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Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And give ear unto my cry; hold not thy peace at my tears: “Do not see me weeping, and yet refuse me comfort and relief. Do not, I pray thee, hear my cry, and yet turn thy back upon me.” Psa_39:12. For I am a stranger with thee, Notice, not a stranger to thee, but, “a stranger with thee. Thou art a stranger in thine own world, and I also am a...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Hear my prayer, O LORD, David is dumb, yet he prays, dumb as to complaints, but eloquent as to pleading with his God. Psa_39:12. And give ear unto my cry; — The psalmist goes from pleading to crying, and believers often thus intensify their prayers. There is something more sorrowful, more earnest, more prevalent, about crying unto God than mere...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For I am a stranger with thee, and a sojourner, as all my fathers were. “I am not a stranger to thee, O my God! Blessed be thy holy name, I know thee well; but ‘I am a stranger with thee.’ Thou art a stranger in shine own world, and so am I. The world knows thee not, and the world knows me not; and when I act as thou actest, the world hateth me...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
O spare me,.... Or "look from me" (f); turn away thy fierce countenance from me; or "cease from me (g), and let me alone"; as in Job 10:20; from whence the words seem to be taken, by what follows: that I may recover strength; both corporeal and spiritual: before I go hence; out of this world by death: and be no more; that is, among men in the land...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
O spare me, — “Deal gently with me; do not break me in pieces. If thou must needs smite me, yet do not altogether crush me. O spare me,” — Psa_39:13. That I may recover strength, before I go hence, and be no more. “Let me be able to take a little nourishment, and to gather my faculties together yet again, that I may sing to thee some sweeter hymn...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
O spare me, that I may recover strength, before I go hence, and be no more. There is much sweet comfort here, though the Psalm reads like a dirge, rather than a hymn. God give us, if we are obliged to sing such words as these, to sing them with a full belief that the Lord will hear us, and will bless our trials to us, and make them work our...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
O spare me, — That is a singular petition, for just now, he seemed to be wanting to get to the end of his days; yet he says, “O spare me,” like Elias, who was afraid to die, and so ran away from Jezebel, and then prayed to God, “Let me die.” So are God’s children still a mass of contradictions, longing for death, and yet, when death comes, they...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
O spare me, that I may recover strength, before I go hence, and be no more.