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Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
As we have heard, so have we seen in the city of the LORD of hosts, in the city of our God: God will establish it for ever. Selah. We have thought of thy lovingkindness, O God, in the midst of thy temple. According to thy name, O God, so is thy praise unto the ends of the earth: thy right hand is full of righteousness. Let mount Zion rejoice, let...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
As we have heard, so have we seen in the city of the LORD of host, in the city of our God: God will establish it for ever. Selah. Well might there be a pause here for solemn consideration, for putting the harp strings right, and lifting up the heart to the Lord in praise.
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
We have thought of thy lovingkindness, O God,.... Jarchi interprets it, "we have waited for thy lovingkindness"; to see thy salvation; and some, as Ben Melech observes, explain it of hope and expectation; as if the sense was, "we have hoped for thy lovingkindness"; so the Syriac version renders it, and the word used has the signification of...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
We have thought of thy lovingkindness, O God, in the midst of thy temple.” Here is a blessed subject, “thy lovingkindness, O God;” — a blessed people, we who have enjoyed it; — a blessed occupation, “we have thought of thy lovingkindness,” — and a blessed place in which to do it, “in the midst of thy temple.” When we are in the midst of the Lord’s...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
According to thy name, O God, so [is] thy praise unto the ends of the earth,.... That is, as he himself is in the perfections of his nature, which are displayed in the works of his bands, throughout the whole creation; so is or ought his praise to be: or rather, as in the latter day his name will be great in all the earth, Malachi 1:11; so will...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
According to thy name, O God, so is thy praise unto the ends of the earth: As is God’s name, so is his fame; unto the very ends of the earth shall men hear the praises of the Lord, especially when he delivers his people. Psa_48:10. Thy right hand is full of righteousness. God’s right hand is never empty: “thy right hand is full;” and when he comes...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Let Mount Zion rejoice,.... The church in general; see Psalms 48:1; let the daughters of Judah be glad; particular churches; and so the Targum renders it, "the congregations of the house of Judah"; or particular believers; such as are called the daughters of Jerusalem, and the daughters of Zion, So 3:10; these are exhorted to joy and gladness, at...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Let mount Zion rejoice, let the daughters of Judah be glad, because of thy judgments. That is, the smaller cities of Judah, let them sing, as well as Jerusalem, the high praises of their delivering God. Perhaps it refers to the women who, in times of war, have to suffer most and worst of all; let them be loudest in their joyous music; as Miriam...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Walk about Zion, and go round about her,.... These words are either an address to the enemies of the church, sarcastically delivered; calling upon them to come, and surround, and besiege Zion, and see what the issue and consequence of it will he, even the same as that of the kings, Psalms 48:4; or to the builders of Zion, as Jarchi observes, to...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Walk about Zion, and go round about her: tell the towers thereof. Mark ye well her bulwarks, consider her palaces; that ye may tell it to the generation following. Sunday-school teachers, note the security of the Church of God, mark the eternal truth on which she is founded, the everlasting promises by which she is guarded, the forts and bastions...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Mark ye well her bulwarks,.... Such as the free favour of God in Christ; which is not only as a shield, but as a bulwark to the church; his everlasting love, electing grace, the covenant of grace, with its blessings and promises, all which are more immovable than rocks and mountains; and especially the power of God, which surrounds his church, as...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
For this God [is] our God for ever and ever,.... Who is spoken of throughout the whole psalm as greatly to be praised, as well as is known in Zion, as the stability, security, and protection of her. This is said as pointing unto him as if visible, as Christ is God manifest in the flesh, now in Gospel times, to which this psalm belongs; as...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For this God is our God for ever and ever: he will be our guide even unto death. But the Hebrew is better still: “He will be our guide even over death.” We shall trample down death; or, as one puts it, we shall stand by the grave of death. What a glorious place for us to stand in when death itself is dead through the ever-living Christ, and the...