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Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
If I say, I will speak thus; behold, I should offend against the generation of thy children. That was very wise of Asaph. He thought but he did not speak. Some persons say, “You may as well out with it.” You may as well keep it in; nay, a great deal better. If you have it in your own heart, it will grieve yourself, but if you speak it out, you...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
When I thought to know this,.... How to reconcile the prosperity of the wicked, and the afflictions of the righteous, to the perfections of God, and his wise providence in the government of the world, by the mere dint of reason, without consulting the sacred oracles, or his own and others' experience: it was too painful for me: too laborious and...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
When I thought to know this, it was too painful for me; He could not bear the thought of offending God’s children; but, at the same time, the problem itself, concerning the righteous and the wicked, until he could solve it, was too painful for him.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
When I thought to know this, it was too painful for me; Until I went into the sanctuary of God; then understood I their end. He went and hid himself in his God; he got near his God. It does not mean that he went to some place of worship, but that he went to the God whom he worshipped — hid himself in his God.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
When I thought to know this, it was too painful for me; It was too painful for the psalmist to think of it, too painful to speak of it; and yet too painful for him to hold his tongue.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
When I thought to know this, it was too painful for me. “Too painful” to keep it: “too painful” to speak it out and grieve other people.
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Until I went into the sanctuary of God,.... The tabernacle or house of God, where the Word of God was read and explained, prayer was made, and sacrifices offered up, and where fellowship was had with the saints, and communion with God himself; which for one hour or moment is preferable to all the prosperity of the wicked, during their whole life....
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Until I went into the sanctuary of God; When he went into God’s holy place, — when he began to understand God’s purposes and plans, and looked beyond the present life into the dreadful future of the ungodly, he could say: — Psa_73:17. Then understood I their end. And understanding their end, his difficulty ceased, his puzzling problem was solved.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Until I went into the sanctuary of God; then understood I their end. When he came near to his God, when he went into the holy place, and communed with the Lord, then he saw what would be the end of the wicked. Ah, what a difference it makes when we look at the ungodly from the right standpoint! “Then understood I their end.”
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Until I went into the sanctuary of God; then understood their end. Asaph went to his God. He got to Christ, whom he foresaw, for the person of Jesus Christ is the sanctuary of God. Some people call these buildings sanctuaries. They have no authority for so doing. “God dwelleth not in temples made with hands.” He may have done so under the old...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Surely thou didst set them in slippery places,.... In which a man cannot stand long, and without danger; and the higher they are the more dangerous, being slippery, and such are places of honour and riches. The phrase denotes the uncertainty and instability of these things, and the danger men are in who are possessed of them of falling into...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Surety thou didst set them in slippery places: As if they stood upon a ridge of ice, from which they must slip down; —who wishes to be lifted up upon an Alp of prosperity, from which he may be dashed down at any moment? If you knew that there was a man standing on the top of the cross of St. Paul’s at this moment, I do not suppose that any of you...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Surely thou didst set them in slippery places; thou castedst them down into destruction. “On hills of ice I see them stand, While flaming billows roll below, melting down their foundation.”
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Surely thou didst set them in slippery places: Up there ever so high; Psa_73:18. Thou castedst them down into destruction. When the time comes, down they are hurled from those slippery heights into the awful depths below.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Surely thou didst set them in slippery places: There they are—on a mountain of ice, bright and glittering: up aloft, where others see, admire, and wonder at them. But oh! how dangerous their pathway! Psa_73:18. Thou casteth them down into destruction. They are not left to slip, but a hand overthrows them—flings them down from the heights of their...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
How are they brought into desolation, as in a moment?.... Very suddenly, which is often the case of wicked men, who cry Peace and safety, and sudden destruction comes upon them, 1 Thessalonians 5:3, so as in a moment were the punishment of Sodom and Gomorrah, of Pharaoh and his host, and of Korah and his company, Lamentations 4:6, the words are...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
How are they brought into desolation, as in a moment! they are utterly consumed with terrors. As a dream when one awaketh; so, O Lord, when thou awakest, thou shalt despise their image. When a man wakes up, the image that was before his mind, in his dream, is gone; and when God wakes up to judgment, these wicked men, who were but as images in a...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
; Psa_73:22. How are they brought into desolation, as in a moment! they are utterly consumed with terrors. As a dream when one awaketh; so, O Lord, when thou awakest, thou shalt despise their image. Thus my heart was grieved, and I was pricked in my veins. So foolish was I, and ignorant: I was as a beast before thee. It is a man of God that talks...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Now are they brought into desolation, as in a moment! they are utterly consumed with terrors. When the ungodly reach the next world, where are their riches, where are their feasts, where are their merry jokes, where are their lofty words? Listen: “How are they brought into desolation, as in a moment! they are utterly consumed with terrors.”
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
How are they brought into desolation, as in a moment! they are utterly consumed with terrors. As a dream when one awaketh; so, O Lord, when thou awakest, thou shalt despise their image. As if God slept today, and let these images of prosperity exist as in a dream; but by-and-by he wakes. His time of judgment comes, and where are these prosperous...