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Spurgeon PS0717 EXPOSITION. We conclude with the joyful contrast. In this all these Psalms are agreed; they all exhibit the blessedness of the righteous, and make its colours the more…

Spurgeon PS0608 EXPOSITION. "Your harps, ye trembling saints, Down from the willows take." Ye must have your times of weeping, but let them be short. Get ye up, get ye…

Spurgeon PS0501 TITLE.--"_To the Chief Musician upon Nehiloth, a Psalm of David_." The Hebrew word Nehiloth is taken from another word, signifying "to perforate," "to bore through," whence it comes…

Spurgeon PS0609 EXPOSITION. "_The Lord hath heard my supplication_." The Holy Spirit had wrought into the Psalmist's mind the confidence that his prayer was heard. This is frequently the privilege…

Spurgeon PS0502 EXPOSITION. "_The voice of my cry_." In another Psalm we find the expression, "The voice of my weeping." Weeping has a voice--a melting, plaintive tone, an ear-piercing shrillness,…

Spurgeon PS0610 EXPOSITION. "_Let all mine enemies be ashamed and sore vexed_." This is rather a prophecy than an imprecation, it may be read in the future. "All my enemies…

Spurgeon PS0503 EXPOSITION. Observe, this is not so much a prayer as a resolution, "'_My voice shalt thou hear_,' I will not be dumb, I will not be silent, I…

Spurgeon PS0504 EXPOSITION. And now the Psalmist having thus expressed his resolution to pray, you hear him putting up his prayer. He is pleading against his cruel and wicked enemies.…

Spurgeon PS0507 EXPOSITION. With this verse the first part of the Psalm ends. The Psalmist has bent his knee in prayer: he has described before God, as an argument for…

Spurgeon PS0508 EXPOSITION. Now we come to the second part, in which the Psalmist repeats his arguments. and goes over the same ground again. "_Lead me, O Lord_," as a…