277 matching verse commentaries
Spurgeon - Treasury of David - Charles H. Spurgeon
Ver. 16. Jehovah is known by the judgment which he executeth; his holiness and abhorrence of sin is thus displayed. A ruler who winked at evil would soon be known by all his subjects to be evil himself, and he, on the other hand, who is severely just in judgment reveals his own nature thereby. So long as our God is God, he will not, he cannot...
Spurgeon - Treasury of David - Charles H. Spurgeon
Ver. 17. The justice which has punished the wicked, and preserved the righteous, remains the same, and therefore in days to come, retribution will surely be meted out. How solemn is Psa_9:17, especially in its warning to forgetters of God. The moral who are not devout, the honest who are not prayerful, the benevolent who are not believing, the...
Spurgeon - Treasury of David - Charles H. Spurgeon
Ver. 18. Mercy is as ready to her work as ever justice can be. Needy souls fear that they are forgotten; well, if it be so, let them rejoice that they shall not alway be so. Satan tells poor tremblers that their hope shall perish, but they have here the divine assurance that their expectation shall not perish for ever. "The Lord's people are a...
Spurgeon - Treasury of David - Charles H. Spurgeon
Ver. 19. Prayers are the believer's weapons of war. When the battle is too hard for us, we call in our great ally, who, as it were, lies in ambush until faith gives the signal by crying out, Arise, O Lord. Although our cause be all but lost, it shall be soon won again, if the Almighty doth but bestir himself. He will not suffer man to prevail over...
Spurgeon - Treasury of David - Charles H. Spurgeon
Ver. 20. One would think that men would not grow so vain as to deny themselves to be but men, but it appears to be a lesson which only a divine schoolmaster can teach to some proud spirits. Crowns leave their wearers but men, degrees of eminent learning make their owners not more than men, valour and conquest cannot elevate beyond the dead level...
Spurgeon - Treasury of David - Charles H. Spurgeon
Ver. 1. To the tearful eye of the sufferer the Lord seemed to stand still, as if he calmly looked on, and did not sympathize with his afflicted one. Nay, more, the Lord appeared to be afar off, no longer "a very present help in trouble, "but an inaccessible mountain, into which no man would be able to climb. The presence of God is the joy of his...
Spurgeon - Treasury of David - Charles H. Spurgeon
Ver. 2. The second verse contains the formal indictment against the wicked: The wicked in his pride doth persecute the poor. The accusation divides itself into two distinct charges, — pride and tyranny; the one the root and cause of the other. The second sentence is the humble petition of the oppressed: Let them be taken in the devices that they...
Spurgeon - Treasury of David - Charles H. Spurgeon
Ver. 3. The indictment being read, and the petition presented, the evidence is now heard upon the first count. The evidence is very full and conclusive upon the matter of pride, and no jury could hesitate to give a verdict against the prisoner at the bar. Let us, however, hear the witnesses one by one. The first testifies that he is a boaster. For...
Spurgeon - Treasury of David - Charles H. Spurgeon
Ver. 4. The proud boastings and lewd blessings of the wicked have been received in evidence against him, and now his own face confirms the accusation, and his empty closet cries aloud against him. The wicked, through the pride of his countenance, will not seek after God. Proud hearts breed proud looks and stiff knees. It is an admirable...
Spurgeon - Treasury of David - Charles H. Spurgeon
Ver. 5. His ways are always grievous. To himself they are hard. Men go a rough road when they go to hell. God has hedged up the way of sin: O what folly to leap these hedges and fall among the thorns! To others, also, his ways cause much sorrow and vexation; but what cares he? He sits like the idol god upon his monstrous car, utterly regardless of...
Spurgeon - Treasury of David - Charles H. Spurgeon
Ver. 6. The testimony of the sixth verse concludes the evidence against the prisoner upon the first charge of pride, and certainly it is conclusive in the highest degree. The present witness has been prying into the secret chambers of the heart, and has come to tell us what he has heard. He hath said in his heart, I shall not be moved: for I shall...
Spurgeon - Treasury of David - Charles H. Spurgeon
Ver. 7. Let us now hear the witnesses in court. Let the wretch speak for himself, for out of his own mouth he will be condemned. His mouth is full of cursing and deceit and fraud. There is not only a little evil there, but his mouth is full of it. A three headed serpent hath stowed away its coils and venom within the den of its black mouth. There...
Spurgeon - Treasury of David - Charles H. Spurgeon
Ver. 8. Despite the bragging of this base wretch, it seems that he is as cowardly as he is cruel. He sitteth in the lurking places of the villages: in the secret places doth he murder the innocent: his eyes are privily set against the poor. He acts the part of the highwayman, who springs upon the unsuspecting traveller in some desolate part of the...
Spurgeon - Treasury of David - Charles H. Spurgeon
Ver. 9. The picture becomes blacker, for here is the cunning of the lion, and of the huntsman, as well as the stealthiness of the robber. Surely there are some men who come up to the very letter of this description. With watching, perversion, slander, whispering, and false swearing, they ruin the character of the righteous, and murder the...
Spurgeon - Treasury of David - Charles H. Spurgeon
Ver. 10. He croucheth and humbleth himself, that the poor may fall by his strong ones. Seeming humility is often armour bearer to malice. The lion crouches that he may leap with the greater force, and bring down his strong limbs upon his prey. When a wolf was old, and had tasted human blood, the old Saxon cried, "Ware, wolf!" and we may cry, "Ware...
Spurgeon - Treasury of David - Charles H. Spurgeon
Ver. 11. As upon the former count, so upon this one; a witness is forthcoming, who has been listening at the keyhole of the heart. Speak up, friend, and let us hear your story. He hath said in his heart, God hath forgotten: he hideth his face; he will never see it. This cruel man comforts himself with the idea that God is blind, or, at least,...
Spurgeon - Treasury of David - Charles H. Spurgeon
Ver. 14. This vile suggestion receives its answer in Psa_10:14. hast seen it; for thou beholdest mischief and spite, to requite it with thy hand. God is all eye to see, and all hand to punish his enemies. From Divine oversight there is no hiding, and from Divine justice there is no fleeing. Wanton mischief shall meet with woeful misery, and those...
Spurgeon - Treasury of David - Charles H. Spurgeon
Ver. 14-18. God delights to help the poor. He loves to take part with the best, though the weakest side. Contrary to the course of most, who when a controversy arises use to stand in a kind of indifference or neutrality, till they see which part is strongest, not which is most just. Now if there be any consideration (besides the cause) that draws...
Spurgeon - Treasury of David - Charles H. Spurgeon
Ver. 16-18. See Psalms on "Psa_10:18" for further information. EXPLANATORY NOTES AND QUAINT SAYINGS . 18. To judge the fatherless and the oppressed, etc. The tears of the poor fall down upon their cheeks, et ascendunt ad coelum, and go up to heaven and cry for vengeance before God, the judge of widows, the father of widows and orphans. Poor people...
Spurgeon - Treasury of David - Charles H. Spurgeon
Ver. 18. Man of the earth, etc. In the eighth Psalm (which is a circular Psalm, ending as it did begin, "O Lord our God, how excellent is thy name in all the world!" That whithersoever we turn our eyes, upwards or downwards, we may see ourselves beset with his glory round about), how doth the prophet base and discountenance the nature and whole...