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Spurgeon - Treasury of David - Charles H. Spurgeon
Ver. 13. Let them be confounded and consumed that are adversaries to my soul. It will be all this to them to see thy servant preserved; their envy and malice, when disappointed, will fill them with life consuming bitterness. The defeat of their plans shall nonplus them, they shall be confounded as they enquire the reason for their overthrow; the...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
But I will hope continually,.... For deliverance and salvation from present outward troubles, for; more grace here and glory hereafter: it is the excellency of the grace of hope to be exercised in times of affliction and distress, and with Abraham to believe in hope against hope; and then it is that this grace is eminently and remarkably useful:...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
My mouth shall show forth thy righteousness,.... Both his punitive justice in taking vengeance on his enemies, agreeably to the above imprecations; and his faithfulness in the performance of promises of good things unto him; as also his essential righteousness displayed and glorified in the redemption that is by Christ; and particularly the...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
My mouth shall shew forth thy righteousness and thy salvation all the day; for I know not the numbers thereof. When David spoke of those who hated him without a cause, he said that they were more than the hairs of his head. He could not count them, but he went as near to doing so as he could; but when he began to speak of God’s mercies as...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
My mouth shall shew forth thy righteousness and thy salvation all the day; for I know not the numbers thereof. I will go in the strength of the Lord God:-“ This shall be my praise; my very movements, my goings, my progress shall be in the ‘strength of the Lord God’”
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
I will go in the strength of the Lord God,.... Go on praising him, as he had determined to do in the preceding verses; not in his own strength, knowing that his heart was not always disposed aright or prepared and fit for such service; and that though the daily continuance of favours required constant praise, yet he needed always the aids of...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I will go in the strength of the LORD GOD: I will make mention of thy righteousness, even of thine only. He did not reckon that any other righteousness was worth mentioning; —and certainly not his own. The best of men, those who have been the most noted for their good works, have always been the first to feel that they had no works in which they...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I will make mention of thy righteousness, even of thine only. O God, thou hast taught me from my youth. Here is the same kind of argument again: “ O Lord, I went to school to thee, so I must teach others what thou hast taught me.”
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
O God, thou hast taught me from my youth,.... The corruption of human nature; the weakness and impotence of it, to everything that is spiritually good; and the need of continual strength and grace from Christ, to go to him for righteousness and strength, life and salvation, and to walk by faith on him; the doctrine of justification by the...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
O God, thou hast taught me from my youth: and hitherto have I declared thy wondrous works. I pray very earnestly for you young people, and I beg you to pray for yourselves, that you may have the great privilege of being able to say, with the psalmist, “O God, thou hast taught me from my youth.” They make good scholars who go to school early, and...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And hitherto have I declared thy wondrous works. “Thou madest me a preacher, and I have stuck to my word. Hitherto have I declared thy wondrous works.’”
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Now also, when I am old and grayheaded, O God, forsake me not,.... A repetition of his request, Psalms 71:9; with a reason annexed to it, suggested in the following words: until I have showed thy strength unto [this] generation; or, "thine arm" (e); which sometimes the Messiah, Isaiah 53:1; who is the power of by whom he made the worlds, and in...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Now also when I am old and grayheaded, O God, forsake me not; until I have shewed thy strength unto this generation, and thy power to every one that is to come. Old men ought to tell to younger men what God has done for them. There is great weight in the testimony of a godly man of ripe experience. Full of years, he speaks of what he knows, and...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Now also when I am old and grayheaded, O God, forsake me not; until I have shewed thy strength unto this generation and thy power to every one that is to come. Thy righteousness also, O God, is very high, who hast done great things: O God, who is like unto thee! Thou, which hast shewed me great and sore troubles, shalt quicken me again, “Thou...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Thy righteousness also, O God, [is] very high,.... Or, "unto [the place] on high" (f); it reaches unto heaven, as the mercy, truth, and faithfulness of God, are said to do, Psalms 36:5. The righteousness of Christ is accepted of with God the Father in heaven; it is in Christ, who is there at the right hand of God; and it is higher and infinitely...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Thy righteousness also, O God, is very high, who hast done great things: O God, who is like unto thee! The more we know of God, the less we think of all others. We sink ourselves out of sight, and all other creatures seem to be as nothing in comparison with our God.
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
[Thou], which hast showed me great and sore troubles,.... Or, "made [him] to see" (g); that is, to experience. David had his troubles, and these were great, both as to quantity and quality; and very grievous and hard to be borne, and were very trying and afflictive: some outward, such as he endured when persecuted by Saul; and afterwards in his...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Thou, which hast shewed me great and sore troubles, shalt quicken me again, and shalt bring me up again from the depths of the earth. This we shall experience in part even in our present lifetime; but we shall much more fully experience it on the resurrection morning, — “When Christ his risen saints shall bring From beds of dust, and silent clay,...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And shalt bring me up again from the depths of the earth. “Though I seem to be like a man buried in the depth of the earth thou wilt bring me up again.”
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Thou shalt increase my greatness,.... His temporal greatness, as he did, by crushing the rebellion of his son; returning him to his palace and family; and giving him rest from his enemies all around: and his spiritual greatness, by favouring him with his presence; by shedding abroad his love in his heart; by enlarging his experience; increasing...