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John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
For in thee, O Lord, do I hope,.... That he would plead his cause against his accusers and revilers, and who sought his hurt; that he should be delivered out of their hands, and out of all his afflictions; that he should be healed of his diseases, both of soul and body, under which he laboured; and should again enjoy the light of God's...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Thou wilt hear, O LORD my God. “Even if I do not hear thee, thou wilt hear me and if no man shall hear me, thou wilt hear my prayer, and answer my supplication.”
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
For I said, [hear me],.... This he had expressed in prayer to God; he had committed his cause to him, and entreated him that he would hear and answer him; giving this as a reason, lest [otherwise] they should rejoice over me; at his misfortunes and calamities, at the continuance of his trouble and distress, both of body and mind; when my foot...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For I said, Hear me, lest otherwise they should rejoice over me: when my foot slippeth, they magnify themselves against me. For I am ready to halt, and my sorrow is continually before me. For I will declare mine iniquity; I will be sorry for my sin. But mine enemies are lively, and they are strong; and they that hate me wrongfully are multiplied....
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For I said, Hear me, lest otherwise they should rejoice over me: when my foot slippeth, they magnify themselves against me. For I am ready to halt, and my sorrow is continually before me. For I will declare mine iniquity; I will be sorry for my sin. But mine enemies are lively, and they are strong: and they that hate me wrongfully are multiplied....
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
For I [am] ready to halt,.... Meaning either that there was a proneness in him to sin; see Jeremiah 20:10; or that he was subject to affliction and adversity, as the same word is rendered in Psalms 35:15; and the words are either a reason and argument used with the Lord, to hear and keep his foot from slipping, that so his enemies might not...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
For I will declare mine iniquity,.... Either to men, to ease his mind, justify God in his proceedings with him, and for their caution and admonition: or rather to God, against whom he had sinned, and who only could pardon him; with a view to which he was determined to make a free and open confession of it before him: I will be sorry for my sin, or...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
But mine enemies [are] lively,.... Or "living" (q) or "live"; not in a spiritual sense; for they had no lively hope, nor living faith, but were dead in trespasses and sins; nor merely in a natural sense, or corporeally, so David was living himself; but in great prosperity and worldly happiness, and so were brisk and cheerful, and lived a merry and...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
They also that render evil for good are mine adversaries,.... [See comments on Psalms 35:12]; because I follow [the thing that] good [is]; or "follow good"; a good God, whom his soul followed hard after, Psalms 63:8; the good Shepherd of the sheep, who led him into green pastures, whither he followed him, Psalms 23:1; the good Spirit of God his...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Forsake me not, O Lord,.... Or continue not to forsake; for he seems to have been under divine desertion, and might be under apprehensions that God had utterly forsaken him; which he entreats he would not, though his friends had forsook him, and his own strength had failed and left him, Psalms 38:10; O my God, be not far from me; as to his...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Forsake me not, O Lord: O my God, be not far from me. Make haste to help me, O Lord my salvation. Now we shall see, as we read that wondrous 53rd chapter of Isaiah not a man of God in trouble, but the Son of God in trouble; and we shall see him also as a deaf man that heareth not, “and as a dumb man that openeth not his mouth.” This exposition...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Make haste and help me,.... Or, "for my help"; his case required haste, and God does help his people when none else can, and that right early; O Lord, my salvation; by which it appears that his prayer was a prayer of faith; he saw that his salvation was in the Lord, and in no other; and though he had been and was in such a low condition, both in...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Make haste to help me, O lord my salvation. David’s case is urgent, and his plea is earnest. If we are in a like case, let us also cry, “Make haste to help me, O Lord my salvation.”
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
INTRODUCTION TO Psalms 39 To the chief Musician, [even] to Jeduthun, a Psalm of David. Some take Jeduthun to be the name of a musical instrument, as Jarchi, on which, and others the first word of a song, to the tune of which, this psalm was sung, as Aben Ezra; though it seems best, with Kimchi and others, to understand it as the name of the chief...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
I said,.... That is, in his heart; he purposed and determined within himself to do as follows; and he might express it with his mouth, and so his purpose became a promise; I will take heed to my ways; as every good man should; that is, to all his actions, conduct, and conversation: it becomes him to take heed what ways he walks in; that they are...
Matthew Henry - Complete Commentary - Matthew Henry
David seems to have been in a great strait when he penned this psalm, and, upon some account or other, very uneasy; for it is with some difficulty that he conquers his passion, and composes his spirit himself to take that good counsel which he had given to others (xxxvii.) to rest in the Lord, and wait patiently for him, without fretting; for it...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I said, I will take heed to my ways, It is not everybody who would like to recollect what he has uttered; but David could remember and dwell upon what he had formerly said: “I said, I will take heed to my ways.” That is a good thing to do. He that does not take heed to his ways had need do so. Heedless and careless, and heedless and graceless, are...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I said, “I thought it, and at last I said it. I resolved; I determined upon it; and I registered the vow.” Psa_39:1. I will take heed to my ways, Men never go right by accident, he who is heedless is graceless. A holy life is a life that comes of taking heed. Psa_39:1. That I sin not with my tongue: He who keeps his tongue can keep all the rest of...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I said, I will take heed to my ways, that I sin not with my tongue: I will keep my mouth with a bridle, while the wicked is before me. This is what David said; what he had deliberately resolved upon and solemnly determined in his own mind: “I said, I will take heed to my ways.” That is a good thing for all of us to resolve and to say: “I will take...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I said, I will take heed to my ways, that I sin not with my tongue:-- This government of the tongue is a most important part of our ways; it in a very essential part of holy discipline, yet we have heard of one saint who said that he had lived for seventy years, and had tried to control his tongue, but that he had only begun to understand the art...