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Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Deliver me from all my transgressions: We had not expected David to offer that prayer, we might have thought that he would say, “Deliver me from all my troubles, and from my many vexing thoughts.” But no, he lays the axe at the root of the evil: “Deliver me from all my transgressions.” There is only One who can do that, even the glorious Son of...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Deliver me from all my transgressions: When he gets near to God, he sees himself to be a sinner.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Make me not the reproach of the foolish. I was dumb, I opened not my mouth; because thou didst it. That is fine silence when a man will not complain because his affliction comes from the hand of God. There is something better even than that when a man breaks the silence, and begins to praise God under the rod. A mute Christian smarting under the...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Deliver me from all my transgressions: That is a better prayer than if David had said, “Deliver me from all my sorrows.” Now he has hit the very center of the target: “Deliver me from all my transgressions.” So let each one of us pray at this moment, “O Lord, I do not ask to be saved from thy rod, but I do ask to be washed from my sin. Do what...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Deliver me from all my transgressions: make me not the reproach of the foolish. I was dumb, I opened not my mouth; because thou didst it. It is always a blessed reason for resignation when we can say of any bereavement or affliction, “The Lord has done it.” Shall he not do as he wills with his own? Then let us say, with Job, “The Lord gave, and...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
I was dumb, I opened not my mouth,.... This refers either to his former silence, before he broke it, Psalms 39:1, or to what he after that came into again, when he had seen the folly of his impatience, the frailty of his life, the vanity of man, and all human affairs, and had been directed to place his hope and confidence in the Lord, Psalms 39:5;...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I was dumb, I opened not my mouth, because thou didst it. This verse should read, “I will be dumb, I will not open my mouth, because thou hast done it.” That is a better silence than the first, for the psalmist is getting into a right state. This is the proper silence, the other was brazen, this is golden. God help us to know how and when to...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I was dumb, I opened not my mouth; because thou didst it. You will understand this verse much better if we read it in another tense as it should be: “Now I will be dumb, I will not open my mouth, because thou didst it.” David was wrong the first time when he was dumb, but he is right this second time. Two things may be very like one another...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Remove thy stroke away from me,.... The psalmist still considers his affliction as coming from the hand of God, as his stroke upon him, and which lay as a heavy burden on him, and which God only could remove; and to him he applies for the removal of it, who is to be sought unto by his people to do such things for them; nor is such an application...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Remove thy stroke away from me: Having come to complete submission, he ventures to pray for deliverance from his sorrow. You may pray very boldly, and very freely, when you can truly say, “Thy will be done.” David had said that he would not open his mouth against his God, and now he begins to plead, “Remove thy stroke away from me.” Psa_39:10. I...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Remove thy stroke away from me: I am consumed by the blow of thine hand. When God smites, he never plays at chastisement, and there are times when his blows are very heavy, and then the smitten one cries out, “Remove thy stroke away from me: I am consumed by the blow of thine hand.”
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Remove thy stroke away from me: The child of God, who is perfectly resigned to his heavenly Father’s will may yet pray to be delivered from his trouble. Prayer for deliverance from grief is quite consistent with perfect submission to the will of God. We may pray, for Jesus prayed, “O my Father, if it be possible, let this cup pass from me;” but we...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Remove thy stroke away from me: I am consumed by the blow of thine hand. When thou with rebukes dost correct man for iniquity, thou makest his beauty to consume away like a moth: surely every man is vanity. Selah. Hear my prayer, O Lord, and give ear unto my cry; hold not thy peace at my tears: Tears have ever had great prevalence with God. Christ...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
When thou with rebukes dost correct man for iniquity,.... The psalmist illustrates his own case, before suggested, by the common case and condition of men, when God corrects them; which he has a right to do, as the Father of spirits, and which he does with rebukes; sometimes with rebukes of wrath, with furious rebukes, rebukes in flames of fire,...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
When thou with rebukes dost correct man for iniquity, thou makest his beauty to consume away like a moth: As a moth eats up the fur or the cloth, and spoils it, so, when God’s corrections come upon us, our beauty is soon gone. Poor beauty it must be that can so soon go. Lord, let thy beauty be upon us, for no moth can ever eat into that!...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
When thou with rebukes dost correct man for iniquity, thou makest his beauty to consume away like a moth: Stout, he is reduced to a shadow, comely and beautiful he is wrinkled, and looks like a skeleton, joyful and blithe, he ends his day in mourning. Ah, dear friends, we who have joy, and calm, and peace, ought to be very grateful! Praise God...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Surely every man is vanity. Selah. Hear my prayer, O LORD, “If I cannot do anything else, I can pray, and I will pray.” That is the best relief that mourners have: “Hear my prayer, O Lord.”
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
When thou with rebukes dost correct man for iniquity, thou makest his beauty to consume away like a moth: surely every man is vanity. Selah. When God whips his children, he does not play with them. God is in earnest, if we are not; and when he corrects us, he means us to feel his rod, and he means us to bear the scars it leaves upon us. There must...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Hear my prayer, O Lord,.... Which was, that he would remove the affliction from him that lay so hard and heavy upon him; and give ear unto my cry; which shows the distress he was in, and the vehemency with which he put up his petition to the Lord; hold not thy peace at my tears; which were shed in great plenty, through the violence of the...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Hear my prayer, O LORD, and give ear unto my cry; See how David’s “prayer” grows into a “cry.” It deepens in intensity; there is more power in a cry than in an ordinary prayer, it shows more earnestness, and implies greater urgency: “Hear my prayer, O Lord, and give ear unto my cry.” Psa_39:12. Hold not thy peace at my tears: That is a still more...