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Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I cried unto God with my voice, even unto God with my voice; and he gave ear unto me. The use of the voice in prayer is not essential; but usually, when men grow earnest, they use the voice as well as the mind. It was because of the intensity of his prayer that the psalmist felt compelled to cry, not to use stilted, stately language, but the...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I cried unto God with my voice, even unto God with my voice; and he gave ear unto me. It was only a cry; a cry monotonous, redoubled, and full of sorrow. Yet the Lord gave ear unto him who cried. There were some who would have stopped their ears, and have got out of the way, for the sound made them melancholy, and they could not bear it; but the...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I cried unto God with my voice, even unto God with my voice; and he gave ear unto me. You see, he cried, and he cried again, and at his second call the door of mercy was opened to him. God sometimes makes petitioners wait that they may become more earnest, and that they may really feel the value of the thing they are seeking. So Asaph says, “I...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I cried unto God with my voice, even unto God with my voice; and he gave ear unto me. The writer was in very deep trouble. The trouble forced from him a loud and bitter cry. His heart was wrung with anguish, but the cry which was the weakness of the flesh was, by divine grace, turned upward, and so became the strength of his grace. He cried, but...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
In the day of my trouble I sought the Lord: This is the best place to go in the day of your trouble. Psa_77:2. My sore ran in the night, A better rendering would be, My hand was stretched out in the night.” The psalmist continued to pray. Psa_77:2. And ceased not: my soul refused to be comforted. Rightly so, if the comfort came from man, if the...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
In the day of my trouble I sought the Lord: That was a very wise thing to do; where else should he go, in the day of trouble, but to him who sent the trouble, to him who could help him to bear the trouble, to him who could sanctify the trouble, to him who could, if he pleased, remove the trouble? “In the day of my trouble I sought the Lord.” I...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
My sore ran in the night, and ceased not: my soul refused to be comforted. I remembered God, and was troubled: ‘Yet he says that he sought God. It is a grand thing when your faith leads you to seek God, even though he troubles you. It is better to knock at God’s door when he is angry than to go to any other door. Even if he shuts the door in your...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
In the day of my trouble I sought the Lord: my sore ran in the night, and ceased not: my soul refused to be comforted. He could not sleep, so he took to prayer. Which is the greater mercy, —prayer or sleep, — I cannot say. In the psalmist’s case, I should suppose that prayer just then was better than sleep. His trouble so pressed upon him, that it...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
In the day of my trouble I sought the Lord: my sore ran in the night, and ceased not: my soul refused to be comforted. He would not take the common comfort which friendly words would have yielded him: his case was so desperate that he must have divine comfort, and nothing else. I will not be comforted till Jesus comfort me, and this is a very good...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I remembered God, and was troubled: What! trouble even from remembering God? Then this is trouble indeed. And yet this has been the experience of the saints of God many a time: I remembered God,” his holiness, his justice, my offenses against him, and was troubled.” Psa_77:3. I complained, and my spirit was overwhelmed. Turned over, overwhelmed;...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I complained, and my spirit was overwhelmed. Selah. Thou holdest mine eyes waking: I am so troubled that I cannot speak. I have considered the days of old, the years of ancient times. What God did with others of his people in their times of trouble, how he rescued them, the splendor of his power in the ages long since gone, —these are among the...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I remembered God, and was troubled: God is the fountain of all comfort, yet there are times when even a godly man can find no comfort in God. Asaph perhaps remembered the dark side of God’s attributes. Justice seemed to stand over him with a drawn sword. Holiness frowned upon him. Power threatened to crush him. Truth stood up to condemn him. He...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I remembered God, and was troubled: Yet it was the right thing to do to remember God — the most comfortable thing in the world, and though it failed at first, it did not fail in the long run, Psa_77:3. I complained, and my spirit was overwhelmed. It is no new thing, then, for the best of God’s people to be in the deepest trouble. The path which...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Selah. Thou holdest mine eyes waking: I am so troubled that I cannot speak. I have considered the days of old, the years of ancient times. Turned through the experience of thy people written in thy Word to see if ever thou didst forsake one of them.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Thou holdest mine eyes waking: I am so troubled that I cannot speak. Yet he was speaking; but it did not seem to him like speaking. It was rather an inarticulate wail than the language of a man.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Thou holdest mine eyes waking: I am so troubled that I cannot speak. You thought that the psalmist was going to say, “I cannot sleep.” He has given up the attempt to do that, so now he tries to talk; but utterance fails him. Shallow brooks sound as they flow, but deep griefs are still; and a man may be so troubled in heart that he cannot speak; he...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I have considered the days of old, the years of ancient times. A little holy history is good reading for a heavy heart. You will often stumble on a record of God’s providential dealings, or a paragraph concerning his wonderful love, that will cheer your heart. Yet it did not cheer the heart of the psalmist just then.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I have considered the days of old, the years of ancient times. I call to remembrance my song in the night. I commune with mine own heart: and my spirit made diligent search. He looked back into the records of ancient history to see if God did ever forsake a praying man. He thought upon his own experience, and he recollected how, when it was night...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I call to remembrance my song in the night: “How I used to sing like the nightingale, with the thorn at my breast, I call that to remembrance.” But we cannot always sing old songs. Old experiences may have but little fire in their ashes, though often in their ashes live their wonted fires. Psa_77:6. I commune with mine own, heart: A very proper...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I call to remembrance my song in the night- “How I was once like a nightingale, and learnt to sing with a thorn at my breast; how, in former times, I triumphed in the hour of trouble and affliction.” It is good to recollect all this; for, though past experience will not do to live upon, yet sometimes we are like the men with their barges when they...