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Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
The eyes of the LORD are upon the righteous, and his ears are open unto their cry. The Lord is always watching them, and he is always listening that he may hear everything they say, especially when they cry unto him.
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
The face of the Lord [is] against them that do evil,.... Not against everyone that sins; for the righteous are not without sin; they have sin in them, and they do no good without it; but against them that live in sin, whose course of life is a series of wickedness, and they are workers of iniquity; and have no sense of sin, nor sorrow for it, go...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
The face of the LORD is against them that do evil, to cut off the remembrance of them from the earth. You know what we say sometimes. “I set my face against such a thing as that.” Now God sets his face against them that do evil. You will come to an end, my friend. Your happiness, like a bubble painted with rainbow colors, may be the object of...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
The face of the LORD is against them that do evil,- You know what we mean when we say, “I set my face against it.” So God sets his face against the wicked. Note how near both the righteous and the wicked are to an observing God. In the first case, his eyes are upon the righteous; in the second, his face “is against them that do evil,” — Psa_34:16....
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
The face of the LORD is against them that do evil, He sets his face against them, and this means that he is himself eternally opposed to all their wicked ways.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
To cut off the remembrance of them from the earth. The righteous cry, and the LORD heareth, and delivereth them out of all their troubles. Not only out of some of them, but out of all of them. It is often a very long “all.” The list of their troubles is often difficult to read through but in due time there comes a “finis” to it written by the hand...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
The face of the LORD is against them that do evil, Sets his face against them.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
To cut off the remembrance of them from the earth. The righteous cry, and the LORD heareth, and delivereth them out of all their troubles. Here is an explanation of the experience of the believer — first, prayer; then God’s bearing, and then deliverance. Who would not pray who has found prayer to be so effectual with God
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
The face of the LORD is against them that do evil, to cut off the remembrance of them from the earth. He will not only destroy the wicked, but he will blot out the very memory of them. They may become great and famous in their wickedness, but they shall not be kept in memory, as the righteous are. As Solomon says, “The name of the wicked shall...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
[The righteous] cry,.... The word "righteous" is not in the original text, but is rightly supplied in our version, as it is in the Targum, and by Jarchi; and so Kimchi and Ben Melech observe, that these words are not to be connected with Psalms 34:16, but with Psalms 34:15; and they are indeed an amplification of the last clause of it; and the cry...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
The righteous cry, and the LORD heareth, and delivereth them out of all their troubles. That is how we live, if you want to know. God makes us righteous, and then we cry. We often praise him. We desire to have our mouth full of it. But we cry as well, and whenever we cry God hears, and our troubles are removed.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
The righteous cry, and the LORD heareth, and delivereth them out of all their troubles. That is something to teach the children, teach them from your own experience, that God does hear and answer prayer; teach them to pray to God always, and to believe that prayer has real and beneficial results: “The Lord heareth, and delivereth them out of all...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
The righteous cry, and the LORD heareth, and delivereth them out of all their troubles. The LORD is nigh unto them that are of a broken heart; and saveth such as be of a contrite spirit. Men do not care for broken hearts, but God does. “Give me a sound heart and a brave heart,” says man. “Give me a broken and a contrite heart,” says the Lord. If...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
The Lord [is] nigh unto them that are of a broken heart,.... Who are pressed and bore down with afflictions, by the sorrow of heart under which their spirits are broken, Proverbs 15:13; or with a sense of sin, and sorrow for it, for which their hearts smite them, and they are wounded by it, and broken with it: to these the Lord is "nigh"; not in a...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
The LORD is nigh unto them that are of a broken heart; and saveth such as be of a contrite spirit. Are you here tonight, poor weeping Mary? Are you here, brokenhearted, troubled sinner? Are you here? Are you seeking the Lord? Do not seek him any longer. You have got him. Read the text, “The Lord is nigh unto them that are of a broken heart.” He is...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
The LORD is nigh unto them that are of a broken heart; and saveth such as be of a contrite spirit. We often hear of people who die of a broken heart; but here we read about people who live with a broken heart, and it is the best way of living too, with a heart that is broken for sin, and broken from sin, a heart that in every portion of it feels...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
The LORD is nigh unto them that are of a broken heart; and saveth such as be of a contrite spirit. Not your proud spirits, not your hectoring ones; but your lowly, penitent souls are the ones that are dear unto the heart of God, he is nigh unto them, and saveth them.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
The LORD is nigh unto them that are of a broken heart; and saveth such as be of a contrite spirit. Many are the afflictions of the righteous: but the LORD delivereth him out of them all. The first line seemed to have something terrible in it: “Many are the afflictions of the righteous”, but there is a blessed “but” that comes in —thrown like the...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Many [are] the afflictions of the righteous,.... This may be understood of some one particular righteous person, since the singular number is here made use of; whereas the plural is always used before, when the righteous are made mention of; and the Lord Jesus Christ may be designed, who is eminently and emphatically "the righteous"; he is...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Many are the afflictions of the righteous: You should hear some of them talk, and you would soon know that; for I know some of the righteous that seldom talk of anything else. “Oh! the badness of trade!” They have been losing money — oh! ever since I knew them. They had not any when they started, but they have gone on losing money every year; and...