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Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Thou hast put away mine acquaintance far from me; thou hast made me an abomination unto them: I am shut up, and I cannot come forth. This is the utterance of a soul imprisoned in solitary confinement, nobody able to come to it to breathe out consolation: “Thou hast put away mine acquaintance far from me. They cannot come to me, and I am shut up,...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Mine eye mourneth by reason of affliction: LORD, I have called daily upon thee, I have stretched out my hands unto thee. Now hear how the psalmist pleads with the Lord. Prayer is always best when it rises to pleading. The man who understands the sacred art of prayer becomes a special pleader with God.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Wilt thou shew wonders to the dead? shall the dead arise and praise thee? Selah. “Shall the dead arise, and praise thee?” Not in this life, though the godly will praise the Lord in the world to come. But now, when a Christian man dies, God loses a chorister from the choirs of earth, there is one the less to sing his praises here; and the psalmist...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Shall thy lovingkindness be declared in the grave? or thy faithfulness in destruction? Shalt thy wonders be known in the dark? and thy righteousness in the land of forgetfulness? He pleads that, if he dies, he shall not be able to tell out the mercy of the Lord. God will lose a singer from his earthly choir, a witness from his earthly courts, a...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
But unto thee have I cried, O LORD; and in the morning shall my prayer repent thee. “I will be up betimes, before thou comest to me. I will be first to approach thee. I will salute the rising sun with my rising prayer.”
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
LORD, why castest thou off my soul? why hidest thou thy face from me? Note again the earnestness of the psalmist’s pleadings. We have had many of them already; each verse has, I think, had at least two pleadings in it. If thou wouldst be heard with God, take care that thou dost reason with him, and press thine arguments with the Most High. He...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I am afflicted and ready to die from my youth up: while I suffer thy terrors I am distracted. Thy fierce wrath goeth over me; thy terrors have cut me off. They came round about me daily like water; they compassed me about together. Lover and friend hast thou put far from me, and mine acquaintance into darkness. There the Psalm ends. It is a...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I will sing of the mercies of the LORD for ever: Another subject might wear out, but this glorious topic will never be exhausted, Here is a theme which we can sing of in eternity as well as in time. Let others choose what subject they may, “I will sing of the mercies of Jehovah for ever.” Psa_89:1. With my mouth will I make known thy faithfulness...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I will sing of the mercies of the LORD for ever: with my mouth will I make known thy faithfulness to all generations. For I have said, Mercy shall be built up for ever: thy faithfulness shalt thou establish in the very heavens. So far, the gracious man declares the resolution of his heart to praise his God for ever, and gives the reason for that...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I will sing of the mercies of the LORD for ever: with my mouth will I make known thy faithfulness to all generations. For I have said, Mercy shall be built up for ever: thy faithfulness shalt thou establish in the very heavens. Here is an eternal song concerning eternal mercy. The mercy of the Lord is from everlasting to everlasting, so the...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For I have said, Mercy shall be built up for ever: What a building, — Mercy! God’s mercy is to be built up for ever. Psa_89:2. Thy faithfulness shalt thou establish in the very heavens. Like the great arch you see in the firmament on high, unbuttressed and unpillared, yet it stands fast. So shall God’s faithfulness be built up, settled, and...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I have made a covenant with my chosen, I have sworn unto David my servant, Well might the psalmist say, in the second verse, “I have said,” when God in the third verse says, “I have sworn.” It is ours to say, it is God’s to say with such tremendous solemnity that doubt cannot be tolerated. “I have made a covenant with my chosen:” King David, who...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I have made a covenant with my chosen, I have sworn unto David my servant, Thy seed will I establish for ever, and build up thy throne to all generations. Selah. That covenant, as you well know, was not only made with David, but it had a higher spiritual bearing, for it related to that great and glorious Son of David who still reigns, and shall...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I have made a covenant with my chosen, I have sworn unto David my servant, Thy seed will I establish for ever, and build up thy throne to all generations. Selah. The complete fulfillment of this glorious covenant promise concerns, not only David and his seed, but “great David’s greater Son” and his spiritual seed, the chosen people with whom the...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Thy seed will I establish for ever, and build up thy throne to all generations. Selah. Whatever may happen in the world, David’s Seed is always reigning; whatever kings may lose their crowns, King Jesus will never lose the many crowns that are on his head. God has sworn it: “Thy seed will I establish for ever, and build up thy throne to all...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And the heavens shall praise thy wonder, O LORD: thy faithfulness also in the congregation of the saints. The psalmist meant to praise God at such a rate that the sun, and moon, and stars, should hear his song, while angels and the host redeemed by blood should learn to praise God better than ever. “Thy faithfulness also in the congregation of the...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And the heavens shall praise thy wonders, O LORD: thy faithfulness also in the congregation of the saints. It is often very profitable, when we are enjoying fellowship with God, for us to speak to God, and then wait for God to speak to us. It is so here you see. First the psalmist says that he will praise God for ever, then God tells him of his...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And the heavens shall praise thy wonders O LORD: thy faithfulness also in the congregation of the saints. For who in the heaven can be compared unto the LORD? who among the sons of the mighty can be likened unto the LORD? God is greatly to be feared in the assembly of the saints, and to be had in reverence of all them that are about him. A holy...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For who in the heaven can be compared unto the LORD? who among the sons of the mighty can be likened unto the LORD? God is greatly to be feared in the assembly of the saints, The holiest are always the most reverent. There is no fear of God in the assembly of the sinners; but he is greatly to be feared in the assembly of the saints.”
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For who in the heaven can be compared unto the LORD? Who among the sons of the mighty can be likened unto the LORD? God is greatly to be feared — That is, reverenced, —