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John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
As a dream when one awaketh,.... So will be all the temporal felicity of wicked men, all an illusion, all a dream; when they lift up their eyes in hell, and awake in the resurrection, they will find themselves destitute of all their riches and honours, and it will be as if they had only dreamed of them, and never enjoyed them; see Job 20:6 so, "O...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
As a dream when one awaketh, so, O Lord, when thou awakest, thou shalt despise their image. When a man wakes, his dream is over and gone. When God awakes to judgment, and comes to deal with ungodly men, then all those who prospered in wickedness shall melt away, like the baseless fabric of a dream.
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Thus my heart was grieved,.... Not with his own sins, nor with the sins of the wicked, but at their prosperity; for this is an account of himself, while under the temptation, and before he went into the sanctuary of the Lord; or when he was "leavened" (r), with the old leaven of wickedness, and envy, and indignation; he was in a ferment, so...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Thus my heart was grieved, and I was pricked in my reins. In the tenderest and most vital parts of his being, he felt an inward and terrible pain.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Thus my heart was grieved, and I was pricked in my reins. So foolish was I, and ignorant: I was as a beast before thee. For the beast only measures by the day and the hour, as far as its eye can see. Give it a meadow deep with grass, and it is perfectly happy, but when good men get measuring by the day, and by the hour, and by the lifetime here...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Thus my heart was grieved, and I was pricked in my reins. I felt a heart-pain. I felt my whole nature go amiss, as if there had been calculi causing the deepest possible misery in my reins.
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
So foolish was I,.... To envy the prosperity of the wicked, which is of so short a continuance; to arraign the providence and perfections of God, and to conclude so hastily that there was nothing in religion: and ignorant; or, "I knew not" (w); what he attempted to know, Psalms 73:16, nor the end of the wicked, till he went into the sanctuary of...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
So foolish was I, and ignorant: I was as a beast before thee. Judging as the beast judges, that can only see the little grass around itself, and fattens itself, knowing nothing of the shambles, and of the butcher’s knife that is being sharpened to kill it there. “So,” says the psalmist, “I was like that, I forgot about the future, I did not judge...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
So foolish was I, and ignorant: I was as a beast before thee. I saw no farther than a goose. Like a beast that cannot look into the future, I judged these men by today—by the pastures in which they fed, and the fatness which they gathered there. “I was as a beast before thee.” Now notice the splendid connection of these two verses. I will read...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Nevertheless, I am continually with thee,.... Upon the heart of God, in his hands, under his eye, under his wings of protection and care, and not suffered to depart from him finally and totally; he could not be disunited and removed from him by the above temptation; nor was he left to cast off the fear of the Lord, and to forsake his worship and...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Nevertheless — This phrase is most delightful, coming in connection with his previous confession: “I was as a beast before thee. Nevertheless” — Psa_73:23. I am continually with thee: thou hast holden me by my right hand. That is your portion also, Christian. However few your pounds, however short your supplies, you are continually with God, and...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
; Psa_73:28. Nevertheless I am continually with thee: thou hast holden me by my right hand. Thou shalt guide me with thy counsel, and afterwards receive me to glory. Whom have I in heaven but thee? and there is none upon earth that I desire beside thee. My flesh and my heart faileth: but God is the strength of my heart, and my portion for ever....
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Nevertheless I am continually with thee: Oh, what a mercy this is for believers! If we are ever so poor, we are continually with God. What if we be chastened every morning? It is clear that we must be with God then, for a chastening God must be near. Psa_73:23. Thou hast holden me by my right hand. “Even when thou didst whip me. Everywhere thou...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Nevertheless I am continually with thee: thou hast holden me by my right hand. What a strange mixture a man is! And a godly man is the strangest conglomerate of all. He is a beast, and yet continually with God. View him from one side, he is ignorant: view him from the other, and he hath an unction from the Holy One, and he knows all things. View...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Thou shalt guide me with thy counsel,.... Which is wise and prudent, wholesome, suitable, and seasonable, hearty, sincere, and faithful, and which is freely given, and when taken, infallibly succeeds: or "according to thy counsel" (a); the determinate counsels, purposes, and will of God, which were of old faithfulness and truth; who does all...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Thou shalt guide me with thy counsel, and afterward receive me to glory. There is where your chief possession lies, locked up in that which is marked “Afterward.” Not today, possibly not tomorrow, but “afterward” is your inheritance: “afterward thou wilt receive me to glory.”
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Thou shalt guide me with thy counsel, and afterward receive me to glory. Whom have I in heaven but thee, and there is none upon earth that I desire beside thee. Now he finds in God his riches, his joy, his prosperity, his portion.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Thou shalt guide me with thy counsel, and afterward receive me to glory. I, the fool that envied fools, yet “thou shalt guide me with thy counsel, and afterward receive me to glory.”
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Whom have I in heaven but thee,.... Which includes God the Father, Son, and Spirit; God the Father, as his only covenant God and Father; Christ as his only Mediator, Saviour, and Redeemer, Head, Husband, Advocate, and Intercessor; the Spirit as his only sanctifier, Comforter, earnest, and sealer; and is expressive of their being the one and only...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Whom have I in heaven but thee? and there is none upon earth that I desire beside thee. Here is the Christian’s heavenly and earthly portion and treasure. He has his God, both here and hereafter; and this is better than all that can fall to the lot of the worldling.