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Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I knew, O LORD, that thy judgments are right, and that thou in faithfulness hast afflicted me. We are glad to listen to a man who can tell us that, an old man, a tried man, who can say that God has been faithful in afflicting him, a man who, after having borne the brunt of tribulation, can yet bless God for it. Such testimonies as these are full...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Let, I pray thee, thy merciful kindness be for my comfort, according to thy word unto thy servant. “Lord,” he seems to say, “I have been a comfort to others; be thou a comfort to me. Thou hast made others glad to see me; make me glad with the recollection of all my experience of thy mercy: ‘Let, I pray thee, thy merciful kindness be for my...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Let thy tender mercies come unto me, that I may live: “I am so broken down, my bones are so full of pain, that if thou dost handle me roughly, I shall die: ‘Let thy tender mercies come unto me.’ I am like a poor flower whose stalk is almost broken through, ready to droop and die; let thy tender mercies bind me up, that I may live.” Psa_119:77. For...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Let the proud be ashamed; for they dealt perversely with me without a cause: but I will meditate in thy precepts. That is a delightful turning of the subject: “They dealt perversely with me, without a cause;” but David does not say, “I will envy the proud,” or, “I will be spiteful to them,” “I will fret myself because of them.” No; he seems to...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Let those that fear thee turn unto me, and those that have known thy testimonies. “Lord, make me such a man that they who fear thee may seek my acquaintance. Of thy great mercy grant that, if any of them have turned away from me through hearing slanderous reports about me, they may be inclined now to come back to me, for I love them, and I would...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Let my heart be sound in thy statutes; that I be not ashamed. When the heart is right with God, there will be no need to be ashamed. Though you may make some mistakes and blunders, because you are human, yet, if you are sincere, shame shall not overtake you. What a blessing it is to have a sound heart! But when the heart is spiritually unsound,...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
My soul fainteth for thy salvation: but I hope in thy word. What! faint and hoping, too? Yes, a Christian man is a wonder and a contradiction to many, and most of all to himself. He cannot understand himself; he faints, and yet he hopes. Two apparently opposite emotions may be at the same time in the Christian bosom. Every man is two men, if he is...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
My soul fainteth for thy salvation: but I hope in thy word. The psalmist was so full of longings, hungerings, thirstings, for God’s salvation that he had come even to faintness through the strength of his desire. Yet, in his faintness, he was not too far gone to hope; and we also have good ground for hoping and believing that God, who gave us his...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
My soul fainteth for thy salvation: but I hope in thy word. The ship rocks, but the anchor holds; the singer is ready to faint, but he is not ready to despair. He knows where his restoring will come.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Mine eyes fail for thy word, saying, When wilt thou comfort me? “I look for it till my eyes ache; I strain my eyes to see thy word, watching for it till my vision grows dull in waiting: ‘Mine eyes fail for thy word, saying.”’ Oh, then, his eyes could speak! Yes, eyes can say a great many things; and blessed are the eyes that have learned to say...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Mine eyes fail for thy word, saying, When wilt thou comfort me? He looked out for a message from God as the watchers of the night looked for the breaking of the morning. His eyes ached to behold the comforts of his God. Oh, blessed state of strong desire! I pray God that we may all experience it
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Mine eyes fail for thy word, saying, When wilt thou comfort me? What a mercy it is to have our eyes on God’s word, full as it is of blessing to be waiting till the blessing comes out of it! Mine eyes watch thy word, that is so full of the rain of comfort; and I say to myself, “When will it descend and refresh me? When will the clouds let fall...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For I am become like a bottle in the smoke; An old dried-up skin bottle, that is hung in the smoke of the tent over the fire, till it is wrinkled and cracked, and almost good for nothing. Psa_119:83. Yet do I not forget thy statutes. “Beauty is gone, strength is gone, comeliness is gone; but not my memory of thy word, O Lord.” What a mercy it is...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For I am become like a bottle in the smoke; yet do I not forget thy statutes. When an empty skin bottle was hung up in one of the smoky dwellings of the East, it became withered, cracked, useless; and the psalmist says, “‘I am become like a bottle in the smoke,’ — I seem to be good for nothing, withered, dried up; — ‘yet do I not forget thy...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For I am become like a bottle in the smoke; yet do I not forget thy statues. I feel dried up, besmeared and besmirched as with soot, my very beauty is gone from me, and my usefulness too. I am not fit to hold anything, but I have become like a skin bottle that is parched up; yet for all that I have a memory of thy word: the smoke and the heat have...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
How many are the days of thy servant? when wilt thou execute judgment on them that persecute me? “Lord, I have but a short life; let me not have a long affliction.” Does he mean, “Lord, I have lived too long in this miserable state; I wish my days were shortened”? We must not murmur at the length of our days, but we may plead that persecution may...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
How many are the days of thy servant? when wilt thou execute judgment on them that persecute me? “I am not going to live here for ever, Lord; let me not have to wait to be vindicated until I am in my grave. O my God, hasten the day of my deliverance!”
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
How many are the days of thy servant? when wilt thou execute judgment on them that persecute me? “How many are the days of thy servant;” or rather, how few they are be; not long in coming to me, lest I die whilst thou art still on the road.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
The proud have digged pits for me, which are not after thy law. It is not often that proud men take to digging; but here, you see, these children of the pit learn to dig pits for God’s people; and they have not given over the practice yet. Pits were dug in olden times to catch wild beasts; but now, often, the wicked dig pits to try to catch good...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
The proud have digged pits for me, which are not after thy law. All thy commandments are faithful: they persecute me wrongfully; help thou me. God’s Word is all true; the longer we test and try it, the more shall we find it to be worthy of our fullest confidence. Those who doubt its truth have never really proved its power. Those who mistrust it,...