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Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I will be glad and rejoice in thy mercy: What a grand faith! Should there not sometimes be the sounding of the cymbals even in the midst of our supplications? Though we must often put on sackcloth, yet we must lift up our song of praise whenever we can: “’I will be glad and rejoice,’ — there shall be a reduplication of my delight, — ‘I will be...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I will be glad and rejoice in thy mercy: David makes the cymbals clash together: “I will be glad and rejoice in thy mercy: “ Psa_31:7. For thou hast considered my trouble; thou hast known my soul in adversities; It is said to be the highest wisdom to know yourself; but, to my mind, it is a much better thing for God to know you. You may know...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
And hast not shut me up into the hand of the enemy,.... When in Keilah, in the wilderness of Ziph, and Maon, and encompassed about by Saul and his army, 1 Samuel 23:7; nor does the Lord suffer his people to be shut up under the power of sin and Satan, so that they cannot come forth in the exercise of grace, and the discharge of duty: but he brings...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And hast not shut me up into the hand of the enemy: “No; I may get into the enemy’s prison, but there is no bar to it. ‘Thou hast not shut me up.’ I may seem to get into my enemy’s hand; but he cannot shut that hand.” Truly, it must be so, because David had already put his soul into the hand of God: “Into thine hand I commit my spirit.” How, then,...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And hast not shut me up into the hand of the enemy: thou hast set my feet in a large room. “Thou hast given me a broad place to live in, and thou hast given me abundance to eat there.” So David praises and blesses his God; but now see how the note falls. From the highest point of the scale he suddenly descends to the very lowest. “We spend our...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And hast not shut me up into the hand of the enemy: thou hast set my feet in a large room. Have mercy upon me, O LORD, for I am in trouble: mine eye is consumed with grief, yea, my soul and my belly. For my life is spent with grief, and my years with sighing: That is better than spending our years in sinning; yet it is a painful experience when...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Have mercy upon me, O Lord, for I am in trouble,.... A sudden change of case and frame this! and so it is with the people of God; as soon as, out of one trouble, they are in another; these are what are appointed for them, and lie in their pathway to heaven, and are necessary; and under them it is quite right to betake themselves to the Lord, who...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Have mercy upon me, O LORD, for I am in trouble: In this short sentence of four words, — “I am in trouble,” — David gives the text of which the next few verses are a kind of sermon, with divisions and subdivisions. Psa_31:9. Mine eye is consumed with grief, “My eyes seem burnt up with scalding tears.” The salt of our tears wears out the very...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Have mercy upon me, O LORD, for I am in trouble: mine eye is consumed with grief, yea, my soul and my belly. For my life is spent with grief, and my years with sighing: Sighing is better than sinning any day. Though we may deplore that our life melts away in sighs, it is better that it should go so than that it should be wasted in sins.
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
For my life is spent with grief, and my years with sighing,.... Which shows the continuance of his troubles, and that his whole life had been, as it were, an uninterrupted series of sorrows; my strength faileth because of mine iniquity; this opens the source and spring of all his grief and trouble; his sin, and the sin of his nature, in which he...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For my life is spent with grief, and my years with sighing: Better spend them in sighing than in sinning; yet it is a sad case when we seem to measure our days by the bars of our grief. Psa_31:10. My strength faileth because of mine iniquity, and my bones are consumed. Now he sees to the bottom of his sorrow: “My strength faileth because of mine...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
My strength faileth because of mine iniquity, and my bones are consumed. I was a reproach among all mine enemies, but especially among my neighbours, and a fear to mine acquaintance: they that did see me without fled from me. He was in such a sorry plight that men would not own him. They were afraid that they should be disgraced by being found in...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
My strength faileth because of mine iniquity, and my bones are consumed. I was a reproach among all mine enemies, but especially among my neighbours, They were the nearest to him, and therefore could smite him the most keenly.
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
I was a reproach among all mine enemies,.... This is a common case of the people of God; and though it may be the least of their afflictions, yet it is not grateful to the flesh; and it is as it is made: under divine supports saints rejoice, and take pleasure in reproaches, that they are counted worthy to bear them, and esteem them as great...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I was a reproach among all mine enemies, They had found something to fling at him, and they were delighted to throw it with all their malicious force: “I was a reproach among all mine enemies,” — Psa_31:11. But especially among my neighbours, Those that are nearest can stab the sharpest. Those who knew David the best, endeavored to find some silly...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And a fear to mine acquaintance: They did not like to own him even as an acquaintance; they were afraid of him. Yet what a light this verse throws upon David’s previous declaration, “Thou has known my soul in adversities”!
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
I am forgotten as a dead man out of mind,.... Either by his friends, being out of sight, out of mind; as even the nearest relations and acquaintance are, in process of time, when dead, Ecclesiastes 9:5; or by the Lord; which shows the weakness of his faith, the uncomfortable frame he was in, through darkness and desertion; see Psalms 88:5; I am...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I am forgotten as a dead man out of mind: I am like a broken vessel. This was the same David who slew the Philistine giant; this was the great deliverer of his country; yet the people had forgotten all that. Earthly popularity is the most fleeting thing under heaven. The world is a hard and cruel master; it forgets its servants when they grow old,...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I am forgotten us a dead man out of mind: I am like a broken vessel. An old pot, flung on the dunghill, as of no further use.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I am forgotten as a dead man out of mind; The very man, in whose honour, in the former times, the women out of all the cities of Israel sang, “Saul hath slain his thousands, and David his ten thousands,” now had sorrowfully to say, ‘I am forgotten as a dead man out of mind.” Psa_31:12. I am like a broken vessel. “Men think me of no more value than...