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Spurgeon PS155 EXPOSITION. "_He that putteth not out his money to usury_." Usury was and is hateful both to God and man. That a lender should share with the borrower…

Spurgeon PS141 TITLE.--This admirable ode is simply headed, "_To the Chief Musician by David_." The dedication to the Chief Musician stands at the head of fifty-three of the Psalms, and…

Spurgeon PS142 EXPOSITION. "_The Lord looked down from heaven upon the children of men_." As from a watchtower, or other elevated place of observation, the Lord is represented as gazing…

Spurgeon PS144 EXPOSITION. Hatred of God and corruptness of like are the motive forces which produce persecution. Men who having no saving knowledge of divine things, enslave themselves to become…

Spurgeon PS145 EXPOSITION. Oppressors have it not all their own way, they have their fits of trembling and their appointed seasons of overthrow. _There_--where they denied God and hectored against…

Spurgeon PS146 EXPOSITION. Notwithstanding their real cowardice, the wicked put on the lion's skin and lord it over the Lord's poor ones. Though fools themselves, they mock at the truly…

Spurgeon PS147 EXPOSITION. Natural enough is this closing prayer, for what would so effectually convince atheists, overthrow persecutors, stay sin, and secure the godly, as the manifest appearance of Israel's…

Spurgeon PS131 OCCASION.--The Psalm cannot be referred to any especial event or period in David's history. All attempts to find it a birthplace are but guesses. It was, doubtless, more…

Spurgeon PS133 EXPOSITION. But now prayer lifteth up her voice, like the watchman who proclaims the daybreak. Now will the tide turn, and the weeper shall dry his eyes. The…

Spurgeon PS135 EXPOSITION. What a change is here! Lo, the rain is over and gone, and the time of the singing of birds is come. The mercy-seat has so refreshed…