48443 matching verse commentaries
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I was dumb, I opened not my mouth; because thou didst it. You will understand this verse much better if we read it in another tense as it should be: “Now I will be dumb, I will not open my mouth, because thou didst it.” David was wrong the first time when he was dumb, but he is right this second time. Two things may be very like one another...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Remove thy stroke away from me,.... The psalmist still considers his affliction as coming from the hand of God, as his stroke upon him, and which lay as a heavy burden on him, and which God only could remove; and to him he applies for the removal of it, who is to be sought unto by his people to do such things for them; nor is such an application...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Remove thy stroke away from me: Having come to complete submission, he ventures to pray for deliverance from his sorrow. You may pray very boldly, and very freely, when you can truly say, “Thy will be done.” David had said that he would not open his mouth against his God, and now he begins to plead, “Remove thy stroke away from me.” Psa_39:10. I...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Remove thy stroke away from me: I am consumed by the blow of thine hand. When God smites, he never plays at chastisement, and there are times when his blows are very heavy, and then the smitten one cries out, “Remove thy stroke away from me: I am consumed by the blow of thine hand.”
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Remove thy stroke away from me: The child of God, who is perfectly resigned to his heavenly Father’s will may yet pray to be delivered from his trouble. Prayer for deliverance from grief is quite consistent with perfect submission to the will of God. We may pray, for Jesus prayed, “O my Father, if it be possible, let this cup pass from me;” but we...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Remove thy stroke away from me: I am consumed by the blow of thine hand. When thou with rebukes dost correct man for iniquity, thou makest his beauty to consume away like a moth: surely every man is vanity. Selah. Hear my prayer, O Lord, and give ear unto my cry; hold not thy peace at my tears: Tears have ever had great prevalence with God. Christ...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
When thou with rebukes dost correct man for iniquity,.... The psalmist illustrates his own case, before suggested, by the common case and condition of men, when God corrects them; which he has a right to do, as the Father of spirits, and which he does with rebukes; sometimes with rebukes of wrath, with furious rebukes, rebukes in flames of fire,...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
When thou with rebukes dost correct man for iniquity, thou makest his beauty to consume away like a moth: As a moth eats up the fur or the cloth, and spoils it, so, when God’s corrections come upon us, our beauty is soon gone. Poor beauty it must be that can so soon go. Lord, let thy beauty be upon us, for no moth can ever eat into that!...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
When thou with rebukes dost correct man for iniquity, thou makest his beauty to consume away like a moth: Stout, he is reduced to a shadow, comely and beautiful he is wrinkled, and looks like a skeleton, joyful and blithe, he ends his day in mourning. Ah, dear friends, we who have joy, and calm, and peace, ought to be very grateful! Praise God...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Surely every man is vanity. Selah. Hear my prayer, O LORD, “If I cannot do anything else, I can pray, and I will pray.” That is the best relief that mourners have: “Hear my prayer, O Lord.”
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
When thou with rebukes dost correct man for iniquity, thou makest his beauty to consume away like a moth: surely every man is vanity. Selah. When God whips his children, he does not play with them. God is in earnest, if we are not; and when he corrects us, he means us to feel his rod, and he means us to bear the scars it leaves upon us. There must...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Hear my prayer, O Lord,.... Which was, that he would remove the affliction from him that lay so hard and heavy upon him; and give ear unto my cry; which shows the distress he was in, and the vehemency with which he put up his petition to the Lord; hold not thy peace at my tears; which were shed in great plenty, through the violence of the...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Hear my prayer, O LORD, and give ear unto my cry; See how David’s “prayer” grows into a “cry.” It deepens in intensity; there is more power in a cry than in an ordinary prayer, it shows more earnestness, and implies greater urgency: “Hear my prayer, O Lord, and give ear unto my cry.” Psa_39:12. Hold not thy peace at my tears: That is a still more...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And give ear unto my cry; hold not thy peace at my tears: “Do not see me weeping, and yet refuse me comfort and relief. Do not, I pray thee, hear my cry, and yet turn thy back upon me.” Psa_39:12. For I am a stranger with thee, Notice, not a stranger to thee, but, “a stranger with thee. Thou art a stranger in thine own world, and I also am a...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Hear my prayer, O LORD, David is dumb, yet he prays, dumb as to complaints, but eloquent as to pleading with his God. Psa_39:12. And give ear unto my cry; — The psalmist goes from pleading to crying, and believers often thus intensify their prayers. There is something more sorrowful, more earnest, more prevalent, about crying unto God than mere...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For I am a stranger with thee, and a sojourner, as all my fathers were. “I am not a stranger to thee, O my God! Blessed be thy holy name, I know thee well; but ‘I am a stranger with thee.’ Thou art a stranger in shine own world, and so am I. The world knows thee not, and the world knows me not; and when I act as thou actest, the world hateth me...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
O spare me,.... Or "look from me" (f); turn away thy fierce countenance from me; or "cease from me (g), and let me alone"; as in Job 10:20; from whence the words seem to be taken, by what follows: that I may recover strength; both corporeal and spiritual: before I go hence; out of this world by death: and be no more; that is, among men in the land...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
O spare me, — “Deal gently with me; do not break me in pieces. If thou must needs smite me, yet do not altogether crush me. O spare me,” — Psa_39:13. That I may recover strength, before I go hence, and be no more. “Let me be able to take a little nourishment, and to gather my faculties together yet again, that I may sing to thee some sweeter hymn...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
O spare me, that I may recover strength, before I go hence, and be no more. There is much sweet comfort here, though the Psalm reads like a dirge, rather than a hymn. God give us, if we are obliged to sing such words as these, to sing them with a full belief that the Lord will hear us, and will bless our trials to us, and make them work our...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
O spare me, — That is a singular petition, for just now, he seemed to be wanting to get to the end of his days; yet he says, “O spare me,” like Elias, who was afraid to die, and so ran away from Jezebel, and then prayed to God, “Let me die.” So are God’s children still a mass of contradictions, longing for death, and yet, when death comes, they...