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Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
My heart is sore pained within me: and the terrors of death are fallen upon me. I suppose that David may have written this after he had been driven out of Jerusalem by the party under the leadership of his son Absalom and Ahithophel. When it is all over he sings his song of dolour, and yet of confidence before his God. You know that our Lord Jesus...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Fearfulness and trembling are come upon me, and horror hath overwhelmed me. And I said, Oh that I had wings like a dove! for then would I fly away, and be at rest. If he could not have the wings of an eagle to fight out the conflict, he begged for the wings of a dove to fly from it. But what would you and I be if we had wings? Where could we go if...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Lo, then would I wander far off, and remain in the wilderness. Selah. Why, David had been in the wilderness, and then he sighed to get back to the temple of God; but such foolish creatures are we at our very wisest that we know not what we sigh for. It was good for David that he had not wings, and it is good for you that you cannot run away. God...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I would hasten my escape from the windy storm and tempest. But he that would fly away from slander must fly very fast. How can we escape it? That cruel tongue, that wicked tongue walks through the earth and smites with its sword the best of God’s people. Now, like a soldier, David prays as his Master would never pray.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Destroy, O Lord, and divide their tongues: for I have seen violence and strife in the city. That was not a bad prayer, for God heard it. He did divide their tongues. The counsels of the wicked were put to naught, and so they made a mistake, and David escaped through their divisions. I see not how a king driven from his throne and hunted by rebels,...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Day and night they go about upon the walls thereof: mischief also and sorrow are in the midst of it. Remember, Jerusalem was in the hands of a band of wicked men. Everywhere sin prevailed when David had quitted it.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Wickedness is in the midst thereof: deceit and guile depart not from her streets. For it was not an enemy that reproached me; then I could have borne it: neither was it he that hated me that did magnify himself against me; then I would have hid myself from him: Here you get to the center of David’s grief. Ahithophel had betrayed him, and here you...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
But it was thou, In the original it runs thus: “But thou.” The ardor of poetry is upon the Psalmist. He sees him: “Thou.” And he looks at him with indignation: “Thou.”
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
A man mine equal, my guide, and mine acquaintance. We took sweet counsel together, and walked unto the house of God in company. It is Ahithophel; it is Judas Iscariot; it is either; it is both. Oh! what a grief it is to be betrayed by one whom we have trusted, one whom we treated as our equal, one whom we followed as a trusted guide, one to whom...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Let death seize upon them, and let them go down quick into hell: for wickedness is in their dwellings, and among them. And this prayer also was heard, for Ahithephel was hanged with a rope, and Absalom without one; and their followers perished by thousands in the wood of Ephraim; and so God swept away the good man’s slanderers.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
As for me, What would I do? Plot against their plots, and set cunning against their cunning? No, not I.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I will call upon God; and the LORD shall save me. Evening, and morning, and at noon, will I pray, and cry aloud: and he shall hear my voice. He would pray often, but not too often. Where time sets her boundaries there are we to set up our altars: evening and morning, and at noon. It seems natural that our undertakings should be begun, continued,...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Be merciful unto me, O God for man would swallow me up; he fighting daily oppresseth me. “Man has no mercy upon me, but, O God, be thou merciful unto me! If thy justice doth for a while let loose mine enemies upon me, let thy mercy diminish their power over me, for they are very cruel. They would make a complete end of me if they could, devouring...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Be merciful unto me, O God: for man would swallow me up: he fighting daily oppresseth me. Mine enemies would daily swallow me up: for they be many that fight against me, O thou most High. David was in such peril from man that he cried to God to come to our rescue. Man was merciless to him, so he prayed, “Be merciful unto me, O God.” His enemies...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Mine enemies would daily swallow me up: for they be many that fight against me, O thou most High. What time I am afraid, I will trust in thee. In God I will praise his word, — David means, “Through his grace, I will praise his word,” for we cannot rightly praise God unless he gives us the grace to do it. To receive from God, is more easy for us;...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
What time I am afraid, I will trust in thee. He is a happy man who can trust in God when he is afraid, but he is still happier who can say, “I will trust, and not be afraid.”
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
; Psa_56:6. In God I have put my trust; I will not fear what flesh can do unto me. Every day they wrest my words: This is a common calamity of God’s servants and a common crime of the oppressors of God’s people in all ages: “They wrest my words:”
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
In God I will praise his word, in God I have put my trust; I will not fear what flesh can do unto me. The trusting soul is a singing soul, and it soon becomes a courageous soul. Faith in God drives out the fear of man: “In God I have put my trust; I will not fear what flesh can do unto me.”
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
All their thoughts are against me for evil. They gather themselves together, they hide themselves, they mark my steps, when they wait for my soul. “They watch to see if they can find some matter of accusation against me, or some opportunity for tempting me to turn aside from my God. ‘They mark my steps,’ as the huntsman follows the trail of the...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Every day they wrest my words: all their thoughts are against me for evil. They gather themselves together, they hide themselves, they mark my steps when they wait for my soul. David had many enemies, Saul, Doeg the Edomite, the Philistines, and some even in his own household, but all their malice and craft were in vain since the Lord was on his...