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John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
O satisfy us early with thy mercy,.... Or "grace" (g); the means of grace, the God of all grace, and communion with him, Christ and his grace; things without which, souls hungry and thirsty, in a spiritual sense, cannot be satisfied; these will satisfy them, and nothing else; namely, the discoveries of the love of God, his pardoning grace and...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Make us glad according to the days wherein thou hast afflicted us,.... The days of affliction are times of sorrow; and days of prosperity make glad and joyful; and the psalmist here seems to desire an equal number of the one as of the other; not that an exact precise number of the one with the other is intended; but that there might be a proper...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Make us glad according to the days wherein thou hast afflicted us, and the years wherein we have seen evil. “Balance our sorrows with an equal weight of joys. Give us grace equivalent to our griefs; and if thou hast given to us a bitter cup of woe, now let us drink from the golden chalice of thy love, and so let our fainting spirits be refreshed.”
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Make us glad according to the days wherein thou hast afflicted us, and the years wherein we have seen evil. Give us measure for measure — sweets in bounty, according to the bitterness. Surely God has done more than this to some of us. We can bless his name because his love has abounded, and he has made our cup to run over with his goodness.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Make us glad according to the days wherein thou hast afflicted us, and the years wherein we have seen evil. Let thy work appear unto thy servants, and thy glory unto their children. And let the beauty of the LORD our God be upon us: and establish thou the work of our hands upon us; yea, the work of our hands establish thou it. This exposition...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Make us glad according to the days wherein thou hast afflicted us, and the years wherein we have seen evil. It is right, then, to pray for joy. Indeed, joy is so conspicuous a blessing to a Christian, it is so closely connected with the healthfulness of all his virtues that he should seek after it until he finds it.
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Let thy work appear unto thy servants,.... Either the work of Providence, in conducting the people of Israel through the wilderness, and bringing them into the land of Canaan; which God had promised to do for them, especially for their posterity, and therefore their "children" are particularly mentioned in the next clause; or the work of...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Let thy work appear unto thy servants, May we have grace to devote ourselves entirely to God’s service, and do the work which he has appointed us to do! Psa_90:16. And thy glory unto their children. If we may not live to see the success of our efforts, may our children see it! If the glory of that bright millennial age, which is certain to come in...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Let thy work appear unto thy servants, and thy glory unto their children. We will do the work, and the next generation shall have the glory, We will be content to wait, plodding on. Jesus will come by and by. “Let thy work appear to us; thy glory to our children.”
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Let thy work appear unto thy servants, and thy glory unto their children. “Lord, let us see thy work here! Oh, for thy name’s sake, take thy right hand out of thy bosom, and work mightily in our midst! Withdraw not the working of the Holy Ghost from us thy people! Let thy work of conversion, thy work of edification, thy work of the conquest of the...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
And let the beauty of the Lord our God be upon us,.... Either the grace and favour of God, his gracious presence vouchsafed in his ordinances, which makes his tabernacles amiable and lovely, and his ways of pleasantness; or the righteousness of Christ, which is that comeliness he puts upon his people, whereby they become a perfection of beauty; or...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And let the beauty of the LORD our God be upon us: and establish thou the work of our hands upon us; Even if we die, let our work live. May there be something permanent remaining after we are gone; — not wood, hay, and stubble, which the fire will consume; but a building of gold, silver, and precious stones which will endure the fire that, sooner...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And let the beauty of the LORD our god be upon us: and establish thou the work of our hands upon us: That, if we must go, we may do something that will live that we may not have lived in vain. “Establish thou the work of our hands upon us.” Psa_90:17. Yea, the work of our hands establish thou it. It is my daily prayer. My heart goes up to heaven...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And let the beauty of the LORD our God be upon us: and establish thou the work of our hands upon us; yea, the work of our hands establish thou it. “Let not what we do for thee fall to the ground like a badly-built wall! Let not our work be consumed in the great testing fire, ‘but the work of our hands establish thou it!’” This exposition consisted...