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John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Thou holdest mine eyes waking,.... Or, "the watches", or rather "keepers of the eyes" (m); the eyebrows, which protect the eyes; these were held, so that he could not shut them, and get any sleep; so R. Moses Haccohen interprets the words, as Jarchi observes; and so the Targum, "thou holdest the brows of my eyes;'' a person in trouble, when he can...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Thou holdest mine eyes waking: I am so troubled that I cannot speak. Yet he was speaking; but it did not seem to him like speaking. It was rather an inarticulate wail than the language of a man.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Thou holdest mine eyes waking: I am so troubled that I cannot speak. You thought that the psalmist was going to say, “I cannot sleep.” He has given up the attempt to do that, so now he tries to talk; but utterance fails him. Shallow brooks sound as they flow, but deep griefs are still; and a man may be so troubled in heart that he cannot speak; he...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
I have considered the days of old,.... Either the former part of his life, the various occurrences of it, how it had been with him in time past, what experience he had had of the divine goodness; so the Syriac version renders it, "I have considered my days of old"; or the preceding age, and what has happened in that, which his ancestors had...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I have considered the days of old, the years of ancient times. A little holy history is good reading for a heavy heart. You will often stumble on a record of God’s providential dealings, or a paragraph concerning his wonderful love, that will cheer your heart. Yet it did not cheer the heart of the psalmist just then.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I have considered the days of old, the years of ancient times. I call to remembrance my song in the night. I commune with mine own heart: and my spirit made diligent search. He looked back into the records of ancient history to see if God did ever forsake a praying man. He thought upon his own experience, and he recollected how, when it was night...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
I call to remembrance my song in the night,.... What had been an occasion of praising the Lord with a song, and which he had sung in the night seasons, when he was at leisure, his thoughts free, and he retired from company; or it now being night with him, he endeavoured to recollect what had been matter of praise and thankfulness to him, and tried...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I call to remembrance my song in the night: “How I used to sing like the nightingale, with the thorn at my breast, I call that to remembrance.” But we cannot always sing old songs. Old experiences may have but little fire in their ashes, though often in their ashes live their wonted fires. Psa_77:6. I commune with mine own, heart: A very proper...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I call to remembrance my song in the night- “How I was once like a nightingale, and learnt to sing with a thorn at my breast; how, in former times, I triumphed in the hour of trouble and affliction.” It is good to recollect all this; for, though past experience will not do to live upon, yet sometimes we are like the men with their barges when they...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I commune with mine own heart: and my spirit made diligent search. Will the Lord cast off for ever? and will he be favourable no more? Come, what think you? Will such a loving, faithful God as ours cast off for ever? Can you harbour such a thought concerning him? Will he be favorable no more after all the favor he has already shown? Can he change?...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I call to remembrance my song in the night: To see whether thou didst forsake me in days gone by — marked my past experience of thy faithfulness.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I commune with mine own heart: and my spirit made diligent search. Will the Lord cast off for ever? and will he be favourable no more? Is his mercy clean gone for ever? Doth his promise fail for evermore? Hath God forgotten to be gracious? hath he in anger shut up his tender mercies? Will he be favorable no more? Very proper questions to put. They...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Will the Lord cast off for ever?.... The Syriac version of this, and the two following verses, is not by way of interrogation, but affirmation: "the Lord hath forgotten me for ever, nor will he", c. and so expresses the language of unbelief but the Arabic version, in connection with the last words, with which it begins this verse, is, "and I...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Will the Lord cast off for ever? Has he ever done so? He may seem to cast off for a little while; but “Will the Lord cast off for ever?” Psa_77:7. And will he be favourable no more? It is a long lane that has no turning. The Lord may take down the rod; but will he always use it? Will he always chide?
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Will the Lord cast off for ever? and will he be favourable no more? Is his mercy clean gone for ever? doth his promise fall for evermore? Hath God forgotten to be gracious? hath he in anger shut up his tender mercies? Selah. If you are a child of God, yet never had to ask these questions, you ought to be very grateful; but if you have to ask them,...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Is his mercy clean gone for ever?.... Or "his grace" (q); and mercy is no other than grace to objects in misery; Unbelief says it is gone, that no more will be shown, and that the treasures of it are exhausted; but Faith says it is not gone, and observes that God is the God of all grace, is rich in mercy, and abundant in goodness; that his Son is...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Is his mercy clean gone for ever? If his favor is gone, yet is his mercy gone? Does not the Psalm say, “His mercy endureth for ever”? If I cannot claim favor as a saint, may I not hope for mercy as a sinner? “Is his mercy clean gone for ever?” Psa_77:8. Doth his promise fail for evermore? Oh, what a question that is! God’s promise may tarry, but...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Is his mercy clean gone for ever? We sing, “His mercy endureth for ever;” is that a lie? Can it be? Psa_77:8. Doth his promise fail for evermore? Does it ever fail at all? And if it does tarry a while, will it always wait? Will God be found untrue at last? Come, children of God, in your trouble face these questions, and answer them; for you must...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Hath God forgotten to be gracious,.... He has not, is it possible that he should? as the Targum; it is not; he cannot forget the purposes of his grace and mercy, nor the covenant and promises of it, nor people the objects of it; and much less can he for his grace and mercy itself, so agreeable to his nature, what he delights in, and which he has...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Hath God forgotten to be gracious? What hot shots these are for unbelief! I warrant you that, however deep your unbelief may be tonight, if, by earnest prayer, with the help of the Holy Spirit, you ply it with these questions, it will have to yield. Psa_77:9. Hath he in anger shut up his tender mercies? Selah. Can it be so? Was it ever so to any...