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John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Deliver my soul from the sword,.... Wicked men, whose tongues were as a sharp sword, reproaching and blaspheming him, and bearing false witness against him; and crying out, "Crucify him, crucify him", Lu 23:21; see Psalms 17:12; or any instrument of violence, as the iron bar with which the legs of the malefactors crucified with him were broken,...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Save me from the lion's mouth,.... Either the devil, who is as a roaring lion, whom Christ overcame both in the garden and on the cross, and destroyed him and his works; or all his wicked enemies, especially the most powerful of them, who were in greatest authority, as the chief priests and elders; so rulers and civil magistrates, who are cruel...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
I will declare thy name unto my brethren,.... Not those who were more nearly related to him according to the flesh; for though there were some who believed in him, and to whom he declared the name of God, as James and Joses, and Judas and Simon, Matthew 13:55; yet there were others that did not believe on him, John 7:3; nor those more remotely...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I will declare thy name unto my brethren: in the midst of the congregation will I praise thee. A gleam of sunlight now comes over the cross; the thick darkness is melting away, and the Saviour is triumphing even in his dying hour. He is passing away from the agonizing cry, “Why hast thou forsaken me?” to his last victorious utterance, “It is...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I will declare thy name unto my brethren in the midst of the congregation will I praise thee. The risen Christ is in the midst of us; he has come hither to tell us of his Father’s love; he has told it to us by his death, and now he bids us praise the Lord, and himself leads our song. This is the reward of his passion, that he and his brethren...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I will declare thy name unto my brethren: His first thought, even in his agony on the cross, was about them; and he seemed to say, “When I have risen from the dead, I will tell them all about this time of trial; and through the ages to come, I will tell my people how thou didst help me, — the greatest of all sufferers, — and that thou wilt help...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I will declare thy name unto my brethren: “I shall live again, I shall see Peter and James and John, and many more whom I have loved, and I will talk with them about my Father.” Psa_22:22. In the midst of the congregation will I praise thee. He knew that he would rise from the dead, and that he would praise God in the midst of his brethren.
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Ye that fear the Lord, praise him,.... By whom are meant, not the proselytes among the Gentiles, as distinct from the Jews, which is the sense of some Jewish interpreters (n); but all the people of God, whether Jews or Gentiles, who have the grace of filial and godly fear put into their hearts, with which they worship God, and walk before him in...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Ye that fear the LORD, praise him; all ye the seed of Jacob, glorify him; and fear him, all ye the seed of Israel. For he hath not despised nor abhorred the affliction of the afflicted; neither hath he hid his face from him; but when he cried unto him, he heard. Here is the testimony of One who suffered more than all of us put together will ever...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
He that fear the LORD, praise him; all ye, the seed of Jacob, glorify him; and fear him, all ye the seed of Israel. For he hath not despised nor abhorred the affliction of the afflicted, neither hath he hid his face from him; but when he cried unto him, he heard. Is not this delightful? Your Lord has gone through the black darkness, and has come...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Ye that fear the LORD, praise him; all ye the seed of Jacob, glorify him; and fear him, all ye the, seed of Israel. For he hath not despised nor abhorred the affliction of the afflicted; neither hath he hid his face from him; but when he cried unto him, he heard. What a change of note! If men could hear us speak when we are in the depths of...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Ye that fear the LORD, praise him; all ye the seed of Jacob, glorify him; and fear him, all ye the seed of Israel. For he hath not despised nor abhorred the affliction of the afflicted; neither hath he hid his face from him; but when he cried unto him, he heard. He is telling to himself, in the little quiet interval just before he breathed out his...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
For he hath not despised nor abhorred the affliction of the afflicted,.... That is, Christ, who was afflicted by men, both by their tongues, and by their hands; by devils, by the temptations of Satan for Christ suffered being tempted, though he was not overcome; and by his attacks upon him, both in the garden and on the cross; and by the Lord...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
My praise [shall be] of thee in the great congregation,.... Or, "my praise is from thee" (o); not that he should have praise of God, as he had, when he was received up into heaven, and set down at the right hand of God; but that God should be the object of his praise, as he was the cause of it; his salvation and deliverance of him, and...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
My praise shall be of thee in the great congregation: It is so here this evening; Christ is praising God in this congregation. As we read these words of his dying testimony, we too are encouraged to believe that the God who heard him will hear us and deliver us.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I will pay my vows before them that fear him. The meek shall eat and be satisfied: they shall praise the LORD that seek him: your heart shall live for ever. He is talking the matter over to himself, and comforting himself with the prospect of the results of his suffering. He sees the vast numbers of people who will be saved through his atoning...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
My praise shall be of thee in the great congregation: I will pay my vows before them that fear him. The meek shall eat and be satisfied: He thought of you, poor, timid, trembling ones, you who are humbled before God under a sense of your sin. Because he died, because he accomplished your redemption, you “shall eat and be satisfied.”
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
My praise shall be of thee in the great congregation: I will pay my vows before them that fear him. Christ still praises God in the great congregation. On my way to this evening’s service, I called to see one of our dear brethren who is very ill, and I was much refreshed with a sweet thing that he said: — “When we all get to heaven, we shall feel...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
My praise shall be of thee in the great congregation: I will pay my vows before them that fear him. The meek shall eat and be satisfied: they shall praise the LORD that seek him: He is still talking to himself about what would happen after his death and resurrection,-how gracious men would praise the Lord, and how he himself would live again to...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
The meek shall eat and be satisfied,.... Such who, being made thoroughly sensible of sin, look upon themselves the chief of sinners, and the least of saints; and being truly convicted of the insufficiency of their own righteousness, wholly trust to and rely on the righteousness of Christ; and, being acquainted with their impotency and inability to...