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Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
The LORD is on my side; I will not fear: what can man do unto me? The past always gives us assurance for the future, for we are dealing with the same unchangeable God, and, therefore, we may expect to have the same dealings from him.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
The LORD taketh my part with them that help me: therefore shall I see my desire upon them that hate me. It is better to trust in the LORD than to put confidence in man. It is better to trust in the LORD than to put confidence in princes. Now he goes on to detail his experience of trouble and of deliverance.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
The LORD taketh my part with them that help me: therefore shall I see my desire upon them that hate me. It is better to trust in the LORD than to put confidence in man. There is one text which I have never seen put up anywhere. You have illuminated texts in your houses and schoolrooms, and so on, but I think I have never seen this, “Cursed is he...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
It is better to trust in the LORD than to put confidence in princes. It is nobler, it is more agreeable to sound reason, it will lead to better results. God better deserves our confidence than the princes of the earth do — even the best of them.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
All nations compassed me about: but in the name of the LORD will I destroy them. David was a warrior. His business was to fight; and he was attacked on every side by all sorts of people. He was shut in, and the Lord was with him; and he broke his way through.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
All nations compassed me about: but in the name of the LORD will I destroy them. This may apply to David, but it applied better to Christ, around whom Jews and Gentiles came, but he won the victory over them.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
They compassed me about; yea, they compassed me about: but in the name of the LORD I will destroy them. They compassed me about like bees; they are quenched as the fire of thorns: Thorns crackle and blaze, and then it is all over with them. So it shall be with the adversaries of the believer. “ They are quenched as the fire of thorns, for in the...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
They compassed me about; yea, they compassed me about: but in the name of the LORD I will destroy them. They compassed me about like bees, they are quenched as the fire of thorns: for in the name of the LORD I will destroy them. The thorn makes a good blaze and crackle, and sputter, but it is soon out altogether. “For in the name of the Lord will...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For in the name of the LORD I will destroy them. Thou hast thrust sore at me that I might fall: “ Thou “: the same great and leading name.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
But the LORD helped me. The LORD is my strength and song, and is become my salvation. What a poet this man is. Thanksgiving is the tone of a true poet. When a man’s heart gets warm, and he begins to adore his God for his boundless mercy, the strain cannot grovel. Gratitude lends its wings better than the fabled Pegasus, and up the mind rises in a...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Thou hast thrust sore at me that I might fall: but the Lord helped me. This will rebut all the attacks of our fiercest foes — “But the Lord helped me.”
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
The LORD is my strength and song, and is become my salvation. The voice of rejoicing and salvation is in the tabernacles of the righteous: the right hand of the LORD doeth valiatly. Where God’s people dwell, there is the voice of joy. Their family prayer sanctifies the house with its joyous notes. Even then there is trouble and sorrow in the...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
The voice of rejoicing and salvation is in the tabernacle of the righteous: the right hand of the LORD doeth valiantly. The right hand of the LORD is exalted: the right hand of the LORD doeth valiantly. He drops into triplets. This is no accident. We meet with these triplets often in the Old Testament. Why three? Why not four? Ah, you know, who...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
The right hand of the LORD is exalted: the right hand of the LORD doeth valiantly. I shall not die, but live, and declare the works of the LORD. Some have thought this psalm was composed by Hezekiah after his sickness, and after the destruction of Senacherib’s host. It may be so. It has been used by many besides Hezekiah, who have not forgotten...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I shall not die, but live, and declare the works of the Lord. The LORD hath chastened me sore: You notice David’s rendering of the 13th verse. To the enemy he says, “ Thou hast thrust sore at me, that I might fall.” When he thinks it over he says, “The chastening hand of God is in this, even in my enemy’s wicked and malicious attacks. And so he...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
But he hath not given me over unto death. Open to me the gates of righteousness: I will go into them, and I will praise the LORD: this gate of the LORD, into which the righteous shall enter. I will praise thee: for thou hast heard me, and art become my salvation. Another grand verse. Answers to prayer are the notes of our music. If God has heard...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
The LORD hath chastened me sore: but he hath not given me over unto death. Many of his best children can say this, for “whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth.” “The Lord hath chastened me sore, but he hath not given me over unto death.” You that have recovered from sickness, here is a song for you. You who above all were not given over to your sins...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Open to me the gates of righteousness: I will go into them, and I will praise the LORD: This gate of the LORD, into which the righteous shall enter. I suppose he who uttered these words has passed through the beautiful gates of the temple.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I will praise thee: for thou hast heard me, and art become my salvation. Future, past, present — all full of blessing.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
The stone which the builders refused is become the head stone of the corner This is the LORD’S doing; it is marvelous in our eyes. The Jewish rulers would not have Christ. They cast him aside as a stone which would not fit their wall, especially because he was a corner stone. They wanted to stand as a lone solitary wall. They did not want to have...