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John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
In God [is] my salvation,.... Or "upon God" (h); he that is God over all has took it upon him to save me; he is the author of salvation to me; and it is in him safe and secure, and I shall be saved in him with an everlasting salvation: and my glory; the author of all his temporal glory, honour, and dignity; and of all his spiritual glory, which...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
In God is my salvation and my glory: the rock of my strength, and my refuge, is in God. Trust in him at all times; — Say, with Job, “Though he slay me, yet will I trust in him.” “Trust in him at all times,” even when he seemeth to be angry, and hideth his face from you. “Trust in him at all times” even in the stormy and dark day. It is among the...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
In God is my salvation and my glory: the rock of my strength, and my refuge, is in God. Trust in him at all times;- I cannot tell what “times” you may be passing through just now, yet I can repeat David’s exhortation, “Trust in him at all times.” In your darkest hours, in the most terrible times that you ever have, when all seems lost, when the...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Trust in him at all times, [ye] people,.... Of the house of Israel, as the Targum; or of God, as Aben Ezra; all that are Israelites indeed, and are the Lord's covenant people; these are exhorted and encouraged to trust in him; not in a creature, nor in any outward thing, in riches, wisdom, strength, birth, privileges, the law, and the works of it;...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Ye people, pour out your heart before him: — The prophet Jeremiah bade the people pour out their heart “like water before the face of the Lord;” — not like oil, some of which clings to the glass but like water, which runs away to the last drop. So, sinner, pour out your whole heart before the Lord, for this is the way to be saved. Bring your...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Ye people, pour out your heart before him:- That is the way to get rid of all your troubles; take your heart, and turn it upside down, and pour out all that is in it. Do not save a drop or a drag: try not to hide one secret sorrow from your God, nor one slight grief that nestles in a corner of your spirit. “Pour out your heart before him.” It will...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
God is a refuge for us. Selah. Surely men of low degree are vanity, There is nothing in them; they are only the very essence of vanity.
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Surely men of low degree [are] vanity,.... Or "sons of Adam" (i); of the earthly man; of fallen Adam; one of his immediate sons was called Hebel, "vanity"; and it is true of all his sons; but here it designs only one sort of them; such as are poor and low in the world; mean men, as the phrase is rendered in Isaiah 2:9; [See comments on Psalms...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Surely men of low degree are vanity, They promise what they cannot perform. Psa_62:9. And men of high degree are a lie: They often promise what they will not perform. The many-headed multitude are vanity, put the whole of them into the scales, and how much do they weigh? Just nothing: and as for the aristocrats, those great men that would ride...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And men of high degree- They must surely be better. No, they are even worse: “Men of high degree” — Psa_62:9. Are a lie: Their presence of being better because they are of high degree is mere presence. Well but, if we mix them up, and get some poor men and some rich ones, some peasants and some peers, can we not make something solid out of this...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Trust not in oppression,.... Either in the power of oppressing others; see Isaiah 30:12; or in riches gotten by oppression, which being put into a man's hand by his friend, he keeps, and will not return them; so Aben Ezra and Kimchi interpret it of mammon unlawfully obtained; mammon of unrighteousness, or unrighteous mammon; see Jeremiah 17:11;...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Trust not in oppression, and become not vain in robbery: if riches increase, set not your heart upon them. They will be as deceptive to you as the multitude or as the prince.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Trust not in oppression,- An ungodly man says, “Well, if I cannot trust in others, I will trust in myself; my own stout arm shall win me the victory, and I will tread others down beneath my feet.” “I will get money,” says another; “somehow or other, I will get money.” To both of these, David says, “Trust not in oppression,” — Psa_62:10. And become...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
God hath spoken once,.... One word of his is more to be confided in, and depended on, than all the men and things in the world. The meaning is not that God hath only spoke once; he has spoke often; he spoke all things out of nothing in creation; he spoke all the words of the law at Mount Sinai; he spoke by the prophets under the Old Testament...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
God hath spoken once; twice have I heard this; that power belongeth unto God. Hear that, Christian, and from this day forward place no reliance upon thyself, or upon thyself any but thy God.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
God hath spoken once; twice have I heard this; that power belongeth unto God. Where ought we to put our confidence? Why, where true power is. If there were any power elsewhere, we might put a measure of confidence elsewhere; but when twice the heavenly message declares that power belongs to God, our wisdom will be shown in putting our trust in God.
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Also unto thee, O Lord, [belongeth] mercy,.... This is the other thing the psalmist had heard, and was assured of, and which encouraged his hope and trust in the Lord; that mercy belonged to him, Psalms 130:7; as appears, not only from the common bounties of his providence, daily bestowed upon his creatures; but from the special gift of his Son,...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Also unto thee, O Lord, belongeth mercy: for thou renderest to every man according to his work. God gives to each Christian grace proportioned to his work, and then he gives a reward — not of merit, but of mercy, in proportion to the work done. God grant us the grace to read, mark, learn, and inwardly digest this most instructive Psalm, until our...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Also unto thee, O Lord, belongeth mercy:- Almighty power would be terrible if it were separated from infinite mercy; but it is not so. Psa_62:12. For thou renderest to every man according to his work. Thou givest him enough strength with which to do his work. Thou dost not send him to do a work beyond his power, and leave him to fail; but unto all...