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John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
For all our days are passed away in thy wrath,.... The life of man is rather measured by days than by months or years; and these are but few, which pass away or "decline" (g) as the day does towards the evening; see Jeremiah 6:4 or "turn away their face", as the word (h) may be rendered: they turn their backs upon us, and not the face to us; so...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For all our days are passed away in thy wrath: we spend our years as a tale that is told. The days of our years are threescore years and ten: and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labour and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away. It is well to have such a sense of our mortality upon us as this psalm...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For all our days are passed away in thy wrath: we spend our years as a tale that is told. “For all our days are passed away in thy wrath.” So it was with those that were round about Moses; but our days are passed in God’s goodness: they shall pass away in infinite love, “We spend our years as a tale that is told.”
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
The days of our years are threescore years and ten,.... In the Hebrew text it is, "the days of our years in them are", c. (a) which refers either to the days in which we live, or to the persons of the Israelites in the wilderness, who were instances of this term of life, in whom perhaps it first took place in a general way: before the flood, men...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
The days of our years are threescore years and ten; — This was a gloomy fact to Moses, who lived to be a hundred and twenty years of age, and who probably remembered other men who had been far older than himself. Yet it is well that the ordinary period of human life has been shortened. It is still far too long for those who do evil, though it may...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
The days of our years are three-score years and ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labour and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away. Speaking of the mass of men, this is all that can be said of them; but as for the godly, where do they fly? They fly into his bosom who has loved them with an...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Who knoweth the power of thine anger?.... Expressed in his judgments on men: as the drowning of the old world, the burning of Sodom and Gomorrah, the consumption of the Israelites in the wilderness; or in shortening the days of men, and bringing them to the dust of death; or by inflicting punishment on men after death; they are few that take...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Who knoweth the power of thine anger? even according to thy fear, so is thy wrath. So teach us to number our days, that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom. It has been well said that many men will number their cows, and number their coins, but forget to number their days. Yet that is a kind of arithmetic that would be exceedingly profitable to...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Who knoweth the power of thine anger? even according to thy fear, so is thy wrath. Dread is God’s anger, indeed. Who knows it? None of us do. The lost in hell begin to know it, but it will need eternity for them to learn it all. Oh! I charge everyone here who is unpardoned never to attempt to learn what God’s anger means. It will be an awful...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Who knoweth the power of thine anger? even according to thy fear, so is thy wrath. As he is greatly to be reverenced, so is he greatly to be feared. But the Lord has said of his people, “As I have sworn that the waters of Noah shall no more cover the earth, so have I sworn that I would not be wroth with thee, nor rebuke thee.” Blessed be his name.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Who knoweth the power of thine anger? even according to they fear, so is thy wrath. God grant that none of us may ever know experimentally the power of his anger; but may we know it, as a matter of faith, so as to tremble concerning it, and so as to flee to Christ to be delivered from it! But what must it be really to feel the power of God’s...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
So teach us to number our days,.... Not merely to count them, how many they are, in an arithmetical way; there is no need of divine teachings for that; some few instructions from an arithmetician, and a moderate skill in arithmetic, will enable persons not only to count the years of their lives, but even how many days they have lived: nor is this...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
So teach us to number our days, that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom. Count how many days have gone. Will not the time past suffice us to have wrought the will of the flesh? You cannot tell how few remain, but still, if you live to the longest period of life, taking that for granted which you may not take for granted, how little remains! Oh!...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
So teach us to number our days, that we may apply our hearts unto Wisdom. Return, O LORD, how long? and let it repent thee concerning thy servants. O satisfy us early with thy mercy; that we may rejoice and be glad all our days. Poor Israel was greatly afflicted. These deaths in the wilderness made her a perpetual mourner, but Moses asks that God...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
So teach us to number our days, that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom. That is the great matter, after all, to get the heart applied to wisdom, to learn what is the right way, and to walk in it in the practical actions of daily life. It is of little use for us to learn to number our days if it merely enables us to sit down in self-confidence...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Return, O Lord,.... Either from the fierceness of thine anger, according to Aben Ezra and Jarchi; of which complaint is made, Psalms 90:7, or unto us, from whom he had departed; for though God is everywhere, as to his being and immensity, yet, as to his gracious presence, he is not; and where that is, he sometimes withdraws it; and when he visits...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Return, O LORD, how long? and let it repent thee concerning thy servants. O satisfy us early with thy mercy; that we may rejoice and be glad all our days. “If they are but few, yet let them be happy. Give us an abundance of thy mercy, O Lord, and let us have it at once, so that, however few our days may he, every one of them may be spent in the...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Return, O LORD, how long? It is an earnest prayer, full of grief. The prophet of Israel, Moses, was attending one continual funeral. Whenever the tribes halted, they formed a cemetery, and buried another legion of their dead. I do not wonder that he prays, “Return, O Lord, how long?”
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And let it repent thee concerning thy servants. O satisfy us early with thy mercy: that we may rejoice and be glad all our days. If they be but few, help us to live happily in them. Grant us the art of thy grace of knowing thyself, the source of happiness, that we may drink of bliss to the full.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Return, O LORD, how long? and let it repent thee concerning thy servants. O satisfy us early with thy mercy; that we may rejoice and be glad all our days. Dear young people, here is a suitable prayer for you to present to God: “O satisfy us early with thy mercy.” Believe me, there is no joy for a lad like that of loving the Lord Jesus Christ while...