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Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Thou shalt increase my greatness, and comfort me on every side. Think of poor old David talking like this when he was driven into exile, and many of his former friends had forsaken him: “’Thou shalt increase my greatness.’ I shall get good out of this evil; I shall rise by this fall; I shall be a gainer by these losses.”
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Thou shalt increase my greatness, and comfort me on every side. I will also praise thee- God blessing us, and we in return blessing him, so it ought to be. The more God does for us, the more we ought to do for him, is it not so, brother? Is not this good argument? Art thou carrying it out? Let thy conscience answer.
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
I will also praise thee with the psaltery,.... An instrument of music; [See comments on Psalms 33:2]; [even] thy truth, O my God; that is, his faithfulness in fulfilling his promises, which is never suffered to fail; unto thee will I sing with the harp; another instrument of music; and both typical of the spiritual melody in the heart, which...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I will also praise thee with the psaltery, even thy truth, O my God: “When I have proved thy truth; when my joyful experience has proved that every promise of thine is true to thy servant, then I will praise both thyself and thy truth, O my God.”
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Unto thee will I sing with the harp, O thou Holy One of Israel. My lips shall greatly rejoice when I sing unto thee; That is the best kind of praise to God when our very lips are happy in singing, when we do not merely sibilate the sound, but when the meaning wells up from our heart, and our lips are glad to sing it out.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
With the psaltery, even thy truth, O my God: unto thee will I sing with the harp. O thou Holy One of Israel. My lips shall greatly rejoice when I sing unto thee. Singing unto God ought to be the gladdest of exercises, when it is done in a doleful, dolorous way, it is not singing, but groaning.
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
My lips shall greatly rejoice when I sing unto thee,.... Both with vocal and instrumental music; this is praising the Lord with joyful lips, Psalms 63:5; and my soul, which thou hast redeemed; signifying that it would not be lip labour, or bodily service, only that he should perform; but that his heart would go along with his lips in praise; and...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And my soul, which thou hast redeemed. My tongue also shall talk of thy righteousness all the day long: for they are confounded, for they are brought unto shame that seek my hurt.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And my soul, which thou hast redeemed. “The sprinkled blood is on my soul, and therefore it shall leap for joy. Rescued from captivity, bought back from slavery, “my soul, which thou hast redeemed; shall greatly rejoice when I sing unto thee.”
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
My tongue also shall talk of thy righteousness all the day long,.... [See comments on Psalms 71:16]; for they are confounded; his adversaries, for whose confusion he prayed, Psalms 71:13; for they are brought unto shame that seek my hurt; as Absalom and Ahithophel, being both brought to a shameful end.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
My tongue also shall talk of thy righteousness all the day long: for they are confounded, for they are brought unto shame, that seek my hurt.