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Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
All the kings of the earth shall praise thee, O Lord, when they hear the words of thy mouth. He felt that he had had such good things to say concerning God, such blessed words of God to make known, that even the kings of the earth, when they began to listen to him, would become attentive, and would even become converts, and begin to praise Jehovah...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Yea, they shall sing in the ways of the Lord: for great is the glory of the LORD. David was a king, and he danced before the ark, and he anticipated the time when other kings should not be ashamed of exuberant rejoicing in the King of kings. Oh, that it were come! May the Lord hasten it in his own time, and the choral hosts of heaven be swelled by...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Yea, they shall sing in the ways of the Lord: for great is the glory of the Lord. Think of that,— kings singing in the ways of the Lord, crowned princes becoming choristers in God’s service. Someone has said that there are few in heaven who wore crowns on earth; and I am afraid it is true that, of all who are crowned on earth, few ever get to that...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Though the LORD be high, yet hath he respect unto the lowly: That is a sweet text. One who was a scoffer met a humble child of God one morning, and he said to him, “Tell me, is your God a great God or a little God,” and the poor man said, “Sir, he is both, for, though he is so great that the heaven of heavens cannot contain him, yet he makes...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Though the LORD be high, yet hath he respect unto the lowly: but the proud he knoweth afar off. A glance of them is quite enough for him. He has no wish to know any more about them: he so hates them. Nothing can separate God from a soul so much as pride. It is that which causes the rejection of the gospel. Men will not have the humbling gospel —...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Though the Lord be high, yet hath he respect unto the lowly: but the proud he knoweth afar off. Though I walk in the midst of trouble, thou wilt revive me: — He was a king, yet he expected trouble; and do you complain when it comes to your cottage, after it had been to David’s palace? “Though I walk in the midst of trouble, thou wilt revive me:
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Though I walk in the midst of trouble, thou wilt revive me: He was a king but he had his trouble. A throne is not a place wherein we can shelter ourselves from trial. “Though I walk in the midst of trouble” —like a man that is to rush through a fire — “yet I shall be safe,” saith he “for thou wilt revive me — give me new life. When it seems as if...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Thou shalt stretch forth thine hand against the wrath of mine enemies, and thy right hand shall save. me. The LORD will perfect that which concerneth me: thy mercy, O LORD, endureth for ever: forsake not the works of thine own hands. Note the confident spirit that runs through all this. There is a childlike trust in God, and there is a gladsome...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Thou shalt stretch forth thine hand against the wrath of mine enemies, and thy right hand shall save me. He expected first to be revived, and afterwards to be protected. He believed that God would stretch out his hand, as men do when they make a supreme effort, and put forth all their force: “Thou shalt stretch forth thine hand against the wrath...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
The LORD will perfect that which concerneth me: “All that has to do with me — my business, my family, my work, my temporal and my eternal interests,— ‘that which concerneth me,’ and that which troubles me, moves my heart with the deepest concern, Jehovah will perfect.” Psa_138:8. Thy mercy, O LORD, endureth for ever: forsake not the works of thine...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
O LORD, thou hast searched me, and known me. “Thou hast explored me, as men dig in mines, and make subterranean excavations. Thou hast searched into my secret parts, and known me.”
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
O LORD, thou hast searched me, and known me. God does not need to “search” us, for that implies a want of knowledge, a knowledge obtained by search. But the meaning of the text is, that God knows us as well as if he had examined us through and through, just as an excise officer searches a house to find contraband goods. “O Lord, thou has searched...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
O LORD thou hast searched me, and known me. “Known me perfectly, far better than I know myself. Thou hast made an inquisition, and investigated every secret thing concerning me: ‘Thou hast searched me, and known me.’”
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
O LORD, thou hast searched me, and known me. It is true that God knows everything, but that is not what David says here. He makes a personal application of the universal truth: “O Lord, thou hast searched me, and known me.” He does not talk about God’s knowledge of other men, but he speaks to God concerning himself: “O Lord, thou hast searched me,...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
O Lord, thou hast searched me, and known me. Thou hast looked into my most secret parse. The most intricate labyrinths of my spirit are all observed of thee. Thou hast not searched, and yet been unable to discover the secret of my nature but thou hast searched me and known me. Thy search has been an efficient one, thou hast read the secrets of my...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Thou knowest my downsitting and mine uprising, “My simplest acts, those which I scarcely premeditated.” Psa_139:2. Thou understandest my thought afar off. “Before I think it, when I think it, and when I forget it, thou dost understand my every thought.”
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Thou knowest my downsitting, and mine uprising, “Such common-place things as these, my sitting down at home, my rising up to go to my business, thou, O Lord, dost observe and know even such minor matters as these.” Psa_139:2. Thou understandest my thought afar off. “Before the thought has entered my mind, thou knowest what it will be. When I run...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Thou knowest my downsitting and mine uprising, thou understandest my thought afar off. “Before I think it, while as yet it is not actually my thought, while it is still unformed, and far away, thou understandest it. Thou not only knowest what it is, but thou understandest it; — the motive from which it springs, the state of mind out of which it...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Thou knowest my downsitting and mine uprising, thou understandest my thought afar off. “What I do, and what I do not do; my downsitting for rest, and my uprising for action ; — thou knowest me altogether, my most trivial deeds, and my most important movements. My thoughts are so well known to thee that, even before I think them, thou knowest what...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Thou knowest my downsitting and mine uprising, thou understandest my thoughts afar off. It is a common enough thing to sit down and to rise up and I myself oftentimes scarce know why I do the one or the other, but thou knowest and understandest all. “Thou understandest my thought afar off.” My heart forms a thought that never comes to a word or an...