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John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
INTRODUCTION TO Psalms 71 This psalm is without a title, but is thought to be David's: the Septuagint and Vulgate Latin versions, and all the Oriental ones, ascribe it to him; and both the subject and style show it to be his. According to the title of the Syriac version, it was composed by him when Saul made war against the house of David; but...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
In thee, O Lord, do I put my trust,.... The Targum is, "in thy Word;'' [See comments on Psalms 31:1]; let me never be put to confusion; or "be ashamed"; see the note as before.
Matthew Henry - Complete Commentary - Matthew Henry
David penned this psalm in his old age, as appears by several passages in it, which makes many think that it was penned at the time of Absalom's rebellion; for that was the great trouble of his later days. It might be occasioned by Sheba's insurrection, or some trouble that happened to him in that part of his life of which it was foretold that the...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
In thee, O LORD, do I put my trust: let me never be put to confusion. There is his trust, and there is his fear; his trust he dares to avow, his fear he turns into a prayer.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
In thee, O LORD, do I put my trust: let me never be put to confusion. “Stand by me, O Lord, for I only stand as thou upholdest me; and if thou shouldest leave me, after I have trusted in thee, what could I say or do? Therefore, O Jehovah, since I put my trust in thee, ‘let me never be put to confusion.’”
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
In thee, O LORD, do I put my trust: let me never be put to confusion. Deliver me in thy righteous, and cause me to escape: incline thine ear unto me, and save me. Be thou my strong habitation, whereunto I may continually resort: thou hast given commandment to save me; for thou art my rock and my fortress. Deliver me, O my God, out of the hand of...
Spurgeon - Treasury of David - Charles H. Spurgeon
Ver. 1. In thee, O Lord, do I put my trust. Jehovah deserves our confidence; let him have it all. Every day must we guard against every form of reliance upon an arm of flesh, and hourly hang our faith upon the ever faithful God. Not only on God must we rest, as a man stands on a rock, but in him must we trust, as a man hides in a cave. The more...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Deliver me in thy righteousness,.... By it, or "for the sake of [it]" (q); [See comments on Psalms 31:1]; and cause me to escape; present danger, and out of the hands of enemies, as well as wrath to come, and eternal death; which nothing but the righteousness of God can deliver from, or cause to escape; incline thine ear unto me; or "bow it"; [See...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Deliver me in thy righteousness, and cause me to escape: incline thine ear unto me, and save me. Be thou my strong habitation, whereunto I may continually resort: thou hast given commandment to save me; for thou art my rock and my fortress. “Be thou my strong habitation whereunto I may continually resort.” Not merely now and then a hiding-place in...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Deliver me in thy righteousness, and cause me to escape: “I am like a poor dove taken in a net, I cannot get away. Stretch out thine hand, O Lord, and tear the net, and so deliver me, and cause me to escape. I cannot do anything for myself, except pray to thee to deliver me.” Psa_71:2. Incline thine ear unto me, and save me. “My prayer is weak;...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Be thou my strong habitation,.... This is very appropiately said, when David was driven out of his dwelling place, and palace at Jerusalem, by his son, as Kimchi observes. When God's people have no certain dwelling place, which is sometimes their case, they always find one in the Lord; particularly in his heart's love; for he that dwelleth in love...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Be thou my strong habitation, whereunto I may continually resort: thou hast given commandment to save me; for thou art my rock and my fortress. If David wrote this Psalm after the rebellion of his wicked son Absalom, I think there is an instructive illustration here. You remember that, when the troops went out from Mahanaim to fight with Absalom,...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Deliver me, O my God, out of the hand of the wicked,.... Meaning Absalom his son, as Arama, who had risen up in rebellion against him; and he may not only intend him, but all those wicked men that had joined with him: it was David's mercy he had a covenant God to go to, and could claim his interest in him, who had power to deliver him, and from...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Deliver me, O my God, out of the hand of the wicked, out of the hand of the unrighteous and cruel man. Two iron hands are trying to pull him down, but he cries to God, whose one almighty hand can set him free.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Deliver me, O my God, out of the hand of the wicked, out of the hated of the unrighteous and cruel man. For thou art my hope, O Lord GOD: thou art my trust from my youth. Happy is the man who can truthfully say that, “Thou art my trust from my youth.” God does not cast off his old servants, as men often do. Those who give him the best of their...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
For thou [art] my hope, O Lord God,.... The object, ground, and foundation of it, even of present deliverance, and of future and eternal salvation; [thou art] my trust from my youth; in whom he trusted in his youthful days, of which there is an eminent instance in 1 Samuel 17:33.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For thou art my hope, O Lord God: thou art my trust from my youth. Happy man that can look back upon a youth spent in God’s fear; for if we have trusted God in our youth, depend upon it, he will never cast us away.
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
By thee have I been holden up from the womb,.... Supported in being, upheld in life, and sustained with food and raiment, and followed with the mercies and blessings of life from thence to this present moment; which the psalmist takes notice of, as he does of what goes before and follows after, to encourage his faith and hope in God as to present...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
By thee have I been holden up from the womb: thou art he that took me out of my mother’s bowels: my praise shall be continually of thee. When we could not help ourselves, in the very moment of our birth, God took care of us; and he will take care of us even to the end. Men and women who are old should remember how carefully the Lord nursed them...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
By thee have I been holden up from the womb: thou art he that took me out of my mother’s bowels: my praise shall be continually of thee. We do not think, as often as we should, of what we owe to God for his care over us at the time of our birth. Our mothers returned thanks on their own behalf and ours; but, as we look back, we are bound to return...