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Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Because thy lovingkindness is better than life, my lips shall praise thee. Thus will I bless thee while I live: I will lift up my hands in thy name. My soul shall be satisfied as with marrow and fatness; and my mouth shall praise thee with joyful lips: Satisfaction, absolute satisfaction; satiety of every desire, full to the brim to the running...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Thus will I bless thee while I live,.... With his whole heart and soul, as he had sought after him, and as under a sense of his lovingkindness; and as he now praised him with his lips, so he determined to do as long as he had life and being; by proclaiming his blessedness, by ascribing blessing and honour to him, and by giving him the glory of all...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Thus will I bless thee while I live: “As long as I live, I will praise thee; every breath of mine shall be perfumed with thankfulness and adoration.” Psa_63:4. I will lift up my hands in thy name. “In astonishment at the power of thy great name, and in confidence will I lift them up when they have been hanging down in weakness. I will go forth in...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I will lift up my hands in thy name. “I will pluck up spirit; I will begin to pray; I will begin to work. I will look toward heaven: ‘I will lift up my hands in thy name.’”
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Thus will I bless thee while I live: I will lift up my hands in thy name. “For very joy, I will lift them up, and clap them before thee. Though, aforetime, they hung down, as though I were dispirited, and could never work again, yet now, ‘ I will lift up my hands in thy name.’”
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Thus will I bless thee while I live: I will lift up my hands in thy name. I will confess thee. I will rejoice in thee. I will work for thee. I will encourage myself in thee. I will lift up my hands in thy name. Are any of you cast down? Do your hands hang down? Then lift them up in God’s name. Nothing else can make you strong. The name of the Lord...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
My soul shall be satisfied as [with] marrow and fatness,.... When he should return to the house of the Lord, and partake of the provisions of it, called the fatness of his house, [See comments on Psalms 36:8]. The phrase denotes the abundance of spiritual refreshment and delight in the word and ordinances, and the great satisfaction had in them;...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
My soul shall be satisfied as with marrow and fatness; Orientals, in their feasts, are very fond of fat such as you and I would hardly eat; they think that the choicest part of their diet. So David, using his own metaphor, says that God would satisfy his soul as with the very marrow and fatness of joys. Psa_63:5. And my mouth shall praise thee...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
My soul shall be satisfied with marrow and fatness, and my mouth shall praise thee with joyful lips: There is everything that is satisfactory in God. If we do but enjoy his presence, we cannot lack anything. Are we not put, as it were, into heaven itself when we are brought near to God? Are we not willing to remain for a while on earth, and to...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
My soul shall be satisfied as with marrow and fatness;— God’s flowers always bloom double. God’s blessings are like marrow and fatness; there is in them a double satisfaction of the most intense kind: “My soul shall be satisfied as with marrow and fatness;”— Psa_63:5. And my mouth shall praise thee with joyful lips: The psalmist speaks as if each...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
My soul shall be satisfied as with marrow and fatness; and my mouth shall praise thee with joyful lips: when I remember thee upon my bed, and meditate on thee in the night watches. God’s people know what perfect satisfaction means. When God reveals his love to them and Christ draws near in the fullness of his grace, then they would not change...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
When I remember thee upon my bed,.... Or "beds" (q); seeing he lay in many, as Kimchi observes, being obliged to flee from place to place. The sense is, that when he was on his bed in the night season, when alone, and free from worldly cares and fatigues, and called to mind the love of God to him, the past experience of his kindness, his promises...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
When I remember thee upon my bed, and meditate on thee in the night watches. Of course, in the wilderness, they had to set a watch against Absalom and his men; and David very likely could hear the noise in the camp as they changed the sentries, and marked the hours of the night. “Oh!” said he, “while I lie awake, and the watchers are on guard all...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
When I remember thee upon my bed, and meditate on thee in the night watches. When one is living near to God, he is not afraid of sleeplessness. He would be glad of the rest that sleep brings, but if he cannot sleep, he finds a sweeter rest in God. I remarked, one day, to one who lives very near to God, that it was a weary and sad thing to lie...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
When I remember thee upon my bed, and meditate on thee in the night watches. “Even then shall I have joy, for thy presence makes even the darkness to be light.”
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
When I remember thee upon my bed, and meditate on thee in the night watches. Because thou hast been my help, therefore in the shadow of thy wings will I rejoice. If I cannot see thy face the shadow of thy wing shall be enough for me, for that shall shelter me from all harm and I will, yea I will rejoice. Under the wings we are near the heart of...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Because thou hast been my help,.... Or, "that thou hast been my help" (s); and so the words may be considered as the subject of his meditation in the night watches, at least as a part of it; and as what gave him a great deal of pleasure to reflect upon, how the Lord had been in times past a present help to him in time of trouble; therefore in the...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Because thou hast been my help, therefore in the shadow of thy wings will I rejoice. My soul followeth hard after thee: If he could not keep pace with his Lord, and did in some measure lose the joy of walking with God, then he would run after him. If thou canst not lean on Christ’s arm, keep close at Christ’s heel; be as near him as thou canst,...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Because thou hast been my help, therefore in the shadow of thy refuge will I rejoice. “If I cannot look up, and see the light of thy face, the very shade of thy wings shall make me glad, and I will sing like a nightingale, in the dark.”
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Because thou hast been my help, therefore in the shadow of thy wings will I rejoice. “If I cannot get into the light of thy countenance, the very shadow of thy wings shall make me glad. Only let me be near thee; that is all I crave.” Psa_63:7. My soul followeth hard after thee “I am like a dog who loves to keep close to his master’s heels.”