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Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I sink in deep mire, where there is no standing; I am come into deep waters where the floods overflow me. We had this text explained to us last Friday night, when the traveler told us he saw a man sink in the mud, almost swallowed up by it, till by a very desperate grasp of the beat he made his escape. Christ was, as it; were, sucked in by the...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I am weary of my crying: my throat is dried: He had been so long in the garden in that awful agony, with strong crying and tears.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Mine eyes fail while I wait for my God. They that hate me without a cause are more than the hairs of mine head: him now in the street being led away to Mount Calvary; a vast multitude has congregated there, all eager to see him die.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
They that would destroy me, being mine enemies wrongfully, are mighty: They have the Roman soldiers at their backs, while the mob applauds them. Psa_69:4. Then I restored that which I took not away. Christ did not take away our innocence, nor our safety, nor our honour, but he restored them all to us. He hath made us clean; he hath made us...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
O God, thou knowest my foolishness; and my sins are not hid from thee. These words are not applicable to our Lord, except so far as they may refer to our foolishness and to our sin, which we know were all laid on him; except that one commentator says that he is here speaking according to the manner of the people. They called him foolish; they...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Let not them that wait on thee, O Lord God of hosts, be ashamed for my sake: let not those who seek thee be confounded for my sake, O God of Israel. “Let not the shame of my cross destroy their faith; grant unto them such confidence in me that they may take up thy cross daily, and follow me: that they may even learn to say with my apostle, “God...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Because for thy sake I have borne reproach; shame hath covered my face. It was for his Father’s sake, that he might bring honour to Jehovah, that he thus suffered reproach. “Shame hath covered my face”—that face which is brighter than the sun, and which angels desire to gaze upon.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I am become a stranger unto my brethren, “Peter says he knows me not; all of them have forsaken me.”
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And an alien unto my mother’s children. For the zeal of thine house hath eaten me up, and the reproaches of them that reproached thee are fallen upon me. Every hard word that was spoken of the Father fell upon the Son: the iniquities which were rebellions against Jehovah all fell upon the Man of Nazareth.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
When I wept, and chastened my soul with fasting, that was to my reproach. That was scandal unto them.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I made sackcloth also my garment; and I became a proverb unto them. Just as Michael said of David, “How glorious did the King of Israel become in the eyes of his handmaidens.” out of mockery, so did they reproach Christ, “How glorious was the King of Israel, so daintily arrayed in a peasant’s robe, or stripped naked upon his cross.”
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
They that sit in the gate speak against me; The judges who there dispensed justice, the merchants who there trade their wares, the idlers who were there to loiter, to hear the news, these speak against me. Psa_69:12. And I became the song of the drunkard. They made ballads of him, we may understand that to mean; they issued lampoons; every now and...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
But as for me, my prayer is unto thee, O Lord, in an acceptable time: O God, in the multitude or thy mercy hear me, in the truth of thy salvation. Deliver me out of the mire, and let me not sink: let me be delivered from them that hate me, and out of the deep waters. Think you hear your Master as he silently prays this prayer in the streets of...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Let not the waterflood overflow me, neither let the deep swallow me up, and let not the pit shut her mouth upon me. Hear me, O Lord, for thy loving-kindness is good: turn unto me according to the multitude of thy tender mercies. And hide not thy face from thy servant; for if am in trouble: hear me speedily. Draw nigh unto my soul, and redeem it:...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And I am full of heaviness: and I looked for some to take pity, but there was none; and for comforters, but I found none. They gave me also gall for my meat; and in my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink. Now, let us read the incidents in the history of Christ, of which this Psalm is a sort of prophecy and exposition. This exposition consisted of...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
In thee, O LORD, do I put my trust: let me never be put to confusion. There is his trust, and there is his fear; his trust he dares to avow, his fear he turns into a prayer.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
In thee, O LORD, do I put my trust: let me never be put to confusion. “Stand by me, O Lord, for I only stand as thou upholdest me; and if thou shouldest leave me, after I have trusted in thee, what could I say or do? Therefore, O Jehovah, since I put my trust in thee, ‘let me never be put to confusion.’”
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
In thee, O LORD, do I put my trust: let me never be put to confusion. Deliver me in thy righteous, and cause me to escape: incline thine ear unto me, and save me. Be thou my strong habitation, whereunto I may continually resort: thou hast given commandment to save me; for thou art my rock and my fortress. Deliver me, O my God, out of the hand of...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Deliver me in thy righteousness, and cause me to escape: incline thine ear unto me, and save me. Be thou my strong habitation, whereunto I may continually resort: thou hast given commandment to save me; for thou art my rock and my fortress. “Be thou my strong habitation whereunto I may continually resort.” Not merely now and then a hiding-place in...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Deliver me in thy righteousness, and cause me to escape: “I am like a poor dove taken in a net, I cannot get away. Stretch out thine hand, O Lord, and tear the net, and so deliver me, and cause me to escape. I cannot do anything for myself, except pray to thee to deliver me.” Psa_71:2. Incline thine ear unto me, and save me. “My prayer is weak;...