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John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
For I have heard the slander of many,.... Both enemies and neighbours; fear [was] on every side; his enemies were a "Magormissabib" to him, Jeremiah 20:3; encompassed him around, so that he was in fear from every quarter; while they took counsel together against me; how to apprehend him, and what to do with him; they devised to take away my life;...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For I have heard the slander of many: To have one slanderer attacking your character, is bad enough, but to have many such cruel enemies about you, to have a whole brood of hell’s hornets, as it were, stinging you, oh, what misery is this! You who, happily, have never experienced this torture, cannot imagine what agony it causes; I hope you never...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Fear was on every side: while they took counsel together against me, they devised to take away my life. But I trusted in thee, O LORD. Here he is back on the old rock, and rejoicing as his feet stand once more on this firm foundation: “I trusted in thee, O Jehovah.”
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For I have heard the slander of many: fear was on every side: awhile they took counsel together against me, they devised to take away my life. Bet I trusted in thee, O LORD: Now the strain will mount again. It is faith that tunes the royal singer, so that he rises to heights of joy though just now he had sunk so low.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For I have heard the slander of many: fear was on every side: The very best of men have had to smart under the wounds caused by that cruel, accursed thing slander. No quality of purity, no degree of piety, can screen a man from the tongue of slander; in fact, as the birds peck most at the ripest fruit, it is often the best of men who are most...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
While they took counsel together against me, they devised to take away my life. But I trusted in thee, O LORD: I said, Thou art my God. That is a grand utterance of the psalmist; now he is coming back to the point where he began; the Psalm is now in harmony with its keynote.
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
But I trusted in thee, O Lord,.... His faith revived again under all the discouraging views he had of things, and was exercised upon the Lord; he committed himself to him, believing he was able to help him in his time of trouble, and deliver him; I said, thou [art] my God; he claimed his covenant interest in him, and used it as an argument with...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
; Psa_31:16. I said, Thou art my God. My times are in thy hand: “My enemies cannot do anything against me without thy permission.” Divine providence is a downy pillow for an aching head, a blessed anodyne for the sharpest pain. He who can feel that his times are in the hand of God, need not tremble at anything that is in the hand of man.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I said; Thou art my God. My times are in thy hand: He had put his spirit there: “Into thine hand I commit my spirit;” and now he says, “My times are in thy hand.”
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
My times [are] in thy hand,.... And not in the hand of his enemies; as his time of life and death, which was only by the direction and appointment of God, was in his power, and fixed by him; nor could his enemies take away his life before his time, and without the will of his covenant God: the time of his coming to the throne, and what was gone...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Deliver me from the hand of mine enemies, and from them that persecute me. Make thy face to shine upon thy servant: save me for thy mercies’ sake. “If thy face shines upon me, Lord, they may look as black as they please. If thou wilt but deliver me, I care not how cruelly they persecute me. If thou wilt save me, who can destroy me?” O you who are...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Deliver me from the hand of mine enemies, and from them that persecute me. Make thy face to shine upon thy servant: save me for thy mercies’ sake. Let me not be ashamed, O LORD; for I have called upon thee: let the wicked be ashamed, and let them be silent in the grave. Let the lying lips be put to silence; which speak grievous things proudly and...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
My times are in thy hand: My times are not in the hands of my enemies; they cannot hurt me without God’s permission.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Deliver me from the hand of mine enemies, and from them that persecute me. Make thy face to shine upon thy servant: Oh, for the shinings of God’s face! How blessed and glorious they are! I is heaven on earth to dwell within the circle of that light; and if we get out of the range of those rays, what joy can we have?
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Make thy face to shine upon thy servant,.... In which he prays for the gracious presence of God, the manifestations of himself unto him, the discoveries of his love, the enjoyment of him in Christ, communion with him, the comforts of his Spirit, and joys of his salvation; see Numbers 6:25; save me for thy mercies' sake; not for any merit and...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Save me for thy mercies’ sake. That is a prayer for a sinner, and a prayer for a saint; a prayer for every day in the year: “Save me for thy mercies’ sake.”
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Let me not be ashamed, O Lord,.... The same petition as in Psalms 31:1; for I have called upon thee; who is nigh unto all that call upon him in truth, and is rich unto them, and has promised to help and save them; which should he not do, not only he would be made ashamed, but the promise of God would seem to fail: for the psalmist does not plead...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Let me not be ashamed, O LORD; for I have called upon thee: let the wicked be ashamed, and let them be silent in the grave. There is something of the harshness of the old dispensation about that prayer; so we will turn it into a prophecy, and say, “The wicked shall be ashamed; they shall be silent in the grave.”
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
—19. Let me not be ashamed, O LORD; for I have called upon thee: let the wicked be ashamed, and let them be silent in the grave. Let the lying lips be put to silence; which speak grievous things proudly and contemptuously against the righteous. Oh, how great is thy goodness, which thou hast laid up for them that fear thee; Then, be off good...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Let the lying lips be put to silence,.... Being convicted of the lies told by them, and so silenced and confounded; or being cut off and destroyed, as all such will be in the Lord's own time, Psalms 12:3. It is very likely the psalmist may have respect either to Doeg the Edomite, who loved lying rather than righteousness; or to others that were...