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Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And the measure of my days, what it is; that I may know how frail I am. Behold, thou hast made my days as an handbreadth; That is, the breadth of your four fingers; all the length of life is to he measured by a span.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Lord, make me to know mine end, It is greatly wise for us to be familiar with our last hours. There is much to be discovered in the shroud, the mattock, and the spade. Psa_39:4. And the measure of my days, what it is; that I may know how frail I am. A bubble is more substantial than I am, — a little handful of dust, easily blown to the wind,...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
LORD, — That was a good beginning of David’s speech. When we turn our burning words towards God, and not towards men, good will come of them. David’s hot heart finds a vent Godward. This was the wisest thing that he could do, cry unto his God. “Lord,” — Psa_39:4. Make me to know mine end, — Did David mean to pray, “Let me die,” like Elias did? I...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
LORD, make me to know mine end, That is what you and I are apt to say when we get into a little trouble; we want to die, and get away from it all. We say that we long to be with Christ, but I am afraid that it is often only a lazy wish to share the spoils of victory without fighting the battle, to receive the saints’ wages without doing the...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Behold, thou hast made my days [as] an handbreadth,.... These words, with the following clause, are the psalmist's answer to his own inquiries; or rather a correction of his inquiry and impatience, showing how needless it was to ask such questions, and be impatient to die, when it was so clear and certain a case that life was so short; not a yard...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And mine age is as nothing before thee: All that exists is as nothing before God. What are even the elder-born of angels but the infants of an hour in contrast with the ages of eternity? The world itself is only like a bubble blown yesterday, the sun is as a spark struck from the anvil of omnipotence but a few days ago; and as for man, compared...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Behold thou hast made my days as an handbreadth; How short is our life! It is just a span, and no more, Psa_39:5. And mine age is as nothing before thee: What multitudes of generations of men have come and gone! An angel might have cried, long before, “Man is but a thing of yesterday compared with the eternal God.” God created the first star that...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Behold, thou hast made my days as an handbreadth; — That is a very short measure, the breadth of a hand, the space that we can span with one of our hands, yet that is the true measure of our life: “Thou hast made my days as an handbreadth;” — Psa_39:5. And mine age is as nothing before thee: — What are seventy or eighty years, even if we live so...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Behold, thou hast made my days as, an handbreadth; This is a very common measure, the breadth of the human hand; and David says that this span is the measure of his life. Some here must surely have spent a great part of that handbreadth; let them and all of us be prepared to meet our God when that short span’s limit is reached. Psa_39:5. And mine...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Surely every man walketh in a vain show,.... Or "in an image" (z); not "in the image of the Lord", as the Targum; in the image in which God created man, for that is lost; nor in that which is stamped on men in regeneration; for every man does not walk in that; rather in the image of fallen man, in which every man is born and walks: or "in a...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Surely every man walketh in a vain show: Like players, or actors, all of us are walking in a phantom show; which is not really anything, but only seems to be. Psa_39:6. Surely they are disquieted in vain: They make a dreadful noise in the tumult of the battle, the din of the exchange, the hum of the streets, the fret and worry of the...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Surely every man walketh in a vain show: He is a shadow walking among shadows. Psa_39:6. Surely they are disquieted in vain: They fret and fume about nothing. Psa_39:6. He heapeth up riches, and knoweth not who shall gather them. He is busy with a rake, but another will be busy with a fork. What the miser gathers the spendthrift scatters.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Surely every man walketh in a vain shew: This world is a mere theater, and men strut across its stage, acting their various parts. They come and they go as if they were mere figures moved by invisible wires; the most of men do not live at all, but only seem to live for they have not the true, spiritual, eternal life within them. Every man walks...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Surely every man walketh in a vain shew: surely they are disquieted in vain: They fret, and fume, and flurry, and worry, and all about what? About nothing. We sometimes say, “It will be all the same a hundred years hence.” Ah! but it will be all the same much sooner than that, when the six feet of earth shall be all our heritage. Psa_39:6. He...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
And now, Lord, what wait I for?.... Look for, or expect, in this view of things? not long life, since the days of man are so short, and his age as nothing; not help from man, since he is altogether vanity; not riches and honour, since they are such poor, fading, perishing things; but the glories of another world, and the enjoyment of the Lord...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And now, Lord, what wait I for? my hope is in thee. There is no vanity in that declaration. Now we are on the rock, now we have come to something real. When a man trusts in the unchanging God, and hopes in the ever-blessed Saviour, he has come out of his state of vanity: “My hope is in thee.”
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And now, Lord, what wait I for? “Do I wait to gather riches for another to squander? Do I wait to worry myself? Do I wait here to walk as a vanity in the midst of vanities? No, Lord, I am waiting for something better than that!” Psa_39:7. My hope is in thee. Here the psalmist steps off the sand, and puts his foot on the rock. Happy is the man who...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And now, Lord, what wait I for? The psalmist improves as he advances. Now you see that he is cut loose from the world. He has seen the vanity of man, and he has seen the vanity of wealth, so he says, “’Now, Lord, what wait I for? What is there here, in this land of shadows, that I should wait for? Why sit I down where nothing good has ever come,...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And now, Lord,- If all earthly things are nothing but emptiness,- Psa_39:7.What wait I for? “I wait for nothing here, for there is nothing here to wait for.” Psa_39:7. My hope is in thee. Ah! this hope makes life worth living. Now that we hope in God, now that we know that there remaineth another and a better world than this world of shadows, life...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Deliver me from all my transgressions,.... Which were the cause and occasion of all his distresses, inward and outward; and the deliverance prayed for includes a freedom from the dominion of sin, which is by the power of efficacious grace; and from the guilt of sin, which is by the application of the blood of Christ; and from obligation to...