, and the discoveries of his love: this continued night and day, without any intermission; and may design some violent distemper; perhaps a fever; since it follows,...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For day and night thy hand was heavy upon me: my moisture is turned into the drought of summer. Selah. When a man gets God’s hand on him, I warrant, you that he will want no other burden. This hand of God goes with him wherever he goes, it is like his own shadow. Whenever you meet with persons who are self-righteous, you may pray God to lay his...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For day and night thy hand was heavy upon me. God was with his hand pressing him heavily, forging his sin home upon him, making him say, My sin is ever before me.” Oh! the misery of sinning to a child of God. Do not dream that we can ever have any pleasure in sin; the worldling may, but the believer never can. ‘To him it is a deadly viper that...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For day and night thy hand was heavy upon me: The mere touch of God’s finger would be enough to crush us, but when he comes to deal with us in conviction, and lays his heavy hand upon us, it is indeed terrible. We are then like Gideon’s fleece when he squeezed all the moisture out of it.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
My moisture is turned into the drought of summer. Selah. I acknowledged my sin unto thee, and mine iniquity have I not hid. I said, I will confess my transgressions unto the LORD; and thou forgavest the iniquity of my sin. Selah. Being confessed, it was forgiven; being acknowledged, it was blotted out.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For day and night thy hand was heavy upon me: my moisture is turned into the drought of summer. Selah. When he tried to pray, it was a dried-up prayer; he tried to make a psalm, but it was a dried-up song; he tried to do some good, for he was still a good man, but it was all withered without the Spirit of God. His moisture was gone out of him,...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
I acknowledged my sin unto thee,.... The sin of Adam, in which he was concerned; original sin, the corruption of his nature, the sin that dwelt in him, his private and secret sins, which none knew but God and himself; even all his sins, which were many, with all their aggravated circumstances; wherefore he uses various words to express them by, in...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I acknowledged my sin unto thee, and mine iniquity have I not hid. I said, I will confess my transgressions unto the LORD; and thou forgavest the iniquity of my sin. Selah. Oh, how swift is the divine compassion! Quick upon the heels of confession came that word from Nathan, “The Lord also hath put away thy sin; thou shalt not die.” I can fancy...