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John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
My heart is fixed, O God,.... Firm and sure, trusting in the Lord, believing that he should be saved by him out of his troubles; see Psalms 101:1. So, in a spiritual sense, a heart fixed and established, or that is firm and sure, is one that is assured of its salvation by Christ, rooted and grounded in the love of God, firmly built on the...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
My heart is fixed, O God, my heart is fixed: I will sing and give praise. That is enough for me, I will not stop my singing for all my adversaries. Let them howl like lions, I will sing on. Let them dig their pits, I will sing on. I find this my best employment, to keep on praising my God. “All that remains for me, Is but to love and sing, And...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
My heart is fixed, O God, my heart is fixed: I will sing and give praise. Let the lions open their cruel mouths, and roar, and let wicked men, “whose teeth are spears and arrows, and their tongue a sharp sword, do their worst against me; let my every footstep be among the nets and pits that they have set and dug to catch me; even in the midst of...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Awake up, my glory,.... Meaning his soul, whom Jacob calls his honour, Genesis 49:6; it being the most honourable, glorious, and excellent part of man; is the breath of God, of his immediate production; is a spirit incorporeal and immortal; is possessed of glorious powers and faculties; had the image of God stamped upon it, which made man the...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Awake up, my glory; awake, psaltery and harp: I myself will awake early. My tongue, the glory of my frame, be not thou silent! Bestir thyself! “I myself will awake early,” or, “I will awake the dawning.” I will call the sun up to be shining; I will bid him wake to shine to the honour of my Lord. With the earliest birds I will make one more singer...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Awake up, my glory; awake, psaltery and harp: I myself will awake early. “I will awake the dawn,” — so the Hebrew has it; — “I will wake up the morning and chide it for being so long in opening its eyes to look upon God’s works. David did this, notwithstanding all the trials of his surrounding circumstances. He calls on his “glory” — perhaps he...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
I will praise thee, O Lord, among the people,.... Either among the people of Israel, as Aben Ezra, when each of the tribes meet together; and so it denotes the public manner in which he would praise God for his salvation: or among the Gentiles, as the following clause shows; I will sing unto thee among the nations: the Apostle Paul seems to have...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I will praise thee, O Lord, among the people: I will sing unto thee among the nations. I will make the Gentiles hear it. They that know not the Lord shall be astonished when they hear me praising him, and they shall ask, “Who is this God of whom this man makes so much?”
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I will praise thee, O lord, among the people: I will sing unto the among the nations. For thy mercy is great unto the heavens, and thy truth unto the clouds. Be thou exalted, O God, above the heavens: let thy glory be above all the earth. Have not some of you found God’s mercy to be “great unto the heavens”? It even seemed to reach above the...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
For thy mercy [is] great unto the heavens,.... Which denotes the exceeding greatness and largeness of it; as it is in the heart of God, who is plenteous in mercy; as it is expressed in the covenant of grace, where are stores of it; as it is shown forth in the choice of persons to eternal life; in the mission of Christ into this world to die for...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For thy mercy is great unto the heavens, and thy truth unto the clouds. Be thou exulted, O God, above the heavens: let thy glory be above all the earth. God give us that same calm praiseful frame of mind that David possessed if we are called to endure such trials as fell to his lot!
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Be thou exalted, O God, above the heavens,.... As Christ now is at the Father's right hand, and who is God over all, blessed for ever; [let] thy glory [be] above all the earth; as it is above all the men on earth and angels in heaven. This is repeated from Psalms 57:5; [See comments on Psalms 57:5], and shows the vehemency of his desire after...