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Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For innumerable evils have compassed me about: mine iniquities have taken hold upon me, so that I am not able to look up; they are more than the hairs of mine head: therefore my heart faileth me. If that is the condition of any one whom I am addressing, be comforted by the remembrance that another has been along that dark road where you now are...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Be pleased, O LORD, to deliver me: O LORD, make haste to help me. You may pray like that and yet be a true believer, the man that is not in haste to be saved does not want to be saved at all. He that can put it off till tomorrow knows nothing about it. True believer when he is crying for mercy cries “My case is urgent, help me now, make haste to...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Be pleased, O LORD, to deliver me: O LORD, make haste to help me. Let them be ashamed and confounded together that seek after my soul to destroy it; let them be driven backward and put to shame that wish me evil. Let them be desolate for a reward of their shame that say unto me, Aha, aha. So will it surely be, for the enemies of God’s people are...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Be pleased, O Lord, to deliver me: O Lord, make haste to help me. Thus did David cry unto the Lord “out of the depths.” Imitate his example if you are in similar circumstances. Say, with good John Ryland,— “Out of the depths of doubt and fear, Depths of despair and grief, I cry; my voice, O Jesus, hear, And come to my relief!” 14—16. Let them be...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Let them be ashamed and confounded together that seek after my soul to destroy it; let them be driven backward and put to shame that wish me evil. Let them be desolate for a reward of their shame that say unto me, “Aha, aha.” Let all those that seek thee rejoice and be glad in thee: let such as love thy salvation say continually, The LORD be...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Let all those that seek thee rejoice and be glad in thee: let such as love thy salvation say continually, The LORD be magnified. Are you content to bear your present trial, dear friend, so that God may be magnified? Are you willing to be reduced, by infirmities and weaknesses, to a condition of absolute nothingness, so long as God is exalted? If...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Let such as love thy salvation say continually, The LORD be magnified. But I am poor and needy; yet the Lord thinketh upon me: thou art my help and my deliverer; make no tarrying, O my God. The Lord bless to us the reading of this precious portion of his Word, for his name’s sake! Amen.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
But I am poor and needy; A double expression for a poverty that is doubly felt; — perhaps, poor in temporals; certainly poor in spirituals; poor, and full of needs, yet with nothing to supply those needs: “I am poor and needy;” Psa_40:17. Yet — That is a blessed “yet” — Psa_40:17. The Lord thinketh upon me: That is enough for me; if he thinks upon...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Blessed is he that considereth the poor: the Lord will deliver him in time of trouble. David delivered others, and God will deliver him. When he is poor and needy, God will think upon him, even as he considered the poor and the needy when they cried unto him.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
The Lord will preserve him, and keep him alive; and he shall be blessed upon the earth: and thou wilt not deliver him unto the will of his enemies. The Lord will strengthen him upon the bed of languishing: thou wilt make all his bed in his sickness. God will be condescendingly gentle to such as are kind and gentle to the poor. If we love God...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I said, Lord, be merciful unto me: David had been very kind to the poor at all times; but when he gets into trouble, he does not plead that, he just mentions it, but the main stress of his pleading is quite in another direction, namely, for mercy: “I said, Lord be merciful unto me.”
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Heal my soul; for have sinned against thee. Mine enemies speak evil of me, When shall he die, and his name perish? But good men do not die to please wicked men, and sometimes, when the good men have been dead and buried, and their memory has been insulted by the wicked, they have risen up again in their posthumous influence. Good men live too long...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And if he come to see me, he speaketh vanity: his heart gathereth iniquity to itself; when he goeth abroad, he telleth it. Those are bad visitors to the sick who, when they speak, talk only nonsense or that which galls the sufferer; and then, when they go out, begin to tell an idle tale against him to his injury.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
All that hate me whisper together against me: against me do they devise my hurt. An evil disease, say they, cleaveth .fast unto him: and now that he lieth he shall rise up no more. Yea, mine own familiar friend, in whom I trusted, which did eat of my bread, hath lifted up his heel against me. Many a child of God has had his character whispered...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
But thou, O LORD, be merciful unto me, and raise me up, that I may requite them. By this I know that thou favourest me, because mine enemy doth not triumph over me. “He may think that he shall triumph over me, he may even begin in his mind to divide the spoil; but he shall never really get it: ‘Mine enemy doth not triumph over me.’”
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And as for me, thou upholdest me in mine integrity, and settest me before thy face for ever. Blessed be the LORD God of Israel from everlasting, and to everlasting. Amen, and Amen. That is the sick man’s praise; it is full of fervor and full of life. Let us never rob God of the revenue of his praises; let us not have such a cupboard love for him...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
As the hart panteth after the water brooks, so panteth my soul after thee, O God. It is the “hart” that panteth; and, in the Hebrew, the word is in the feminine. The old naturalists say that the female has greater thirst than the male, and that it shows it more, having more feebleness of body, and less power of endurance. The hart is said to be,...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
As the hart panteth after the water brooks, so panteth my soul after thee, O God. It is said that when they cannot find water, they sometimes let loose a hart, which, flying over the desert sand, by instinct seems to scent out the water-brook. If he cannot find it, however, the stag is subject to a burning thirst. He stands and pants. His sides...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
As the hart panteth after the water brooks, so panteth my soul after thee, O God. Hunted, hot, weary, thirsty! It must drink or die. You see the poor creature with the big tears in its eyes, with the sweat distilling from it, moving to and fro as it pants in its longing for the water, “ even so does our soul long after God.” I must have my God. I...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
As the hart panteth after the water brooks, so panteth my soul after thee, O God. “As the hart panteth” or “brayeth.” And if such be your soul’s panting after God, you shall have what you pant for. Sooner or later, God will manifest himself in grace to the man who cries after him in this fashion.