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John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Thou tellest my wanderings,.... Not his sins; though these are aberrations or wanderings from the ways of God's commandments; yet these are not told by the Lord: he takes no account of them; the number of them is not kept by him; they are blotted out, cast behind his back, and into the depths of the sea; though sometimes his people think they are...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Put thou my tears into thy bottle:- This is thought by some to have been an allusion to an old Roman custom of catching the tears of the friends of the dying in a lachrymatory, or small bottle, and then burying them in their tomb. I see no reason to believe that David meant anything so absurd. There is probably a very much better meaning than that...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Thou tellest my wanderings: put thou my tears into thy bottle: are they not in thy book? David was such a wanderer at that time that he might not remember all the places where he had hidden away from Saul, but God had a record of them, and even of his tears: “are they not in thy book?” There is nothing that concerns the Lord’s chosen people that...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
When I cry [unto thee],.... In prayer; then shall mine enemies turn back; great is the strength of prayer; the effectual fervent prayer of the righteous avails much against their enemies: when Moses lifted up his hands, Israel prevailed: the cases of Asa, Jehoshaphat, and Hezekiah, prove it; this David was assured of, and knew it to be true by...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
When I cry unto thee, then shall mine enemies turn back: “When I cry, they shall fly, So swift is prayer to reach the ear and heart of God, and so kind is God to me.”
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
This I know; for God is for me. In God will I praise his word: in the LORD will I praise his word. In God have I put my trust: I will not be afraid what man can do unto me. Thy vows are upon me, O God: “I am bound to praise thee, I am bound to love thee, and I will, come what may.”
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
When I cry unto thee, then shall mine enemies turn back: this I know; for God is for me. David’s confidence in God was not misplaced, he who can truthfully say, “God is for me,” need not fear however many may be against him.
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
In God will I praise [his] word,.... These words are repeated from Psalms 56:4; and for the greater certainty of the thing, and to show his fixed resolution to do it, and his strong affection for the Lord and his word, they are doubled; in the Lord will I praise [his] word: in the former clause the word "Elohim" is made use of, which, the Jews...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
In God will I praise his word: in the LORD will I praise his word. In God have I put my trust: I will not be afraid what man can do unto me. He repeats the declarations he made in verse 4; such holy confidence may rightly be published again and again. It is most pleasing and honouring to the Lord, and it is most likely to lead other tried...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
In God have I put my trust,.... [See comments on Psalms 56:4]; I will not be afraid what man can do unto me; the same with flesh in Psalms 56:4, and is opposed to God, in whom he trusted; and it suggests that he was not, and would not, be afraid of the greatest of men, as well as of the meanest; [See comments on Psalms 56:4]; Arama distinguishes...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Thy vows [are] upon me, O God,.... Which he had made to him in the time of his distress and trouble, and which he looked upon himself under obligation to perform; they were debts upon him he ought to pay off; they were with him; they were fresh in his mind and memory; he had not forgot them, which is often the case when trouble is over; and he...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I will render praises unto thee. For thou hast delivered my soul from death: wilt not thou deliver my feet from falling, that I may walk before God in the light of the living? This exposition consisted of readings from Psalms 56, 57.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Thy vows are upon me, O God I will render praises unto thee. David had not forgotten the vows that he had made unto the Lord. Vows should not be lightly made; but, once made, they should be sacredly remembered, and faithfully performed.
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
For thou hast delivered my soul from death,.... From imminent danger of death, when in the hands of the Philistines; not that the soul can die; that is immortal; but he means his person, on which account he determines to render praise to God: moreover, this may include the deliverance of his soul from a moral or spiritual death, in which he was by...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For thou hast delivered my soul from death: wilt not thou deliver my feet from falling, that I may walk before God in the light of the living? So the Psalm ends, as it began, with prayer, a prayer that was most graciously answered, as we can see if we turn to Psa_116:8-9 : “Thou hast delivered my soul from death, mine eyes from tears, and my feet...