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Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For innumerable evils have compassed me about: mine iniquities have taken hold upon me, so that I am not able to look up; they are more than the hairs of mine head: therefore my heart faileth me. Now here is a passage in which the Master is not to be seen but only the servant. This is the man that said than God had put a new song into his mouth....
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Mine iniquities have taken hold upon me, so that I am not able to look up; they are more than the hairs of mine head: therefore my heart faileth me. We could not apply this language to the Saviour except as we spoke of the sins of ourselves and others which were laid upon him; but we may apply this language, and ought to apply it to ourselves when...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For innumerable evils have compassed me about: mine iniquities have taken hold upon me, so that I am not able to look up; they are more than the hairs of mine head: therefore my heart faileth me. If that is the condition of any one whom I am addressing, be comforted by the remembrance that another has been along that dark road where you now are...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Be pleased, O Lord, to deliver me,.... From the innumerable evils which compassed him about; from sinful men, and from devils, signified by the sword, dog, and lion, Psalms 22:20; and from the power and dominion of death and the grave; all which was done when he was raised from the dead, and as the fruit and effect of God's well pleasedness in...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Be pleased, O LORD, to deliver me: O LORD, make haste to help me. You may pray like that and yet be a true believer, the man that is not in haste to be saved does not want to be saved at all. He that can put it off till tomorrow knows nothing about it. True believer when he is crying for mercy cries “My case is urgent, help me now, make haste to...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Be pleased, O LORD, to deliver me: O LORD, make haste to help me. Let them be ashamed and confounded together that seek after my soul to destroy it; let them be driven backward and put to shame that wish me evil. Let them be desolate for a reward of their shame that say unto me, Aha, aha. So will it surely be, for the enemies of God’s people are...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Be pleased, O Lord, to deliver me: O Lord, make haste to help me. Thus did David cry unto the Lord “out of the depths.” Imitate his example if you are in similar circumstances. Say, with good John Ryland,— “Out of the depths of doubt and fear, Depths of despair and grief, I cry; my voice, O Jesus, hear, And come to my relief!” 14—16. Let them be...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Let them be ashamed and confounded together,.... As they will be at the last day, when they shall see him whom they have pierced come in the clouds of heaven, in his own and his Father's glory, and in the glory of the holy angels; that seek after my soul to destroy it; that is, his life, as did Herod in his infancy, and the Scribes and Pharisees,...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Let them be ashamed and confounded together that seek after my soul to destroy it; let them be driven backward and put to shame that wish me evil. Let them be desolate for a reward of their shame that say unto me, “Aha, aha.” Let all those that seek thee rejoice and be glad in thee: let such as love thy salvation say continually, The LORD be...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Let them be desolate for a reward of their shame,.... Of their shameful wishes, words, and actions, as they were: their habitations in Jerusalem were desolate, and so was their house or temple there, and their whole land, and they themselves were stripped of everything, when Jerusalem was taken and destroyed; see Matthew 23:38 Acts 1:20; that say...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Let all those that seek thee,.... In the first place, with their whole hearts, earnestly and diligently, in Christ, and under the influences of his Spirit, for pardon, righteousness, communion, larger measures of grace, and for honour, glory, immortality, and eternal life; rejoice and be glad in thee: as their covenant God, the Father of their...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Let all those that seek thee rejoice and be glad in thee: let such as love thy salvation say continually, The LORD be magnified. Are you content to bear your present trial, dear friend, so that God may be magnified? Are you willing to be reduced, by infirmities and weaknesses, to a condition of absolute nothingness, so long as God is exalted? If...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Let such as love thy salvation say continually, The LORD be magnified. But I am poor and needy; yet the Lord thinketh upon me: thou art my help and my deliverer; make no tarrying, O my God. The Lord bless to us the reading of this precious portion of his Word, for his name’s sake! Amen.
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
But I [am] poor and needy,.... As Christ was literally, 2 Corinthians 8:9; and in a spiritual sense, when deserted by his Father, forsaken by his disciples, and surrounded by his enemies; and had the sins of his people, the curse of the law, and the wrath of God upon him; [yet] the Lord thinketh upon me; thinketh good for me, as the Targum; or...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
But I am poor and needy; A double expression for a poverty that is doubly felt; — perhaps, poor in temporals; certainly poor in spirituals; poor, and full of needs, yet with nothing to supply those needs: “I am poor and needy;” Psa_40:17. Yet — That is a blessed “yet” — Psa_40:17. The Lord thinketh upon me: That is enough for me; if he thinks upon...