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John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Bow down thine ear to me,.... Which is said after the manner of men, who, when they give attention, and listen to anything, stoop, and incline the ear; and this for God to do, as he sometimes does, is wonderful condescending grace! deliver me speedily; which shows that he was in great danger, and his case required haste: the Lord does help right...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Bow down thine ear to me; “I am very weak, I am also very unworthy; it will be a great instance of thy divine condescension if thou dost hear me; yet I cry unto thee, ‘Bow down thine ear to me;’” Psa_31:2. Deliver me speedily: We may not set the time for God to answer our petitions, yet may we expect that his sure mercies will be swift mercies...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Bow down thine ear to me; “Listen to me, O Lord! Stoop down out of thy glory to catch the faint accents of my sorrowing, almost expiring spirit.” Psa_31:2. Deliver me speedily: “My case is urgent, Lord, for I am in deep distress. Delay will be dangerous, and may be even fatal: ‘Deliver me speedily:’ “ Psa_31:2. Be thou my strong rock, for an house...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
For thou [art] my rock and my fortress,.... What he prayed for he knew him to be, and to have been in times past, and could claim his interest in him; and therefore entreats that he would appear to be to him what he was in himself, and what he had been to him; therefore for thy name's sake lead me, and guide me; either as a shepherd does his...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For thou art my rock and my fortress; therefore for thy name’s sake lead me, and guide me. David is of a logical turn of mind, notice the “therefore” in this verse. What a singular “for” there is here! “Be thou my strong rock,” “for thou art my rock.” What God is already, we may ask him to be. What we believe him to be by faith, we ask him to be...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For thou art my rock and my fortress; Why did David just now pray God to be to him what he here says that God is? It was, surely, in order that he might know experimentally what he already knew doctrinally; he wanted the truth, in which he already believed, to be proven in his own experience, so he prayed to the Lord, “Be thou my strong rock, . ....
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Pull me out of the net that they have laid privily for me,.... The Ziphites, and Saul, and his men; the former intending treacherously to betray him, and the latter encompassing him about in order to take him; and such was his danger and difficulty, that he saw none but God could deliver him; and he it is that breaks the nets of men, and the...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Pull me out of the net that they have laid privily for me: for thou art my strength. “Lord, my enemies have entangled me; or ever I was aware of it, I was taken in the meshes of their net; wilt thou not pull me out, O Lord? It will need a strong pull, but then, ‘thou art my strength.’ ‘Pull me out of the net that they have laid privily for me: for...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Pull me out of the net that they have laid privily for me: for thou art my strength. How sweetly and blessedly he pleads! “’Thou art my strength.’ I cannot get out of this net, I am entangled in it; but thou canst pull me out, for ‘thou art my strength.’”
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Pull me out of the net that they have laid privily for me: for thou art my strength. Sometimes the believer gets so entangled that he sees no way of escape. He is caught like a bird in the fowler’s net, and he is so surrounded by it that he cries to the Lord, “Pull me out of the net.” He feels that he can only be delivered by the putting forth of...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Into thine hand I commit my spirit,.... Either his life, as to a faithful Creator and Preserver, who was the God of his life, gave him it, and upheld his soul in it; or his soul, and the eternal salvation of it, which he committed into the hand of the Lord his Redeemer, where he knew it would be safe, and out of whose hands none can pluck; or this...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Into thine hand I commit my spirit: You notice that this Psalm is dedicated to the chief musician. I have studied these Psalms, not only by the hour, and by the day, but sometimes by the month together. Some of these Psalms have been the pillow for my head at night; others of them, like wafers made of honey, have lain in my mouth till I have...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Thou hast redeemed me, O LORD God of truth, I have hated them that regard lying vanities: but I trust in the LORD. Men are sure to have some kind of trust or other on which they rely. In David’s day, some trusted to false gods, others relied upon their own strength; the psalmist does not speak in soft tones concerning these people, but he says, “I...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Into thine hand I commit my spirit: thou hast redeemed me, O LORD God of truth. This is a blessed prayer,— a holy resolution, which we may use every day in the week all through our lives.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Into thine hand I commit my spirit: The dying words of Jesus may well be the living words of each one of his redeemed people. We ought continually to commit our spirit into our great Father’s hands, for there is no other place that can be so safe and blessed as between the strong, almighty, never-failing hands of the eternal God. Psa_31:5. Thou...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
I have hated them that regard lying vanities,.... Soothsaying and divination, as Aben Ezra and others think; made use of by kings, and generals of armies, to know when it was proper to go out to war, and what success they should have; see Ezekiel 21:21; but such men and their practices David abhorred; he took no such methods when in distress, but...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I have hated them that regard lying vanities: but I trust in the LORD. “In Jehovah.” David had no patience with those who trusted in gods of wood and stone; he knew very little indeed of that spurious charity which leads some men to speak respectfully even of idolatry. David was “a good hater”; and there is something gracious about that when the...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I have hated them that regard lying vanities: That is, those that trusted in their idol gods, which he calls by this contemptuous name, “lying vanities.” David was not very respectful to false religions; he called them vanities and lies, and said, “I have hated them that regard them;”
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
But I trust in the LORD. I will be glad and rejoice in thy mercy: for thou hast considered my trouble; thou hast known my soul in adversities; “ ‘Thou hast considered my trouble;’ — thou hast looked at it, weighed it, understood it.” When a wise man gives his consideration to a thing, we respect his judgment; but what shall we say of the...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
I will be glad, and rejoice in thy mercy,.... Both because of the nature of it, which is large and abundant, free and sovereign, from everlasting to everlasting, and is communicated in and through Christ, and is a good ground of hope and trust; and because of the effects of it, or what it has produced; for to it are owing the covenant of grace,...