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Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For who in the heaven can be compared unto the LORD? who among the sons of the mighty can be likened unto the LORD? God is greatly to be feared in the assembly of the saints, The holiest are always the most reverent. There is no fear of God in the assembly of the sinners; but he is greatly to be feared in the assembly of the saints.”
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For who in the heaven can be compared unto the LORD? Who among the sons of the mighty can be likened unto the LORD? God is greatly to be feared — That is, reverenced, —
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
God is greatly to be feared in the assembly of the saints,.... Which Jarchi and Kimchi understand of angels again, and render it "God is to be feared in the great assembly of them"; for they are a very large number, even an innumerable company, in and by whom the Lord is feared and worshipped, Hebrews 12:21, but rather an assembly or congregation...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And to be had in reverence of all them that are about him. The nearer they came to him, the more is their awe of him; the greater their love, the deeper is their humility. God will not have those about him who are flippant and irreverent; he is “to be had in reverence of all them that are about him.”
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
In the assembly of the saints, and to be had in reverence of all them that are about him. O LORD God of hosts, who is a strong LORD like unto thee? or to thy faithfulness round about thee? Thou rulest the raging of the sea: when the waves thereof arise, thou stillest them. He lets them arise, and he bids them sink down again. All the providential...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
O Lord God of hosts,.... Of all the hosts of heaven, the sun, moon, and stars, and of all the heavenly hosts of angels, of all the armies in heaven, and the inhabitants of the earth: who is a strong Lord like unto thee? he is Jah, or Jehovah, and he alone is so, and is the most High in all the earth, Psalms 83:18 and there is none like him for his...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
O LORD God of hosts, who is a strong LORD like unto thee? or to thy faithfulness round about thee? Note how the psalmist harps upon that one string, — “faithfulness.” Ah, dear friends, there are times when this is the sweetest note in the whole scale! “Thy faithfulness”: we have a God who never forgets his promises, but keeps them to the moment; a...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
O LORD God of hosts, who is a strong LORD like unto thee? or to thy faithfulness round about thee? Thou rulest the raging of the sea: when the waves thereof arise, thou stillest them. Thou hast broken Rahab in pieces, as one that is slain; thou hast scattered thine enemies with thy strong arm. The ruling of the raging of the sea, the stilling of...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Thou rulest the raging of the sea,.... The power, pride, and elation of it, when it swells, and foams, and rages, and becomes boisterous, and threatens vessels upon it with utter ruin and destruction; but the Lord, who has it under his dominion and government, restrains it; he has made and can manage it, and he only: his power over it is seen in...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Thou rulest the raging of the sea: when the waves thereof arise, thou stillest them. Are you now in a storm, my brother? My sister, are you now tempest-tossed? Listen to this word, and remember the Lord High Admiral of the fleet on the Lake of Galilee, and how, after he had been asleep for awhile, he arose, and rebuked the winds and the waves:...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Thou hast broken Rahab in pieces, as one that is slain,.... Or Egypt, as in Psalms 87:4 or the Egyptians, and particularly Pharaoh their king; so the Targum explains it, "Rahab or the proud one, this is Pharaoh the wicked;'' who and his people were broken to pieces by the plagues that were brought upon them, especially when all their firstborn...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Thou hast broken Rahab in pieces, as one that is slain; thou hast scattered thine enemies with thy strong arm. Rahab was Egypt. The word means “strong”, “mighty”, “proud”, all of which were the characteristics of Egypt, which God brake in pieces at the Red Sea. Pharaoh was the greatest of monarchs at the time, but, oh, how soon he had to yield...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Thou hast broken Rahab in pieces as one that is slain; — The great crocodile of Egypt; —
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Thou hast scattered thine enemies with thy strong arm. The heavens are thine, the earth also is thine: as for the world and the fullness thereof, thou hast founded them. The north and the south thou hast created them: Tabor and Hermon shall rejoice in thy name. Oh, what a blessed spirit the spirit of true devotion is! There is such life in it that...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
The heavens are thine,.... They are made and inhabited by him, they are the work of his hands, and the seat of his majesty, and the throne of his glory; the angels of heaven are his, his creatures and servants; the several heavens are his, the airy, starry, and third heavens; the place and state of the blessed and glorified saints is of his...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
The heavens are thine, the earth also is thine: as for the world and the fullness thereof, thou hast founded them. Sometimes we are tempted to think that the earth cannot be God’s, all over the globe man is the master, he claims everything; if men could map out the heavens, we should have owners for every single twinkling star and, if they could...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
The heavens are thine, the earth also is thine: as for the world and the fullness thereof, thou hast founded them. The north and the south thou hath created them: Tabor and Hermon shall rejoice in thy name. The psalmist rejoices in the Lord as the Creator and Possessor of the heavens above and the earth beneath. “All things were created by him,...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Ver. 12 The north and the south, thou hast created them,.... The two extreme parts of the world, the northern and southern poles, whether inhabited or uninhabited, are created by the Lord, to answer some purpose or another; see Job 26:7. Tabor and Hermon shall rejoice in thy name; Tabor was a mountain in the western part of Galilee, in the tribe...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
The north and the south thou hast created them: Tabor and Hermon— East and West, as well as North and South, — Psa_89:12. Shall rejoice in thy name. There is not a place where God is not to be found. All the points of the compass are compassed by God. You cannot go where the Lord’s love reigns not, nor where Providence will not follow you.
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Thou hast a mighty arm,.... Christ is the arm of the Lord, and a mighty one he is, and so is the Gospel, which is the power of God unto salvation; here it seems to design the almighty power of God, displayed in the works of creation and providence; see Isaiah 51:9 strong is thy hand; thy "left hand", as some, it being distinguished from his right...