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Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Blessed are they that dwell in thy house: The men who are always occupied in the Lord’s service, or those who are in God’s house even when they are in their own houses, — the men who are always at home with God, who feel that the canopy of heaven is the roof of God’s house in which they dwell, and who therefore never go away from God’s house, but...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Blessed are they that dwell in thy house: they will be still praising thee. The nearer to God you are in your life, the sweeter and more constant will be your song to him. They who dwell with God dwell where there must be singing. “Where God doth dwell, sure heaven is there, And singing there must be: Since, Lord, thy presence makes my heaven,...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Blessed is the man whose strength is in thee, e.] Or, "for thee", as some choose to render the words who have bodily strength from the Lord, for his worship and service, to go up to his house, and serve him: this, with what follows in the two next verses, seem to refer to the males in Israel going up from different parts of the land to Jerusalem...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Blessed is the man whose strength is in thee; in whose heart are the ways of them. The man, who throws his whole heart and soul into his worship of the Lord, and his service for the Lord, is the man who gets the greatest blessing out of the holy exercises in which he takes part. Half-hearted worshippers are an insult to God, but blessed is the man...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Blessed is the man whose strength is in thee; — Who throws his whole soul into the worship; not such as come up to the house of God, and leave their hearts at home: “Blessed is the man whose strength is in thee; —
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
In whose heart are the ways of them. (Or, better, “are thy ways.”) Who passing through the valley of Baca (or, “Weeping”) make it a well; Finding solace in their suffering, sanctification in their affliction.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Blessed is the man whose strength is in thee; in whose heart are the ways of them. Or, as it might be rendered, “In whose heart are thy ways.” The man whose strength is wholly derived from God, and who spends all his strength in God’s service, — the man who has God’s ways in his heart, and his heart in God’s ways, must be blessed. This is the man...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Blessed is the man whose strength is in thee; in whose heart are the ways — Or,” Thy ways.” It is not every man who is in God’s house who is blessed; the blessed man is the one who has brought his heart with him. It is not every man who is in God’s ways who is blessed; but the man whose strength is in those ways, who throws his whole heart and...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Who passing through the valley of Baca,.... Kimchi interprets it a valley of springs, or fountains, taking the word to be of the same signification as in Job 38:16, and mention being made of a well and pools in it, or of mulberry trees, which grow, as he says, in a place where there is no water, and such a place was this; and therefore pools or...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Who passing through the valley of Baca make it a well; the rain also filleth the pools. If they pass through valleys that are dreary and gloomy, they find them to be a benefit and a blessing, for they get refreshments on the road, and help to cheer other travelers also.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
The rain also filleth the pools. They go from strength to strength, every one of them in Zion appeareth before God. Blessed are the pilgrims who are journeying to the upper Zion, the Jerusalem which is above, the mother of all the saints. The margin renders it, “They go from company to company;” or it may mean, “They go from strength of faith to...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Who passing through the valley of Baca make it a well; the rain also filleth the pools. They get a blessing on the road to God’s house as well as a blessing in the house itself. It does their heart good even to be on the way to the assembly of God’s people, and they sing, with good Dr. Watts, — “How did my heart rejoice to hear My friends devoutly...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Who passing through the valley of Baca make it a well; the rain also filleth the pools. They go from strength to strength, every one of them in Zion appeareth before God. We do not know at this date what that valley of Baca was, for the land has been to so large an extent destroyed. This ancient song retains the name of the valley of Baca, but it...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
They go from strength to strength,.... Whose strength is in the Lord, and in whose heart are his ways, and who pass through the valley of Baca, and find a well of supply, and pools of blessings there; they renew their spiritual strength; they grow stronger and stronger every step they take; the way of the Lord is strength unto them: or "from army...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
They go from strength to strength, every one of them in Zion appeareth before God. O LORD God of hosts, hear my prayer: give ear, O God of Jacob. Selah. David cannot go up with the multitude that keeps holy day; as, feeling like Jacob when he was all alone at the brook Jabbok, like him he wrestles with God for a blessing. You can hear him crying...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
They go from strength to strength, They get stronger as they proceed on their happy, heavenward way. The men who love God, and who live with God, grow stronger and stronger ; — not always in body, for the flesh may be growing weaker while “the inward man is renewed day by day.” “They go from strength to strength,” or, as it is in the margin, “They...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
O Lord God of hosts, hear my prayer,.... the redemption of the captives, says Kimchi; for the building of the house, the temple, according to Jarchi; but rather for the courts of God, an opportunity of attending them, and for the presence of God in them; see Psalms 84:2 in which he might hope to succeed, from the consideration of the Lord's being...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
O LORD God of hosts, hear my prayer: give ear, O God of Jacob. Selah. “Thou art a prayer-hearing God. Didst thou not hear Jacob at the brook Jabbok? Then, O God of Jacob, give ear also to me! If I have not yet come to be like prevailing Israel, I am like wrestling Jacob; so, give ear to me, as thou didst to Jacob.”
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
O LORD God of hosts, hear my prayer: give ear, O God of Jacob. Selah. O God of wrestling Jacob, hear my prayer! O God, thou who didst make such a gracious covenant with Jacob, be a covenant God to me !
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
O LORD God of hosts, hear my prayer: give ear, O God of Jacob. Selah. Behold, O God our shield, and look upon the face of thine anointed. See what a rise there is in the music here, from “Hear my prayer,” to “Behold, O God our shield, and look upon the face of thine anointed.” “When thou canst not look on me, look on thine Anointed.” “Him, and...