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John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Lord, by thy favour thou hast made my mountain to stand strong,.... The psalmist found himself mistaken, and acknowledges it; that as it was not owing to his own merit that he enjoyed the prosperity that he did, so neither was the continuance of it owing to his goodness, power, and strength, but to the free grace and favour of God; as the church...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
LORD, by thy favour thou hast made my mountain to stand strong: thou didst hide thy face, and I was troubled. When God is at cross purposes with his people, they are troubled at once. There is no need for blows, no need for angry words: “Thou didst hide thy face; and I was troubled.” That is enough for a child of God; let him but miss the light of...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
I cried to thee, O Lord,.... In his trouble, when the Lord had hid his face from him, and he was sensible that he had departed from him: he was not stupid and unaffected with it; nor did he turn his back upon God, and seek to others; but he cried after a departing God, which showed love to him, and some degree of faith in him, by looking again...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I cried to thee, O LORD; and unto the LORD I made supplication. What should the child of God do, when he is in trouble, but cry? And to whom should he cry but to his Father?
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
What profit [is there] in my blood?.... Should that be shed, and he die by the hands of his enemies, through divine permission: death is not profitable to a man's self by way of merit; it does not atone for sin, satisfy justice, and merit heaven; even the death of martyrs, and of such who shed their blood, died in the cause of Christ, and for his...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
What profit is there in my blood, when I go down to the pit? shall the dust praise thee? Shall it declare thy truth? So his prayer was an argument, and that is the very bone and sinew of prayer, — to reason and argue with God. He seems to put it thus, — “Lord, if I lose my soul, thou wilt be a loser, too, for thou wilt lose a singer out of thy...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Hear, O Lord, and have mercy upon me,.... By lifting up the light of his countenance again upon him; by manifesting and applying his pardoning grace to him, and by delivering him out of all his afflictions; Lord, be thou my helper; in this time of trouble; for he knew that vain was the help of man; and he was entirely in the right to betake...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Hear, O LORD, and have mercy upon me: LORD, be thou my helper. What a handy prayer this is, a prayer to carry about with you wherever you go! “Lord, be thou my Helper.” That is a minister’s prayer when he was going to preach. That is a Sunday-school teacher’s prayer when going to the class. Is not that a prayer for the sufferer when the pain upon...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Those hast turned for me my mourning into dancing,.... This, with what follows, expresses the success he had in seeking the Lord by prayer and supplication; there was a sudden change of things, as it often is with the people of God; sometimes they are mourning by reason of sin, their own and others; or on account of afflictions; or because of...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Thou hast turned for me my mourning into dancing: thou hast put off my sackcloth, and girded me with gladness. What a transformation scene in answer to prayer! Notice that David does not say, “I hope that thou hast,” but he puts it thus, “Thou hast — thou hast,” He is quite sure about it; and, being sure of this great mercy, he gives God all the...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
To the end that [my] glory may sing praise to thee, and not be silent,.... Meaning either his soul, the more noble and glorious part of him; or the members of his body, his tongue, which is the glory of it, and with which he glorified God; see Psalms 16:9; compared with Acts 2:26, this was the end that was to be answered by changing the scene of...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
To the end that my glory- Or, “my tongue” — Psa_30:12. May sing praise to thee, and not be silent. God ought to have praise from us. It is the quit-rent which we pay as tenants to the great Lord of all; let us not rob him of his revenue. Psa_30:12. O LORD my God, I will give thanks unto thee for ever.
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
INTRODUCTION TO Psalms 31 To the chief Musician, a Psalm of David. This psalm, according to Arama, was composed by David when in Keilah; but, according to Kimchi and others, when the Ziphites proposed to deliver him up into the hands of Saul; and who, upon their solicitations, came down and surrounded him with his army, from whom in haste he made...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
In thee, O Lord, do I put my trust,.... Not in any creature, but in the Lord Jehovah; the Targum, "in thy Word"; the essential Logos, or Word, which was in the beginning with God, and was God, and so an equal object of faith, trust, and confidence, as Jehovah the Father: this act includes a trusting all with God, body and soul, and the welfare of...
Matthew Henry - Complete Commentary - Matthew Henry
It is probable that David penned this psalm when he was persecuted by Saul; some passages in it agree particularly to the narrow escapes he had, at Keilah (1 Sam. xxiii. 13), then in the wilderness of Maon, when Saul marched on one side of the hill and he on the other, and, soon after, in the cave in the wilderness of En-gedi; but that it was...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
In thee, O LORD, do I put my trust; Can we say as much as that? However else this Psalm of David may end, it strikes a grand key-note, that which should be the first indication of our spiritual life, — confidence in God. Here is an ancient weather-beaten saint who, in the very midst of the storm, can say, “In thee, O Jehovah, do I put my trust.”...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
In thee, O LORD, do I put my trust; Is that true of you, dear friends? Never take your trust upon trust, but be quite sure that you do trust in God; if it is so, avow it, and never be ashamed to say, “In thee, O Lord, do I put my trust; “
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Let me never be ashamed: deliver me in thy righteousness. Bow down thine ear to me; deliver me speedily: be thou my strong rock, for an house of defense to save me. For thou art my rock and my fortress; therefore for thy name’s sake lead me, and guide me. See how logical David is with his “for” and “therefore.” It is the very essence of prayer to...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
In thee, O LORD, do I put my trust; This is a good beginning; this is the fulcrum which will give us the necessary leverage for lifting any weight of sorrow or trouble that may be burdening us: “In thee, O Jehovah, do I put my trust.” Can each of us truthfully say that to begin with? If so, we may go on with David to the petitions that follow: —...
Spurgeon - Treasury of David - Charles H. Spurgeon
Ver. 1. In thee, O Lord, do I put my trust. Nowhere else do I fly for shelter, let the tempest howl as it may. The psalmist has one refuge, and that the best one. He casts out the great sheet anchor of his faith in the time of storm. Let other things be doubtful, yet the fact that he relies on Jehovah, David lays down most positively; and he...