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Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Thou hast a mighty arm: strong is thy hand, and high is thy right hand. Justice and judgment are the habitation of thy throne: mercy and truth shall go before thy face. Blessed is the people that know the joyful sound: There are some who hear it, and yet are not blessed. Blessed are they who “know” it, know its peculiar accent, know its inward...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Thou hast a mighty arm: strong is thy hand, and high is thy right hand. Justice and judgment are the habitation of thy throne: mercy and truth shall go before thy face. There are wells of joy in this verse to those who know how to draw it up. It is a great delight to every man who is oppressed to know that justice and judgment stand, like armed...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Thou hast a mighty arm: strong is thy hand, and high is thy right hand. Amid all the varying expressions that the psalmist uses, he continues to admire and magnify God’s majestic might. Whether for the defense of his people or the overthrow of his enemies, his arm is mighty, yea, more than that, for it is almighty. No human language can adequately...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Justice and judgment are the habitation of thy throne,.... The seat and throne on which he sits; all the administrations of his kingly power in the government of the world, in the salvation of his people, and in the punishment of his enemies, being according to the strict rules of justice and judgment: or "the preparation of thy throne" (d); all...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Justice and judgment are the habitation of thy throne: mercy and truth shall go before thy face. What blessed heralds does the Lord employ! “Mercy and truth shall go before thy face.” It is these gracious attributes, especially as they are displayed in the person and work of the Lord Jesus Christ, that enable us even to welcome those sterner...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Blessed is the people that know the joyful sound,.... Of the love, grace, and mercy of God displayed in Christ, of peace and pardon by his blood, of justification by his righteousness, of atonement by his sacrifice, and of complete salvation by his obedience, sufferings, and death; this is the sound of the Gospel, and a joyful one it is to...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
They shall walk, O LORD, in the light of thy countenance. It is all the light they want. Let God but smile, it makes their day. If every candle were blown out, yet the favor of God would make life bright enough for them.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Blessed is the people that know the joyful sound: they shall walk, O LORD, in the light of thy countenance. In thy name shall they rejoice all the day: and in thy righteousness shall they be exalted. For thou art the glory of their strength: and in thy favour our horn shall be exalted. For the LORD is our defence; and the Holy One of Israel is our...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Blessed is the people that know the joyful sound: There are many that hear it, but perhaps not one out of a thousand of them that really know it. The hearing of the joyful sound is not sufficient to make people blessed, though faith cometh by hearing; it is the understanding of what is meant by the glad tidings, it is the reception of the gospel...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
In thy name shall they rejoice all the day,.... That know the joyful sound, and walk in the light of God's countenance, as they have reason to do; these will "rejoice" in the Lord himself, for his "name" is himself; in the perfections of his nature, as displayed in redemption and salvation by Christ; in him as the God of all grace, as their...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
In thy name shall they rejoice all the day: and in thy righteousness shall they be exalted. Even in God’s righteousness. Until we know the Lord, we are afraid of his righteousness, but when we come to know him, his righteousness, which once frowned upon us, becomes our heaven. “God is not unrighteous to forget your work and labour of love.” God is...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
In thy name shall they rejoice all the day: They shall not have mere passing fits of joy, but they shall be glad from morning to night. Psa_89:16. And in thy righteousness shall they be exalted. They shall mount to a higher platform of joy than that on which the men of the world are standing; they shall be lifted up in soul and spirit by the...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
For thou art the glory of their strength,.... By which they walk, and do all they do, exercise every grace, and discharge their duty; they have their strength from Christ, as well as their righteousness, without whom they can do nothing, but all things through him strengthening them; and as his righteousness exalts them, his strength adorns and...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For thou art the glory of their strength: and in thy favour our horn shall be exalted. For the LORD is our defence; and the Holy One of Israel is our king. Then thou spakest in vision to thy holy one, and saidst, I have laid help upon one that is mighty; I have exalted one chosen out of the people. This is David first, but it is Christ high above...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For thou art the glory of their strength: and in thy favour our horn shall be exalted. For the Lord is our defense; and the Holy One of lsrael is our king. Then thou spakest in vision to thy holy one, and saidst, I have laid help upon one that is mighty; I have exalted one chosen out of the people. This is the very marrow of the gospel; this is...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
For the Lord is our defence,.... From all their enemies, being all around them, as a wall of fire to protect them, and as the mountains were round about Jerusalem, and being kept by his power as in a fortress, strong hold, or garrison, unto salvation; or our shield (f); see Psalms 84:9 as are his favour, righteousness, and salvation, Psalms 5:12...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Then thou spakest in vision to thy Holy One,.... Samuel the prophet, that holy man of God, to whom the Lord spoke in vision, or by a spirit of prophecy, concerning David, the choice and exaltation of him to the kingdom, and his unction for it, 1 Samuel 16:1. The Vulgate Latin version reads it "to thy Holy Ones": and so the Targum, with which agree...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
I have found David my servant,.... Not David literally; but his Son and antitype, the Messiah, who is sometimes called by his name; [See comments on Psalms 89:3], and his "finding" him does not suppose any ignorance of him, nor anxious solicitude in seeking him, nor any fortuitous event; but is attributed to God by an anthropopathy, or speaking...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I have found David my servant; with my holy oil have I anointed him: with whom my hand shall be established: mine arm also shall strengthen him. The full power of God is with Christ. That same arm, that bears the earth’s huge pillars up, and spreads the heavens abroad, is engaged on behalf of the cause and kingdom of the Son of David.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I have found David my servant; with my holy oil have I anointed him: David was the means of bringing great blessings to the people over whom he ruled. God blessed the whole nation through him, and the covenant made with David was virtually a covenant made with all the people of Israel. In like manner, he covenant made with “great David’s greater...