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Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Have mercy upon us, O LORD, have mercy upon us: The longing soul does not wait in utter silence without expressing its desires. I have heard of some who have said that their will was so fully conformed to God’s will that they had left off praying to him, but surely that was a satanic delusion, for the will of Christ was perfectly conformed to that...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Our soul is exceedingly filled with the scorning of those that are at ease, and with the contempt of the proud. This was the lot of God’s people in David’s day; it is the same with believers now, and I suppose that, so long as the earth standeth, the saints of the Lord will have to cry unto him concerning their adversaries. Let them remember...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Our soul is exceedingly filled with the scorning of those that are at ease, and with the contempt of the proud. It does not seem to be a desirable thing to be at ease, for it was such people who were the scorners of the psalmist and his godly companions. Job also said, “He that is ready to slip with his feet is as a lamp despised in the thought of...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
If it had not been the LORD who was on our side, now may Israel say; There is a break here, the sentence is not finished, so finish it for yourselves. If the Lord had not been on your side, what then? You would have been condemned on account of sin. If the Lord had not been on your side as the Redeemer, you would have been left to perish through...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
If it had not been the LORD who was on our side, now may Israel say; if it had not been the LORD who was on our side, when men rose up against us: then they had swallowed us up quick, — That is, alive, —
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
If it had not been the LORD who was on our side, when men rose up against us: then they had swallowed us up quick, when their wrath was kindled against us: The word “quick” here means “living.” Before we were dead, they would have swallowed us up, for the anger of men against God’s people is always exceedingly great. They called the Master of the...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
When their wrath was kindled against us: If it had not been God who had engaged to take care of his people, they would all have perished, but that God must be Jehovah. I wish that our translators had not been carried away by the superstition of the Jews, and that they had used the word “Jehovah” where it is employed in the original. This verse and...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Then the waters had overwhelmed us, the stream had gone over our soul: then the proud waters had gone over our soul. Here, in this life, we may have troubles, not only from our own evil hearts, but also from Satan and from the world. Truly, if it had not been for the Lord, the proud waters had gone right over our souls. It is a wonder that we are...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Then the waters had overwhelmed us, the stream had gone over our soul: then the proud waters had gone over our soul. The figure is varied. We are first likened to the lamb that is liable to be swallowed by the lion, and next we are compared to one who is in danger of being carried away by a devouring flood, which shows no pity to any, but sweeps...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Blessed be the LORD, who hath not given us as a prey to their teeth. We were almost in their teeth, like David’s lamb; but David’s Son plucked us out of the jaws of the lion, and out of the paws of the bear. Now the psalmist uses another figure. First he spoke of the proud waters, then of the wild beasts, and now he mentions the fowlers.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Blessed be the LORD, who hath not given us as a prey to their teeth. Neither to Satan and his legions, nor to wicked men, has God delivered us. We are not to be their prey, for God claims us as his own.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Our soul is escaped as a bird out of the snare of the fowlers: the snare is broken, and we are escaped. Our help is in the name of the LORD, who made heaven and earth. What a blessed conclusion is it to our experience when we can sing of what the Lord has done, and so are encouraged by the all of what he will yet do! Let us write this text upon...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Our soul is escaped as a bird out of the snare of the fowlers: the snare is broken, and we are escaped. What a joyous song that is for the escaped soul to sing! Whenever a Christian man has fallen into difficulties through not walking uprightly when he has gone astray from the right path, and has been caught in the fowler’s net, and is in such...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Our help is in the name of the LORD, who made heaven and earth. This is a good lesson for us to learn from the past experience of the Lord’s people. God and God alone did deliver his servants in the past and herein is our confidence for the present and the future; — our help is in the name —the revealed and manifested character — of Jehovah, the...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
They that trust in the LORD shall be as mount Zion, which cannot be removed, but abideth for ever. Various conquerors have destroyed the buildings upon Mount Zion, but the mountain itself is still there. None have ever dug it up, and cast it into the Mediterranean Sea. It stands fast, and will stand there as long as the world endures; and “they...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
They that trust in the LORD shall be as mount Zion, which cannot be removed, but abideth for ever. I noticed, in one of the reports of the survey of Palestine, that it is said that, albeit every building upon Mount Zion has been demolished, and not one stone has been left upon another, yet the scarps of the hill are altogether immovable, and...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
They that trust in the LORD shall be us mount Zion, which cannot be removed, but abideth for ever. What comfort there is in this verse to all who trust in the Lord! We never expect to see anyone tear up mount Zion by the roots. The Romans have been there, and ploughed mount Zion as a field, but they could not remove it, it is there still, and the...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
They that trust in the Lord shall be as Mount Zion, which cannot be removed, but abideth for ever. As the mountains are round about Jerusalem, so the LORD is round about his people from henceforth even for ever. For the rod of the wicked shall not test upon the lot of the righteous; lest the righteous put forth their hands unto iniquity. By “the...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
As the mountains are round about Jerusalem, so the LORD is round about his people from henceforth even for ever. This verse shows the believer’s safety, as the former one showed his stability. As the mountains stood to guard the sacred city, so does God stand round about his people as a wall of fire. Before any can hurt the believer, they must...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
As the mountains are round about Jerusalem, so the LORD is round about his people from henceforth even for ever. Here is security as well as stability. The mountains stand like sentinels around the central hill of Zion, so the city is well guarded, and God protects his own people against adversaries of every kind, and he will continue to do so...