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Psalms 143:9-10

Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon

Deliver me, O Lord, from mine enemies: I flee unto thee to hide me. Teach me to do thy will; for thy art my God: thy spirit is good; lead me into the land of uprightness. Or “lead me in a straight path.” So it is rendered by the best scholars.

Psalms 143:10-11

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For thou art my God: thy spirit is good; lead me into the land of uprightness. Quicken me, O LORD, for thy name’s sake: for thy righteousness’ sake bring my soul out of trouble. What earnest pleading is this, and how powerful it is! Every word is so fitting that, if I had time to explain it, you would note the force and appropriateness of every...

Psalms 143:10-11

Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon

Lead me into the land of uprightness. Quicken me, O LORD, for thy name’s sake: Do not these prayers fit you, my brothers and sisters? Do you not feel as if you were being taught how to pray by the reading of this Psalm? I think it must be so at least with some of you.

Psalms 143:11-12

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For thy righteousness’ sake bring my soul out of trouble. And of thy mercy cut off mine enemies, and destroy all them that afflict my soul: for I am thy servant. We cannot join in the prayers in this verse just as it stands, for we live in another dispensation, in which we are taught to pray for our enemies, not against them; but as far as this...

Psalms 143:11

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Quicken me, O LORD, for thy name’s sake: Felt as if he should die, and, therefore, he says, “Quicken me: put new life into me.” To whom should we go for life, but to the living God, and who can communicate with us, but the same God who first made us live in his name.

Psalms 144:1

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Blessed be the LORD my strength, which teacheth my hand to war, and my fingers to fight: David does not ascribe any honour to himself. Human strength is from within, from the nerves, and sinews, and muscles, but the believer’s strength is from without: “Blessed be Jehovah my strength.” Now, if Jehovah be our strength, then nothing can be too...

Psalms 144:2

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My goodness, and my fortress; my high tower, and my deliverer; my shield, and he in whom I trust; Here are six names, or rather, five titles of God, and then an inference from them: “He in whom I trust.” Oh! I know, ye people of God, you can say of Jehovah, “He is the One in whom I trust.” Rely upon anyone else, and your hopes are doomed to...

Psalms 144:3

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LORD, what is man, that thou takest knowledge of him! or the son of man, that thou makest account of him! Have you not often felt like this? You have said, “Lord, how couldst thou have bestowed such favors upon me, so utterly unworthy, so insignificant, so unknown, so worthless? “What is man, that thou takest knowledge of him!”

Psalms 144:4

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Man is like to vanity: his days are as a shadow that passeth away. You know that a shadow is nothing; it is rather the absence of something than anything in itself. Shadow is the absence of light; and what is man but, as it were, the absence of light, the absence of anything that is substantial? He is but the fleeting shadow of some earthly...

Psalms 144:5

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Bow thy heavens, O LORD, and come down: touch the mountains, and they shall smoke. God did but set one foot upon Mount Sinai, and it became altogether on a smoke. “The hills melted like wax at the presence of the Lord.” Well, believer, you have many mountains; but you can ask God to “touch the mountains, and they shall smoke.” No matter what the...

Psalms 144:6-7

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Cast forth lightning, and scatter them: shoot out thine arrows, and destroy them. Send thine hand from above; rid me, and deliver me out of great waters, from the hand of strange children; Moses, you know, was called “one drawn out of the water”, so are all Gods people, they are drawn out of floods of tribulation. They are surrounded by those...

Psalms 144:8

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Whose mouth speaketh vanity, and their right hand is a right hand of falsehood. They swear, but they perjure themselves; they lift up the right hand, but they lie all the while. Rid me, O God, from such men; for, of all enemies, those that can lie are the worst, for you never know where you are with such people. Snakes in the grass are the most...

Psalms 144:9-11

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I will sing a new song unto thee, O God: upon a psaltery and an instrument of ten strings will I sing praises unto thee. It is he that giveth salvation unto kings: who delivereth David his servant from the hurtful sword. Rid me, and deliver me from the hand of strange children, whose mouth speaketh vanity, and their right hand is a right hand of...

Psalms 144:12

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That our sons may be as plants grown up in their youth; that our daughters may be as corner stones, polished after the similitude of a palace: Or, rather, “of a temple.” This should be the prayer of every parent, that his sons may be bringing forth fruit unto God, that his daughters may be fixed as polished stones in the Church of God, to form a...

Psalms 144:13

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That our garners may be full, affording all manner of store: When this is the case spiritually, when there is milk for babes, meat for strong men, and not a little of each, but more than enough for all, then are we very happy. Spiritual fertility is a blessed thing, when each Christian, each of the Lord’s sheep, becomes prolific in increasing...

Psalms 144:14

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That our oxen may be strong to labour; That the ministers of God may be mighty; that Sabbath-school teachers, and all earnest labourers, may have strength given to them. Psa_144:14. That there be no breaking in, nor going out; That there be no wolves to destroy by breaking in; and that there be no sheep to suffer injury by going astray....

Psalms 144:14-15

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That there be no complaining in our street. Happy is that people, that is in such a case: yea, happy is that people, whose God is the LORD. May this be our case! And if it is our case, then the Lord is our God even at this day. Psa_144:14-15. That there be no complaining in our streets. Happy is that people, that is in such a case: yea, happy is...

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