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John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Thine hand shall find out all thine enemies,.... The Jews, that would not have him to reign over them, who crucified him and persecuted his apostles; the Gentiles, who were also concerned in his death; the Roman emperors, who persecuted the Christians, and are signified by the red dragon that waited to devour the man child when brought forth by...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Thy right hand shall find out those that hate thee. Thou shalt make them as a fiery oven in the time of thine anger: the LORD shell swallow them up in his wrath, and the fire shall devour them. Their fruit shalt thou destroy from the earth, and their seed from among the children, of men. For they intended evil against thee: they imagined a...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Thy right hand shall fall out those that hate thee. “Hide wherever they may, thou wilt find them out. They may stand in the high places, and defy thee; but thou wilt hurl them down.”
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Thou shalt make them as a fiery oven,.... Some think the allusion is to David's causing the Ammonites to pass through the brick kiln, 2 Samuel 12:31; others to the burning of Sodom and Gomorrah: it represents what a severe punishment shall be inflicted on the enemies of Christ; they shall be cast into a fiery oven, or furnace of fire, as Shadrach,...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Thou shalt make them as a fiery oven in the time of thine anger: “Not only shall they be cast into the fire, but they shall themselves be as a fiery oven in the time of thine anger. They shall torment themselves, and shall be their own destruction.”
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
The LORD shall swallow them up in his wrath, and the fire shall devour them. Their fruit shalt thou destroy from the earth, and their seed from among the children of men. For they intended evil against thee: they imagined a mischievous device, which they are not able to perform. But that did not diminish their sin. When a man has devised an evil...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Their fruit shall thou destroy from the earth,.... Meaning the offspring of wicked men; the fruit of the womb, Psalms 127:3; the same with their seed in the next clause: and their seed from among the children of men; see Psalms 37:28; which must be understood of such of their seed, and offspring as are as they were when born; are never renewed and...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
For they intended evil against thee,.... All evil, whether in thought or deed, if not immediately and directly, yet is ultimately against the Lord, whose law is transgressed, and who is despised and reflected upon as a lawgiver; all sin is an hostility committed against God, or against Christ, against the Lord and his Anointed, or against his...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Therefore shall thou make them turn their back,.... Or flee and run away to private places, to hide themselves from the wrath of God and of the Lamb, though to no purpose; or "make them turn [behind thy] back": God will turn his back upon them, and be negligent and careless of them, and not regard them when they cry in their misery and...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Therefore shalt thou make them turn their back, when thou shalt make ready thine arrows upon thy strings against the face of them. As if God would single out the enemies of Christ to be targets for his arrows, and fill them with the darts of his displeasure; who would wish to be in such a plight as this?
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Be thou exalted, Lord, in thine own strength,.... Exert thy strength, display thy power in such manner, that thou mayest be exalted and magnified on account of it. This was fulfilled at the destruction of Jerusalem, when the kingdom of God came with power, Mr 9:1; and will be again when Babylon shall be utterly destroyed, because the Lord is...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Be thou exalted, LORD, in thine own strength: so will we sing and praise thy power This exposition consisted of readings from PSALMS 20. and 21.
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
INTRODUCTION TO Psalms 22 To the chief Musician upon Aijeleth Shahar, a Psalm of David. The only thing observable in the title of this psalm is the sense of the words "Aijeleth Shahar", left untranslated; which, according to some of the Jewish (g) interpreters, is the name of a musical instrument; to which our version inclines; and a learned Jew...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
My God, my God,.... God is the God of Christ as he is man; he prepared a body for him, an human nature; anointed it with the oil of gladness; supported it under all its sorrows and sufferings, and at last exalted it at his own right hand:, and Christ behaved towards him as his covenant God; prayed to him, believed in him, loved him, and was...
Matthew Henry - Complete Commentary - Matthew Henry
The Spirit of Christ, which was in the prophets, testifies in this psalm, as clearly and fully as any where in all the Old Testament, "the sufferings of Christ and the glory that should follow" (1 Pet. i. 11); of him, no doubt, David here speaks, and not of himself, or any other man. Much of it is expressly applied to Christ in the New Testament,...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? What a dolorous cry! How terrible it must have been to have heard that cry, but how much more terrible to have uttered it! For the dear Son of God, the Well-beloved, with whom the Father is always pleased, to be forsaken of his God, was indeed grief unfathomable. Psa_22:1. Why art thou so far from helping...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
MY God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? It was not morning with Jesus when he uttered these words; it was midnight, but his midnight is our morning. Psa_22:1. Why art thou so far from helping me, and from the words of my roaring? The prayer had come to be almost inarticulate, like the dying moan of a wounded beast in the forest.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me! why art thou so far from helping me, and from the words of my roaring? That was the very climax of our Lord’s grief upon the cross, that it was necessary that the Father himself should forsake him. The penalty of sin is that God must leave the man who has sin upon him even by imputation; and God left this...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? Every word is emphatic: “My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?” “All others may forsake me, and I need not be greatly troubled at their absence; but ‘why hast thou forsaken me?” “Why hast thou forsaken me?’ I understand why thou dost smite me, for I am the Shepherd predestined to be smitten for the...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
My God, my God! why hast thou forsaken me? Every word here is emphatic. Take the first two words “My God, my God.” These reveal our Saviour’s claim upon God as his God. Why hast thou forsaken me? I can understand that others should leave me, but why hast thou done so?” Then lay the stress upon the last word: “’Why hast thou forsaken me, — thine...