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Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Deliver me not over unto the will of mine enemies: for false witnesses are risen up against me, and such as breathe out cruelty. It is their delight to be cruel, to say unkind, unjust, untruthful things which lacerate the heart; and the more some people can tear good men’s reputations to pieces, the more pleased they are. I must say that it is...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Deliver me not over unto the will of mine enemies: for false witnesses are risen up against me, and such as breathe out cruelty. David found enemies, and as will you, and the holier you are, the more shall you have of them. Birds pick the ripest fruit; the highest towers cast the longest shadows; and so is it that the highest holiness is generally...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Deliver me not over unto the will of mine enemies: for false witnesses are risen up against me, and such as breathe out cruelty. Am I addressing anyone who is being slandered? Has somebody borne false witness against you? Well, be very thankful that it is false. I do not quite understand why it is so often said, “You see, it is such a downright...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
[I had fainted],.... When false witnesses rose up against him, and threatened to take away his life, and the life of his friends, in the most barbarous and cruel manner: the people of God are subject to faintings, in the present state of things; by reason of afflictions; because of the nature, number, and continuance of them; and especially when...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I had fainted, ,unless I had believed to see the goodness of the LORD in the land of the living. “I had fainted, unless I had believed.” You have the choice between these two things, you must either faint or have faith. Faith is the blessed smelling-bottle that will often prevent a fainting fit. Get but a sniff of the promises, do but know how...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I had fainted, unless I had believed — That is the smelling bottle for a fainting soul: “I had fainted unless I had believed.” You must do the one or the other; you must either believe or else faint, but if your faith is strong you cannot faint. O thou who art of feeble faith, it is little of a marvel that thou faintest! Would God that thy faith...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
The goodness of the LORD is the land of the living. Wait on the LORD: be of good courage, and he shall strengthen thine heart: wait, I say, on the LORD. Why did David put that little sentence in and say, “Wait, I say”? It is a repetition, but not a vain one, for it is his own personal testimony, as much as if he had said, “I have waited on the...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I had fainted, unless I had believed to see the goodness of the LORD in the land of the living. With troubles without, and fears within, and slanderers and enemies of all sorts around him, the Christian had almost fainted; but faith puts the divine smelling-bottle to his nose, and as soon as ever the nostril perceives the sweet perfume of God’s...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I had fainted, unless I had believed to see the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living. That is the point to be noted; there is no getting over fainting except by believing, for believing saves us from swooning, and makes us strong: “I had fainted, unless I had believed.”
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Wait on the Lord,.... This, with what follows, is spoken by the psalmist either to himself or to others, or it may be to both, upon the rich experience he declares in Psalms 27:13: it becomes believers to wait on the Lord for the common blessings of life, for even the eyes of all wait upon him for their daily food; and for the light of his...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Wait on the Lord: be of good courage, and he shall strengthen thine heart: wait, I say, on the LORD. He is worth waiting upon. God help us all to wait on him, for his dear name’s sake! Amen.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Wait on the LORD: I think I hear David say this short sentence to each one in this great assembly tonight, “Wait on the Lord.” Psa_27:14. Be of good courage, and he shall strengthen thine heart: wait, I say, David says it from his own experience, and thus, as it were, puts his name and seal at the end of the Psalm: “Wait, I say,”- Psa_27:14. On...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Wait on the LORD: be of good courage, and he shall strengthen thine heart: wait, I say, on the LORD. Wait on no one else; wait only on him, and then you shall not be discouraged or faint-hearted; wherefore, “wait, I say, on the Lord.”
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Wait on the LORD: be of good courage, and he shall strengthen thine heart: Here is a man of God giving us the benefit of his own experience; he waited upon God, and now he bids us do the same, that we may be blessed as he was. At our prayer-meeting before we came in here, one dear friend thanked the Lord that, for more than sixty years, he had...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
INTRODUCTION TO Psalms 28 [A Psalm] of David. This psalm, Aben Ezra says, David either composed himself, or one of the singers for him; the former seems most likely; and it might be made by him when he was persecuted by Saul, or when delivered from him; or at least when he had faith and hope that he should be delivered: the psalm consists of two...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Unto thee will I cry,.... This denotes the distress the psalmist was in, fervency and ardour in prayer, resolution to continue in it, and singularity with respect to the object of it; determining to cry to the Lord only; to which he was encouraged by what follows; O Lord my rock; he being a strong tower and place of defence to him, in whom were...
Matthew Henry - Complete Commentary - Matthew Henry
The former part of this psalm is the prayer of a saint militan and now in distress (ver. 1-3), to which is added the doom of God's implacable enemies, ver. 4, 5. The latter part of the psalm is the thanksgiving of a saint triumphant, and delivered out of his distresses (ver. 6-8), to which is added a prophetical prayer for all God's faithful loyal...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Unto thee will I cry, O LORD my rock: be not silent to me: lest, if thou be silent to me, I become like them that go down into the pit. Oh! if God did not hear prayer, we should become like dead men — ay, like lost men. Our fall or despair would be terrible indeed. “Lest, if thou be silent to me, I become Like them that go down into the pit.”
Spurgeon - Treasury of David - Charles H. Spurgeon
Ver. 1. Unto thee will I cry, O Lord, my rock. A cry is the natural expression of sorrow, and is a suitable utterance when all other modes of appeal fail us; but the cry must be alone directed to the Lord, for to cry to man is to waste our entreaties upon the air. When we consider the readiness of the Lord to hear, and his ability to aid, we shall...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Hear the voice of my supplications,.... Which proceed from the Spirit of grace and of supplication, and are put up in an humble manner, under a sense of wants and unworthiness, and on the foot of grace and mercy, and not merit; when I cry unto thee; as he now did, and determined he would, and continue so doing, until he was heard; when I lift up...