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Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
My soul hath kept thy testimonies; and I love them exceedingly. I have kept thy precepts and thy testimonies: for all my ways are before thee. No man will ever take comfort in this, if he is not a renewed man, for to know that all our ways are before God is ground for great distress if we are ungodly — if we are walking contrary to his mind; but...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
My soul hath kept thy testimonies; and I love them exceedingly. I have kept thy precepts and thy testimonies: for all my ways are before thee.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
My soul hath kept thy testimonies; and I love them exceedingly. I have kept thy precepts and thy testimonies: for all my ways are before thee. Let my cry come near before thee, O LORD: give me understanding according to thy word. Let my supplication come before thee: deliver me according to thy word. My lips shall utter praise, when thou hast...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
In my distress I cried unto the LORD, and he heard me. Slander occasions distress of the most grievous kind. Those who have felt the edge of a cruel tongue know assuredly that it is sharper than the sword. Calumny rouses our indignation by a sense of injustice, and yet we find ourselves helpless to fight with the evil, or to act in our own...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Deliver my soul, O LORD, from lying lips, and from a deceitful tongue. Lips are soft; but when they are “lying lips” they suck away the life of character and are as murderous as razors. Lips should never be red with the blood of honest men’s reputes, nor salved with malicious falsehoods. The faculty of speech becomes a curse when it is degraded...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
What shall be given unto thee? or what shall be done unto thee, thou false tongue? The Psalmist seems lost to suggest a fitting punishment. It is the worst of offences — this detraction, calumny, and slander. Judgment sharp and crushing would be measured out to it if men were visited for their transgressions. But what punishment could be heavy...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I will lift up mine eyes unto the hills, from whence cometh my help. It is wise to look to the strong for strength. Dwellers in valleys are subject to many disorders for which there is no cure but a sojourn in the uplands, and it is well when they shake off their lethargy and resolve upon a climb. The holy man who here sings a choice sonnet looked...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I will lift up mine eyes unto the hills, from whence cometh my help. No help comes from anywhere else but from the eternal hills. Let us lift up our eyes, therefore, hopefully expecting help from the hills; it is on the road, it “cometh.” The psalmist with the eye of faith could see it coming, so he watched its approach.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
My help cometh from the LORD, which made heaven and earth. What we need is help, — help powerful, efficient, constant: we need a very present help in trouble. What a mercy that we have it in our God. Our hope is in Jehovah, for our help comes from him. Help is on the road and will not fail to reach us in due time, for he who sends it to us was...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
My help cometh from the LORD, which made heaven and earth. He would sooner unmake them than desert his people. He that made heaven and earth could certainly find shelter for us either in heaven or in earth. He cannot, he will not leave us, he will make room for us in heaven when there is no room for us here. What a blessed thing it is to look...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
He will not suffer thy foot to be moved: he that keepeth thee will not slumber. Though the paths of life are dangerous and difficult, yet we shall stand fast, for Jehovah will not permit our feet to slide, and if he will not suffer it we shall not suffer it. If our foot will be thus kept we may be sure that our head and heart will be preserved...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
He will not suffer thy foot to be moved: He will not endure it, he will not suffer it. Many would like to trip thee up; but he will not allow it, he loves thee too well. Psa_121:3. He that keepeth thee will not slumber. Thou mayest slumber, for thou art frail, but he is a Watchman to whose eyes sleep never comes. You are always safe. Alexander...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Behold, he that keepeth Israel shall neither slumber nor sleep. The consoling truth must be repeated: it is too rich to be dismissed in a single line. It were well if we always imitated the sweet singer, and would dwell a little upon a choice doctrine, sucking the honey from it. What a glorious title is in the Hebrew — “The keeper of Israel,” and...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Behold, he that keepeth Israel shall neither slumber nor sleep. Behold it, that is, mark it; put a nota bene at the side of it, take cognizance of this as a great and sure truth. Jacob went to sleep with a stone for his pillow, but he that kept him did not sleep; he came to him in the night-watches, and revealed to him his covenant.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
The LORD is thy keeper: the LORD is thy shade upon thy right hand. Here the preserving One who had been spoken of by pronouns in the two previous verses, is distinctly named — Jehovah is thy keeper. What a mint of meaning lies here: the sentence is a mass of bullion, and when coined and stamped with the king’s name it will bear all our expenses...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
The Lord is thy keeper: the LORD is thy shade upon thy right hand. Oh, what a keeper we have! Can you not trust him? Will you not be at peace in your mind if it be indeed true that Jehovah keeps you, and is your guard in the hour of danger?
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
The sun shall not smite thee by day, nor the moon by night. None but the Lord could shelter us from these tremendous forces. There are dangers of the light and of the dark, but in both and from both we shall be preserved — literally from excessive heat and from baneful chills; mystically from any injurious effects which might follow from doctrine...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
The sun shall not smite thee by day, nor the moon by night. Then, when canst thou get hurt? If thou art protected both day and night, these make up all the time. God does not make a new sun for his people, the sun would smite us as well as others, but he takes the sting out of the sun’s excessive brightness: and we have the same sickly moon as...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
The LORD shall preserve thee from all evil: he shall preserve thy soul. It is a great pity that our admirable translation did not keep to the word “keep” all through the psalm, for all along it is one. God not only keeps his own in all evil times but from all evil influences and operations, yea, from evils themselves. This is a far-reaching word...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
The LORD shall preserve thee from all evil: he shall preserve thy soul. That is the soul of our preservation; if the life, the soul, be kept, then are we kept altogether.