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Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For mine iniquities are gone over mine head: David was like a man who has sunk seven fathoms deep. Big waves of iniquity rolled over him, and he saw no light, no hope, no way of escape. Psa_38:4. As an heavy burden they are too heavy for me. It is a great mercy when sin is a burden; for, when it becomes too heavy for us to bear, Christ will bear...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For mine iniquities are gone over mine head: as an heavy burden they are too heavy for me. My wounds stink and are corrupt because of my foolishness. David had some painful old sores; I mean, old sins; and they seem to have broken out again and again, and when he wrote this Psalm, he was groaning in his spirit at the remembrance of them. His faith...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
My wounds stink and are corrupt because of my foolishness. He got to be so bad that he could not bear himself. His sorrow on account of his folly had made him feel as if he was a corrupt being, like one suffering with a foul cancer, unfitted for the company of his fellows: “My wounds stink and are corrupt because of my foolishness.” As I read that...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I am troubled; I am bowed down greatly; I go mourning all the day long. I again remind you that this is a child of God, a man who had enjoyed the light of God’s countenance; and yet he was in this sad state. Do not utterly condemn yourselves, do not say that you are not the people of God, because you are troubled in heart; but if you really are...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I am troubled; I am bowed down greatly; I go mourning all the day long. Yet he was a true child of God all the while, for this is, according to its title, “A Psalm of David,” concerning whom the Lord said “I have found David the son of Jesse, a man after mine own heart, which shall fulfill all my will.” God’s flowers do not have sunlight...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For my loins are filled with a loathsome disease: and there is no soundness in my flesh. I am feeble and sore broken: I have roared by reason of the disquietness of my heart. Lord, all my desire is before thee; The first beam of comfort comes in here. “Lord, I am almost at death’s door, yet thou knowest my desire; I do not love sin, I wish to be a...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For my loins are filled with a loathsome disease: and there is no soundness in my flesh. I am feeble and sore broken: I have roared by reason of the disquietness of my heart. That is an expressive word that David uses: “I have roared.” He felt as if his prayers were more like the agonized cries of a wounded beast than the intelligent supplications...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And my groaning is not hid from thee. “I can hide my groaning in a measure from my fellow-creatures, I try to suppress my moans when anybody is near; but my groaning is not hid from thee.” Thank God, there is not a tear in any eye but God sees it, nor a groan in any heart but God hears it! Make much of this truth, and find sweet consolation in it.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
LORD, all my desire is before thee; and my groaning is not hid from thee. What a sweet, sweet truth that is! Happy is that man, who in the time of deepest darkness, can still grasp that truth and hold it fast. “Lord, my groaning is not hid from thee! I could only roar out my complaint, or groan it out; but thou couldst hear it just as well as if I...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
My heart panteth, That is the best sort of prayer in all the world, when there are no words, but in silence there is a panting and longing after God. We cannot explain what this panting is; but if you have ever seen a hunted stag panting for breath, you have some idea what David meant when he said, “My heart panteth.” Psa_38:10. My strength...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
As for the sight of mine eyes, it also is gone from me. My lovers and my friends stand aloof from my sore; and my kinsmen stand afar off. If you have ever had much trouble, you will find that your friends are rather scarce at such times. Friends are very much like swallows; they twitter about us in the summer, and they build their nests under our...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
My heart panteth, my strength faileth me: as for the light of mine eyes, it also is gone from me. My lovers and my friends stand aloof from my sore; and my kinsmen stand afar off. “Relatives and friends alike all get away from me as far as they can, for they cannot bear to be in such sorrowful company.”
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
They also that seek after my life lay snares for me: and they that seek my hurt speak mischievous things, and imagine deceits all the day long. But I, as a deaf man, heard not; and I was as a dumb man that openeth not his mouth. It is a fine thing, when you are slandered, not to hear it, and it is a better thing never to reply to it. I have always...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
They also that seek after my life lay snares for me: and they that seek my hurt speak mischievous things, and imagine deceits all the day long. But I, as a deaf man, heard not; and I was as a dumb man that openeth not his mouth. Although David was a tried man, he was, at least at that time, a wise man. God did not leave his servant to act or to...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Thus I was as a man that heareth not, and in whose mouth are no reproofs. For in thee, O LORD, do I hope: thou wilt hear, O Lord my God. So the psalmist, by his example, encourages you to take your troubles to God, and not to handle them yourselves. Spread them before him, and trust in him to deliver you in his own time and way.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Thus I was as a man that heareth not, and in whose mouth are no reproofs. For in thee, O LORD, do I hope: — What sublime faith there is here! It is easy to have faith in sunshiny weather, — to have faith when you have the least need of it. There are plenty of people, who fancy they are believing in God when everything is going well with them. It...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Thou wilt hear, O LORD my God. “Even if I do not hear thee, thou wilt hear me and if no man shall hear me, thou wilt hear my prayer, and answer my supplication.”
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For I said, Hear me, lest otherwise they should rejoice over me: when my foot slippeth, they magnify themselves against me. For I am ready to halt, and my sorrow is continually before me. For I will declare mine iniquity; I will be sorry for my sin. But mine enemies are lively, and they are strong; and they that hate me wrongfully are multiplied....
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For I said, Hear me, lest otherwise they should rejoice over me: when my foot slippeth, they magnify themselves against me. For I am ready to halt, and my sorrow is continually before me. For I will declare mine iniquity; I will be sorry for my sin. But mine enemies are lively, and they are strong: and they that hate me wrongfully are multiplied....
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Forsake me not, O Lord: O my God, be not far from me. Make haste to help me, O Lord my salvation. Now we shall see, as we read that wondrous 53rd chapter of Isaiah not a man of God in trouble, but the Son of God in trouble; and we shall see him also as a deaf man that heareth not, “and as a dumb man that openeth not his mouth.” This exposition...