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Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And an alien unto my mother’s children. For the zeal of thine house hath eaten me up, and the reproaches of them that reproached thee are fallen upon me. Every hard word that was spoken of the Father fell upon the Son: the iniquities which were rebellions against Jehovah all fell upon the Man of Nazareth.
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
For the zeal of thine house hath eaten me up,.... Of the house of the sanctuary, as the Targum; that is, the temple, which was Christ's Father's house, where he was worshipped and dwelt; and zeal for his Father, and his glory in it, and indignation against those that made it an house of merchandise, inflamed him; put him upon driving out the...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
When I wept,.... Because of the sins of his people imputed to him; the hardness and unbelief of the Jews that rejected him; their impiety and profaneness in polluting the temple with their merchandise: he wept at the grave of Lazarus, and over the city of Jerusalem, on account of the blindness of its inhabitants, and the ruin coming upon them; and...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
When I wept, and chastened my soul with fasting, that was to my reproach. That was scandal unto them.
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
I made sackcloth also my garment,.... Though we nowhere read that Jesus put on sackcloth upon any occasion, yet it is not improbable that he did; besides, the phrase may only intend that he mourned and sorrowed at certain times, as persons do when they put on sackcloth: moreover, as the common garb of his forerunner was raiment of camels' hair,...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I made sackcloth also my garment; and I became a proverb unto them. Just as Michael said of David, “How glorious did the King of Israel become in the eyes of his handmaidens.” out of mockery, so did they reproach Christ, “How glorious was the King of Israel, so daintily arrayed in a peasant’s robe, or stripped naked upon his cross.”
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
They that sit in the gate speak against me,.... The princes, magistrates, and judges, who sat in the gates of cities, heard and tried causes, and executed judgment there; the elders of the city; see Ruth 4:1; the civil rulers among the Jews are meant; and also their ecclesiastical ones, the Scribes and Pharisees that sat in Moses's seat; though...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
They that sit in the gate speak against me; The judges who there dispensed justice, the merchants who there trade their wares, the idlers who were there to loiter, to hear the news, these speak against me. Psa_69:12. And I became the song of the drunkard. They made ballads of him, we may understand that to mean; they issued lampoons; every now and...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
But as for me, my prayer [is] unto thee, O Lord,.... Christ betook himself to prayer in these circumstances, and not to railing and reviling again: he applied to his divine Father, and committed himself to him that judgeth righteously, and prayed both for himself and for his enemies too: and this he did [in] an acceptable time; or "a time of good...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
But as for me, my prayer is unto thee, O Lord, in an acceptable time: O God, in the multitude or thy mercy hear me, in the truth of thy salvation. Deliver me out of the mire, and let me not sink: let me be delivered from them that hate me, and out of the deep waters. Think you hear your Master as he silently prays this prayer in the streets of...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Deliver me out of the mire, and let me not sink,.... In which he was sinking, Psalms 69:2; and accordingly he was delivered out of it, Psalms 11:2; even out of all the mire of sin, the sins of his people that were upon him, from which he was justified when raised from the dead; and so will appear without sin, when he comes a second time: let me be...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Let not the water flood overflow me,.... The enemy, Satan, that came in like a flood upon him, with his whole posse of devils; or the wrath of God, which came upon him like a flood overwhelming him: neither let the deep swallow me up: as Jonah by the whale, and Dathan and Abiram in the earth: and let not the pit shut her mouth upon me; either the...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Let not the waterflood overflow me, neither let the deep swallow me up, and let not the pit shut her mouth upon me. Hear me, O Lord, for thy loving-kindness is good: turn unto me according to the multitude of thy tender mercies. And hide not thy face from thy servant; for if am in trouble: hear me speedily. Draw nigh unto my soul, and redeem it:...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Hear me, O Lord; for thy lovingkindness [is] good,.... His lovingkindness to him, not only as his Son, but as Mediator; and which is a love of complacency and delight, and was from eternity, and will be to eternity: and this is "good", as appears by the effects and evidences of it; such as putting all things into his hands, showing him all that he...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
And hide not thy face from thy servant,.... This is a character that is frequently given to Christ as Mediator; he is a servant of God's choosing, calling, and appointing; of his sending, bringing forth, and supporting; who is an obedient, diligent, righteous, and prudent one; who always reverenced and honoured him whose servant he was, Isaiah...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Draw nigh unto my soul,.... God his father, while he was suffering, stood afar off from him; wherefore he desires that he would draw nigh to him in the manifestations of his love and favour to him; which he did, when he made known to him the way of life, and made him full of joy with his countenance; [and] redeem it: that is, from the power of the...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Thou hast known my reproach, and my shame, and my dishonour,.... A heap of words to express the greatness of the contempt that was cast upon him, and the injury that was done to his person and character; which was all known to God: as how he was vilified by wicked words and blasphemous speeches; how he was exposed to shame and dishonour by deeds;...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Reproach hath broken my heart,.... This was his case when his soul was exceeding sorrowful unto death, and his heart like wax melted in the midst of his bows is, Matthew 26:38; and I am full of heaviness; as he was in the garden, Mr 14:33; or, "very sick, [yea], incurably sick", as the word (g) signifies; see 2 Samuel 12:15. For what cure is there...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And I am full of heaviness: and I looked for some to take pity, but there was none; and for comforters, but I found none. They gave me also gall for my meat; and in my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink. Now, let us read the incidents in the history of Christ, of which this Psalm is a sort of prophecy and exposition. This exposition consisted of...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
They gave me also gall for my meat,.... Either some bitter herb mentioned with wormwood and hemlock, Deuteronomy 29:18; or the gall of some animal The Targum renders it, "the gall of the heads of serpents:'' the poison of some serpents is in their heads, and the word that is here used signifies the head; see Deuteronomy 32:33. This was literally...