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John Gill
INTRODUCTION TO Psalms 34 [A Psalm] of David, when he changed his behaviour before Abimelech; who drove him away, and he departed. The author of this psalm is expressed by name; and the time and occasion of it are plainly intimated: it was composed by David, "when he changed his behaviour before Abimelech"; not Ahimelech the priest, sometimes called Abimelech, 1 Chronicles 18:16; to whom David...
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 on in it without shame or fear; against these the...
Matthew Henry
This psalm was penned upon a particular occasion, as appears by the title, and yet there is little in it peculiar to that occasion, but that which is general, both by way of thanksgiving to God an instruction to us. I. He praises God for the experience which he and others had had of his goodness, ver. 1-6. II. He encourages all good people to trust in God and to seek to him, ver. 7-10. III. He...
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 foolish desires; but in a little while it will burst...
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. To cut off the remembrance of them from the...
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.
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 of divine mercy: “The Lord delivereth them out of...
Charles H. Spurgeon
The face of the LORD is against them that do evil, Sets his face against them.
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
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 rot.”