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Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Depart from evil, and do good; Get away from evil as far as you can; that is the negative side. Do good, that is the positive side of piety. He who obeys these two commands shall find happiness and blessing. Psa_34:14. Seek peace, and pursue it. Do not be of an angry, irritable, quarrelsome frame of mind. If you do not at once find peace, seek it;...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Depart from evil and do good; seek peace, and pursue it. A great deal packed away into a small compass there. There is the negative “Depart from evil,” and the positive which must go with it, “Do good.” And if you do not do good, you will soon do evil. And then there is that blessed precept “Seek peace.” Hunt after it, if you cannot spy it out,...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Depart from evil, and do good; seek peace, and pursue it. If it runs away from you, run after it. Never run into or after a quarrel, but always run after peace: “Seek peace, and pursue it.”
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
The eyes of the Lord [are] upon the righteous,.... These are the same with them that fear the Lord, and do good; not that they become righteous in the sight of God, or are justified before him, by their fear of him, and by their good works; but these are the fruits and effects of grace, showing them to be righteous persons; for it is only by the...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
The eyes of the LORD are upon the righteous, and his ears are open unto heir cry. God is all eye and all ear, and all his eye and all his ear are for his people. Are you distressed in heart? God sees your distress. Are you crying in secret in the bitterness of your soul? God hears your cry. You are not alone. O lonely spirit, broken spirit, be not...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
The eyes of the LORD are upon the righteous, He does not merely give a glance at them now and then, but his eyes rest on them, he is always watching them. Psa_34:15. And his ears are open unto their cry. The translators put in the words “are open,” but they were not needed.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
The eyes of the LORD are upon the righteous, and his ears are open unto their cry. He gives them his eyes and his ears, and this means that he gives them himself, and that he is ever ready to perceive their needs, and to hear their cries.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
The eyes of the LORD are upon the righteous, He watches them. He loves them too well to let them ever be out of his sight. He views them with complacency. He regards them with affection. The eyes of the Lord are upon the righteous. Psa_34:15. And his ears are open unto their cry. Ready to hear their feeblest prayer — the cry of their pain — their...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
The eyes of the LORD are upon the righteous, and his ears are open unto their cry. The Lord is always watching them, and he is always listening that he may hear everything they say, especially when they cry unto him.
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
The face of the Lord [is] against them that do evil,.... Not against everyone that sins; for the righteous are not without sin; they have sin in them, and they do no good without it; but against them that live in sin, whose course of life is a series of wickedness, and they are workers of iniquity; and have no sense of sin, nor sorrow for it, go...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
The face of the LORD is against them that do evil, to cut off the remembrance of them from the earth. You know what we say sometimes. “I set my face against such a thing as that.” Now God sets his face against them that do evil. You will come to an end, my friend. Your happiness, like a bubble painted with rainbow colors, may be the object of...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
The face of the LORD is against them that do evil,- You know what we mean when we say, “I set my face against it.” So God sets his face against the wicked. Note how near both the righteous and the wicked are to an observing God. In the first case, his eyes are upon the righteous; in the second, his face “is against them that do evil,” — Psa_34:16....
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
The face of the LORD is against them that do evil, He sets his face against them, and this means that he is himself eternally opposed to all their wicked ways.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
To cut off the remembrance of them from the earth. The righteous cry, and the LORD heareth, and delivereth them out of all their troubles. Not only out of some of them, but out of all of them. It is often a very long “all.” The list of their troubles is often difficult to read through but in due time there comes a “finis” to it written by the hand...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
The face of the LORD is against them that do evil, Sets his face against them.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
To cut off the remembrance of them from the earth. The righteous cry, and the LORD heareth, and delivereth them out of all their troubles. Here is an explanation of the experience of the believer — first, prayer; then God’s bearing, and then deliverance. Who would not pray who has found prayer to be so effectual with God
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
The face of the LORD is against them that do evil, to cut off the remembrance of them from the earth. He will not only destroy the wicked, but he will blot out the very memory of them. They may become great and famous in their wickedness, but they shall not be kept in memory, as the righteous are. As Solomon says, “The name of the wicked shall...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
[The righteous] cry,.... The word "righteous" is not in the original text, but is rightly supplied in our version, as it is in the Targum, and by Jarchi; and so Kimchi and Ben Melech observe, that these words are not to be connected with Psalms 34:16, but with Psalms 34:15; and they are indeed an amplification of the last clause of it; and the cry...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
The righteous cry, and the LORD heareth, and delivereth them out of all their troubles. That is how we live, if you want to know. God makes us righteous, and then we cry. We often praise him. We desire to have our mouth full of it. But we cry as well, and whenever we cry God hears, and our troubles are removed.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
The righteous cry, and the LORD heareth, and delivereth them out of all their troubles. That is something to teach the children, teach them from your own experience, that God does hear and answer prayer; teach them to pray to God always, and to believe that prayer has real and beneficial results: “The Lord heareth, and delivereth them out of all...