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Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I will be glad and rejoice in thee: I will sing praise to thy name, O thou most High. Get thee up, then, my soul, out of the dark places of thy despondency. Rise, my drooping spirit, to something higher and better. If thou canst not be glad in anything else, be glad in thy God, — be glad that thou hast a God, and such a God, and that he is thy God...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
When mine enemies are turned back, they shall fall and perish at thy presence. As much as to say, “The presence of God is quite enough to make my adversaries flee, — yea, and utterly to cut them off.” As John Wesley said, “The best of all is, God is with us;” and if God be with us, it matters little to us who are against us.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For thou hast maintained my right and my cause; thou satest in the throne judging right. One of our noblemen has this for his motto, “I will maintain it;” but the Christian has a far better one: “Thou hast maintained my right.” If David sang thus after he had hurled the stone from his sling into Goliath’s skull, he might well magnify the name of...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Thou hast rebuked the heathen, thou hast destroyed the wicked, thou hast put out their name for ever and ever. O thou enemy, — You can conceive of David, standing on the prostrate form of his fallen foe, and looking on that gigantic countenance and those mighty limbs, crying out, “O thou enemy,” —
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Destructions are come to a perpetual end: and thou hast destroyed cities, their memorial is perished with them. But the Lord shall endure for ever: he hath prepared his throne for judgment. “Thou hast destroyed cities,” but thou couldst not destroy God. When thou didst defy the armies of other nations, thou couldst easily put them to rout, but...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And he shall judge the world in righteousness, he shall minister judgment to the people in uprightness. The LORD also will be a refuge for the oppressed, a refuge in times of trouble. And they that know thy name will put their trust in thee: The basis of faith is knowledge, and there is no knowledge like that which comes from experience. If you...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For thou, LORD, hast not forsaken them that seek thee. Sing praises to the LORD, which dwelleth in Zion: declare among the people his doings. When he maketh inquisition for blood, he remembereth them: When the great Coroner’s inquest shall be held upon all who have wrongly suffered, the commission will open by an enquiry concerning the blood of...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
He forgetteth not the cry of the humble. Is there not consolation in these words for some of you? You have been humbled, and brought down from your high place; now then, is your time to cry; and when you do so, you will prove that “he forgetteth not the cry of the humble.” There are many, who give heed to the petitions of their needy...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Have mercy upon me, O Lord; — What a blessed prayer that is, — a prayer useful on all occasions, — under a sense of sin, or under a load of sorrow, — burdened with labour, or crushed with despondency. It is a prayer which is like the cherubim’s sword, which turned every way; you may use it as you will: “Have mercy upon me, O Lord;” — Psa_9:13....
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
That I may shew forth all thy praise in the gates of the daughter of Zion: From the gates of death to the gates of Zion, is the lift which God gives to his poor suffering people.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I will rejoice in thy salvation. The heathen are sunk down in the pit that they made: If you picture David with the carcase of the giant before him, the Philistines put to ignominious flight, and the Israelites in full pursuit after them, you can understand his saying, “The heathen are sunk down in the pit that they made.”
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
In the net which they hid is their own foot taken. The LORD known by the judgment which he executeth: the wicked is snared in the work of his own hands. Higgaion. Selah. The probable meaning of these words is, “Consider and pause.” They are musical rests, perhaps; but they also suggest to us how well it is, in our reading of the Scriptures,...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
The wicked shall be turned into hell, and all the nations that forget God. Even if they are not outwardly as wicked as other men are, yet their forgetfulness of God is the highest form of injustice to him; it is treason against the majesty of heaven; it is robbing God of what is his right; it is a combination of everything that is evil.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For the needy shall not alway be forgotten: the expectation of the poor shall not perish for ever. Arise, O LORD, let not man prevail: let the heathen be judged in thy sight. Put them in fear, O LORD: that the nations may know themselves to be but men. They boast that they are men, and that they quit themselves like men. Yet let them know that,...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Selah. Pause again, think over what we have been reading, and lift up your heart in prayer to God, seeking the aid of the Holy Spirit to apply the truth to your soul.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Help, LORD; for the godly man ceaseth; for the faithful fail from among the children of men. One might have thought that David still lived among us, his cry is so timely, so exactly true to the position of affairs today. What a prayer he offers! Driven away from confidence in men, he cries, “Help, Lord! Thou mighty One, put forth thy power! Thou...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Help, LORD; for the godly man ceaseth; for the faithful fail from among the children of men. The Psalm speaks of a very discouraging time, and records a very dreary fact, but the psalmist is wise, and turns to God with that short, sententious prayer, “Help, Lord.”
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
They speak vanity every one with his neighbour: with flattering lips and with a double heart do they speak. They speak vanity; there is nothing in it. It is all froth, no reality; vain speech about vain subjects, having no real spiritual power to help the man that heareth: “They speak vanity.” “With a double heart do they speak:” saying one thing,...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
They speak vanity every one with his neighbour: with flattering lips and with a double heart do they speak. The LORD shall cut off all flattering lips, and the tongue that speaketh proud things: They will not be able to continue speaking falsely and proudly for over; a shovelful of earth from the grave-digger’s spade will silence them, and a...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
The LORD shall cut off all flattering lips, and the tongue that speaketh proud things: who have said, With our tongue will we prevail; our lips are our own: who is lord over us? There is the point in dispute. Man will be lord of himself, and God will be Lord of all and everything; and there can be no compromise between these two. Not even a man’s...