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Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
O magnify the LORD with me, and let us exalt his name together. It is too grand a theme for one. One little heart can scarcely feel it all One feeble tongue cannot tell it out. Come, then, ye saints that know his name, magnify the Lord with me.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
O magnify the LORD with me, and let us exalt his name together. Come, my brethren and sisters, I cannot perform this happy service alone; it is too much for me all by myself. This bunch of grapes is too heavy to be carried by one. “O magnify the Lord with me, and let us exalt his name together.”
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
I sought the Lord, and he heard me,.... Not that he sought the Lord publicly in his house and ordinances, for he was now at Gath; but privately by prayer and supplication; and that not vocally, but mentally; for he was in the midst of the servants of the king of Gath; yet earnestly, diligently, and with his whole heart, being in great distress;...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I sought the LORD, and he heard me, and delivered me from all my fears. That was David’s testimony. That is mine. Brother, that is yours. Is it not? Sister, is not that yours too? Well, if you have such a blessed testimony, be sure to bear it. Often do you whisper it in the mourner’s ear, “I sought the Lord. and he heard me.” Tell it in the...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I sought the LORD, and he heard me, and delivered me from all my fears, It was a very poor way of seeking the Lord when he had got into the hand of the Philistines, and was planning in his own mind a disgraceful way of escaping from them. It was not that calm quiet calling upon God that one would have liked to see in David. Still, God heard him,...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I sought the LORD, and he heard me, and delivered me from all my fears. Blessed be his name for this. Are there not many of you, dear friends, who can bear the same testimony — personal proof of a prayer-hearing God? You tried him, for you sought him. You tried him, and you found him true, for he delivered you from all your fears.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I sought the LORD, and he heard me, and delivered me from all my fears. Should not the prayer-hearing God be praised? If he hears the cries of his people, should he not also hear the praises of his people? It is not one only to whom God has thus listened, but many can say with the psalmist, “I sought the Lord, and he heard me.”
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
They looked to him, and were lightened,.... That is, "the humble" ones, Psalms 34:2; and so this is a reason why they should join in praising and magnifying the Lord; these "looked" up to God in prayer and by faith, when in distressed and uncomfortable circumstances, for help and deliverance, and a supply of every needful good thing; and they were...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
They looked unto him, and were lightened: and their faces were not ashamed. And who were they? Why, all the people of God — the whole company of the saints in heaven, and the saints on earth. It can be said of them all, “They looked to him, and were lightened.” As there is life in a look, so is there light in a look. Oh! you that looked to Christ...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
They looked unto him. “All these people that have come at my call to join me in praising the Lord: “They looked unto him,” — Psa_34:5. And were lightened: and their faces were not ashamed. No, not one of them; if they looked to God, light shone from God upon their faces, and their faces glowed with the holy radiance, so they had no reason to be...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
They looked unto him, and were lightened: and their faces were not ashamed. “They looked unto him,” — a whole army of them, an innumerable company, — “They looked unto him and were lightened: and their faces were not ashamed.” There never was a face that was ashamed of being turned Christward and Godward.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
They looked unto him, and were lightened: and their faces were not ashamed. Only a look, and their burden was gone. Only a look! What great things hang on little things! Faith is but a look, yet it brings life, pardon, salvation. Heaven comes that way. Only a look!
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
They looked unto him, and were lightened: and their faces were not ashamed. This poor man cried, and the LORD heard him, and saved him out of all his troubles. It is God’s delight to hear the cry of poor men. Sometimes, he passes by the rich and great, and gives heed to the poor and desolate. It is our need that has the loudest cry with God; if...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
This poor man cried,.... Singling out some one person from among the humble, who was remarkably delivered; it is the common case of the people of God to be poor and afflicted, and in their afflictions they cry unto the Lord to be supported under them, and delivered out of them: or this may be understood of David himself, who was poor, not with...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
This poor man cried, and the LORD heard him, and saved him out of all his troubles. Who was he? He was a poor man — any poor man — nothing very particular about him, but he was poor — a poor man. What did he do? He cried. That was the style of praying he adopted — as a child cries — the natural expression of pain. Poor man, he did not know how to...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
This poor man cried, and the LORD heard him, and saved him out of all his troubles. The angel of the LORD encampeth round about them that fear him, and delivereth them. David’s deliverance had been so special that he could not help feeling that some special deliverer had been employed on his behalf; “the angel of the Lord” had been sent to his...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
This poor man cried, and the LORD heard him, and saved him out of all his troubles. Here David speaks of himself again, but he refers to himself in the third person: “This poor man cried, and the Lord heard him, and saved him out of all his troubles.”
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
This poor man cried, and the LORD heard him, and saved him out of all his troubles. The angel of the LORD encampeth round about them that fear him, and delivereth them. The angel of the Lord does not merely come to help his people, but he stays with them. He encampeth. He has pitched his tent, for he means to tarry. The guardians of God forsake...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
The angel of the Lord encampeth round about them that fear him,.... By whom may be meant, either the uncreated Angel, the Lord Jesus Christ, the Angel of God's presence, and of the covenant, the Captain of salvation, the Leader and Commander of the people; and whose salvation is as walls and bulwarks about them; or as an army surrounding them: or...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
The angel of the LORD encampeth round about them that fear him, and delivereth them. It is no wonder, then, that they are delivered, for the angels are always handy. They are waiting round about God’s people. Lo, they are not at a distance to fly swiftly and come for our rescue, but God has set a camp of angels round about all his people. Are we...