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John Gill
INTRODUCTION TO Psalms 118 Kimchi says their Rabbins are divided about this psalm. Some understand it of David; others of the Messiah: but, with us Christians, there ought to be no doubt of its belonging to the Messiah; since our Lord has quoted a passage out of it, and applied it to himself, Psalms 118:22; see Matthew 21:42; and so has the Apostle Peter, Acts 4:11. Nor did the Jews of those...
John Gill
I called upon the Lord in distress,.... Or "out of that strait" (q); when David was encompassed by Saul and his men, or when at the court of Achish, or when his own people talked of stoning him. As this may respect the Messiah, it may design his distresses in the garden, when surrounded with sorrow, and being in an agony prayed the more earnestly, and his sweat was as it were great drops of...
Matthew Henry
It is probable that David penned this psalm when he had, after many a story, weathered his point at last, and gained a full possession of the kingdom to which he had been anointed. He then invites and stirs up his friends to join with him, not only in a cheerful acknowledgment of God's goodness and a cheerful dependence upon that goodness for the future, but in a believing expectation of the...
Charles H. Spurgeon
I called upon the LORD in distress: “I” nothing like coming to particulars and personalities. “ I.”
Charles H. Spurgeon
The LORD answered me, and set me in a large place. The LORD is on my side; I will not fear: what can man do unto me? “What is man? He is but as the dust before God, and, when God is with us and takes care of us, what can man, that is as a moth, do to God’s preserved ones?
Charles H. Spurgeon
I called upon the LORD in distress: the LORD answered me, and set me in a large place. I think many of us could make just such a record as that and not once but many times in our lives, we could say, “I called upon the Lord in distress.” We have had many trials, but we have a mercy-seat always to fly to, and a God always ready to hear the cries of his distressed ones.