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Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Behold, thou hast made my days as an handbreadth; — That is a very short measure, the breadth of a hand, the space that we can span with one of our hands, yet that is the true measure of our life: “Thou hast made my days as an handbreadth;” — Psa_39:5. And mine age is as nothing before thee: — What are seventy or eighty years, even if we live so...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Behold, thou hast made my days as, an handbreadth; This is a very common measure, the breadth of the human hand; and David says that this span is the measure of his life. Some here must surely have spent a great part of that handbreadth; let them and all of us be prepared to meet our God when that short span’s limit is reached. Psa_39:5. And mine...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Surely every man walketh in a vain show,.... Or "in an image" (z); not "in the image of the Lord", as the Targum; in the image in which God created man, for that is lost; nor in that which is stamped on men in regeneration; for every man does not walk in that; rather in the image of fallen man, in which every man is born and walks: or "in a...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Surely every man walketh in a vain show: Like players, or actors, all of us are walking in a phantom show; which is not really anything, but only seems to be. Psa_39:6. Surely they are disquieted in vain: They make a dreadful noise in the tumult of the battle, the din of the exchange, the hum of the streets, the fret and worry of the...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Surely every man walketh in a vain show: He is a shadow walking among shadows. Psa_39:6. Surely they are disquieted in vain: They fret and fume about nothing. Psa_39:6. He heapeth up riches, and knoweth not who shall gather them. He is busy with a rake, but another will be busy with a fork. What the miser gathers the spendthrift scatters.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Surely every man walketh in a vain shew: This world is a mere theater, and men strut across its stage, acting their various parts. They come and they go as if they were mere figures moved by invisible wires; the most of men do not live at all, but only seem to live for they have not the true, spiritual, eternal life within them. Every man walks...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Surely every man walketh in a vain shew: surely they are disquieted in vain: They fret, and fume, and flurry, and worry, and all about what? About nothing. We sometimes say, “It will be all the same a hundred years hence.” Ah! but it will be all the same much sooner than that, when the six feet of earth shall be all our heritage. Psa_39:6. He...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
And now, Lord, what wait I for?.... Look for, or expect, in this view of things? not long life, since the days of man are so short, and his age as nothing; not help from man, since he is altogether vanity; not riches and honour, since they are such poor, fading, perishing things; but the glories of another world, and the enjoyment of the Lord...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And now, Lord, what wait I for? my hope is in thee. There is no vanity in that declaration. Now we are on the rock, now we have come to something real. When a man trusts in the unchanging God, and hopes in the ever-blessed Saviour, he has come out of his state of vanity: “My hope is in thee.”
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And now, Lord, what wait I for? “Do I wait to gather riches for another to squander? Do I wait to worry myself? Do I wait here to walk as a vanity in the midst of vanities? No, Lord, I am waiting for something better than that!” Psa_39:7. My hope is in thee. Here the psalmist steps off the sand, and puts his foot on the rock. Happy is the man who...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And now, Lord, what wait I for? The psalmist improves as he advances. Now you see that he is cut loose from the world. He has seen the vanity of man, and he has seen the vanity of wealth, so he says, “’Now, Lord, what wait I for? What is there here, in this land of shadows, that I should wait for? Why sit I down where nothing good has ever come,...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And now, Lord,- If all earthly things are nothing but emptiness,- Psa_39:7.What wait I for? “I wait for nothing here, for there is nothing here to wait for.” Psa_39:7. My hope is in thee. Ah! this hope makes life worth living. Now that we hope in God, now that we know that there remaineth another and a better world than this world of shadows, life...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Deliver me from all my transgressions,.... Which were the cause and occasion of all his distresses, inward and outward; and the deliverance prayed for includes a freedom from the dominion of sin, which is by the power of efficacious grace; and from the guilt of sin, which is by the application of the blood of Christ; and from obligation to...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Deliver me from all my transgressions: We had not expected David to offer that prayer, we might have thought that he would say, “Deliver me from all my troubles, and from my many vexing thoughts.” But no, he lays the axe at the root of the evil: “Deliver me from all my transgressions.” There is only One who can do that, even the glorious Son of...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Deliver me from all my transgressions: When he gets near to God, he sees himself to be a sinner.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Make me not the reproach of the foolish. I was dumb, I opened not my mouth; because thou didst it. That is fine silence when a man will not complain because his affliction comes from the hand of God. There is something better even than that when a man breaks the silence, and begins to praise God under the rod. A mute Christian smarting under the...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Deliver me from all my transgressions: That is a better prayer than if David had said, “Deliver me from all my sorrows.” Now he has hit the very center of the target: “Deliver me from all my transgressions.” So let each one of us pray at this moment, “O Lord, I do not ask to be saved from thy rod, but I do ask to be washed from my sin. Do what...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Deliver me from all my transgressions: make me not the reproach of the foolish. I was dumb, I opened not my mouth; because thou didst it. It is always a blessed reason for resignation when we can say of any bereavement or affliction, “The Lord has done it.” Shall he not do as he wills with his own? Then let us say, with Job, “The Lord gave, and...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
I was dumb, I opened not my mouth,.... This refers either to his former silence, before he broke it, Psalms 39:1, or to what he after that came into again, when he had seen the folly of his impatience, the frailty of his life, the vanity of man, and all human affairs, and had been directed to place his hope and confidence in the Lord, Psalms 39:5;...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I was dumb, I opened not my mouth, because thou didst it. This verse should read, “I will be dumb, I will not open my mouth, because thou hast done it.” That is a better silence than the first, for the psalmist is getting into a right state. This is the proper silence, the other was brazen, this is golden. God help us to know how and when to...