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Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Remove thy stroke away from me: I am consumed by the blow of thine hand. When thou with rebukes dost correct man for iniquity, thou makest his beauty to consume away like a moth: surely every man is vanity. Selah. Hear my prayer, O Lord, and give ear unto my cry; hold not thy peace at my tears: Tears have ever had great prevalence with God. Christ...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
When thou with rebukes dost correct man for iniquity, thou makest his beauty to consume away like a moth: As a moth eats up the fur or the cloth, and spoils it, so, when God’s corrections come upon us, our beauty is soon gone. Poor beauty it must be that can so soon go. Lord, let thy beauty be upon us, for no moth can ever eat into that!...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
When thou with rebukes dost correct man for iniquity, thou makest his beauty to consume away like a moth: Stout, he is reduced to a shadow, comely and beautiful he is wrinkled, and looks like a skeleton, joyful and blithe, he ends his day in mourning. Ah, dear friends, we who have joy, and calm, and peace, ought to be very grateful! Praise God...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Surely every man is vanity. Selah. Hear my prayer, O LORD, “If I cannot do anything else, I can pray, and I will pray.” That is the best relief that mourners have: “Hear my prayer, O Lord.”
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
When thou with rebukes dost correct man for iniquity, thou makest his beauty to consume away like a moth: surely every man is vanity. Selah. When God whips his children, he does not play with them. God is in earnest, if we are not; and when he corrects us, he means us to feel his rod, and he means us to bear the scars it leaves upon us. There must...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Hear my prayer, O LORD, and give ear unto my cry; See how David’s “prayer” grows into a “cry.” It deepens in intensity; there is more power in a cry than in an ordinary prayer, it shows more earnestness, and implies greater urgency: “Hear my prayer, O Lord, and give ear unto my cry.” Psa_39:12. Hold not thy peace at my tears: That is a still more...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And give ear unto my cry; hold not thy peace at my tears: “Do not see me weeping, and yet refuse me comfort and relief. Do not, I pray thee, hear my cry, and yet turn thy back upon me.” Psa_39:12. For I am a stranger with thee, Notice, not a stranger to thee, but, “a stranger with thee. Thou art a stranger in thine own world, and I also am a...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Hear my prayer, O LORD, David is dumb, yet he prays, dumb as to complaints, but eloquent as to pleading with his God. Psa_39:12. And give ear unto my cry; — The psalmist goes from pleading to crying, and believers often thus intensify their prayers. There is something more sorrowful, more earnest, more prevalent, about crying unto God than mere...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For I am a stranger with thee, and a sojourner, as all my fathers were. “I am not a stranger to thee, O my God! Blessed be thy holy name, I know thee well; but ‘I am a stranger with thee.’ Thou art a stranger in shine own world, and so am I. The world knows thee not, and the world knows me not; and when I act as thou actest, the world hateth me...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
O spare me, — “Deal gently with me; do not break me in pieces. If thou must needs smite me, yet do not altogether crush me. O spare me,” — Psa_39:13. That I may recover strength, before I go hence, and be no more. “Let me be able to take a little nourishment, and to gather my faculties together yet again, that I may sing to thee some sweeter hymn...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
O spare me, that I may recover strength, before I go hence, and be no more. There is much sweet comfort here, though the Psalm reads like a dirge, rather than a hymn. God give us, if we are obliged to sing such words as these, to sing them with a full belief that the Lord will hear us, and will bless our trials to us, and make them work our...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
O spare me, — That is a singular petition, for just now, he seemed to be wanting to get to the end of his days; yet he says, “O spare me,” like Elias, who was afraid to die, and so ran away from Jezebel, and then prayed to God, “Let me die.” So are God’s children still a mass of contradictions, longing for death, and yet, when death comes, they...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
O spare me, that I may recover strength, before I go hence, and be no more.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I waited patiently for the LORD; and he inclined unto me, and heard my cry. You and I can say that, so could our Divine Master. Oh the wondrous patience of the Lord Jesus Christ in prayer! In that agony in the garden when the bloody sweat showed how great were the wrestlings of his spirit he could then say, “I waited patiently for Jehovah, and he...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I waited patiently for the LORD; and he inclined unto me, and heard my cry. He brought me up also out of an horrible pit, out of the miry clay, and set my feet upon a rock, and established my goings. God does nothing by halves; if he brings people up out of their sorrow, or their sin, he takes care that their feet shall not slip back again into...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I waited patiently for the Lord; and he inclined unto me, and heard my cry. “I waited.” Do not beggars wait long at a fellow-creature’s door for some pitiful alms, and should not I be content to linger at Mercy’s gate for such great boons as I am craving? “I waited patiently.” Well may we tarry in patience till Jehovah’s time to help, since we...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
He brought me up also out of an horrible pit, out of the miry clay, and set my feet upon a rock, and established my goings. We can say that too. We remember when we were deep down in the mire, when we found it impossible to rise, for the more we struggled the more we sank. It was clay under us, miry clay. We could not hope for a rescue, but the...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
He brought me up also out of an horrible pit, out of the miry clay, and set my feet upon a rock, and established my goings. This is a wonderful song, full of rapturous joy. You know how Orientals were accustomed to cast their prisoners into pits, and those pits were often horribly deep, and dark, and damp; and the mud at the bottom would be such...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And he hath put a new song in my mouth, even praise unto our God: many shall see it, and fear, and shall trust in the LORD. Well, God has done that for you and for me; he has put a new song into our mouth which Satan cannot take out of it, and we are singing it today, and others who hear it shall be encouraged to trust in God. But is this true of...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And he hath put a new song in my mouth, — Such a song as I never sang before; for I had never been in such trouble before, and therefore had never experienced such a deliverance as the Lord has now granted to me. “He hath put a new song in my mouth.” With that sweet songstress, Ann Letitia Waring, I can say, — “My heart is resting, O my God; I...