Category: Psalms
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Charles Spurgeon on Psalm 127:3-5
I don’t like the way Spurgeon often spiritualizes the OT (probably the result of his reading the OT in light of the NT). However, I’ve never read anything unorthodox from him; I just don’t care for his exegetical method all the time. That said, Spurgeon says some great thing about…
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Psalm 119:97-99
O how love I thy law! it is my study all the day: It makes me wiser than my foes; for it doth with me stay. Than all my teachers now I have more understanding far; Because my meditation thy testimonies are.…
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Psalm 119:69-72
69 The men that are puff’d up with pride against me forg’d a lie; Yet thy commandments observe with my whole heart will I. 70 Their hearts, through worldly ease and wealth, as fat as grease they be: But in thy holy law I take delight continually. 71 It hath…
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Psalm 103
The Lord our God is merciful, and he is gracious, Long-suffering, and slow to wrath, in mercy plenteous. He will not chide continually, nor keep his anger still. With us he dealt not as we sinn’d, nor did requite our ill. O bless the Lord, all ye his works, wherewith…
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Psalm 62
My soul with expectation depends on God indeed; My strength and my salvation doth from him alone proceed He only my salvation is, and my strong rock is he: He only is my sure defense; much mov’d I shall not be. Surely mean men are vanity, and great men are a lie;…
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Psalm 56
When I’m afraid I’ll trust in thee: In God I’ll praise his word: I will not fear what flesh can do, My trust is in the Lord. In God his word I’ll praise; his word In God shall praised be. In God I trust; I will not fear What man…
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Psalm 43
O send thy light forth and thy truth; let them be guides to me, And bring me to thine holy hill, ev’n where thy dwellings be. –Scottish Psalter, 1650
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Psalm 107
I mentioned Psalm 107:23-31 during our Sunday morning service. Here is the Scottish Psalter’s rendition, with an audio you can listen to as well. I love this tune… Who go to sea in ships, and in great waters trading be, Within the deep these men God’s works and his great…
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Psalm 40
O blessed is the man whose trust upon the Lord relies; Respecting not the proud, nor such as turn aside to lies –Scottish Psalter, 1650
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Psalm 37
A little that a just man hath is more and better far Than is the wealth of many such as lewd and wicked are. A good man’s footsteps by the Lord are ordered aright; And in the way wherein he walks he greatly doth delight. Although he fall, yet shall…
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Psalm 27
1 The Lord’s my light and saving health, who shall make me dismay’d? My life’s strength is the Lord, of whom then shall I be afraid? … 7 O Lord, give ear unto my voice, when I do cry to thee; Upon me also mercy have, and do thou answer…
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Psalm 10
Each day I’ve been reading a Psalm from the 1650 Scottish Psalter. Today’s, Psalm 10, describes the character and end of the wicked. I appreciated the poetic rendering of verses 3-11: 3 The wicked of his heart’s desire doth talk with boasting great; He blesseth him that’s covetous, whom yet…
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Psalm 9
9 And they that know thy name, in thee their confidence will place: For thou hast not forsaken them that truly seek thy face. … 17 They who are wicked into hell each one shall turned be; And all the nations that forget to seek the Lord most high. ……
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November 11, 2010
Started the day reading Psalm 143. Noted how the psalmist responds to difficult, overwhelming, heart-rending experiences as related in vv. 3-4— I will meditate on the days of old; I meditate on all Your doings; I muse on the work of Your hands. I stretch out my hands to You;…
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Psalm 109 quote
I’m speaking on Psalm 109 tonight for our Bible study, but just read a great quote– Though they hated and persecuted him for his religion, yet he kept close to it; they laughed at him for his devotion, but they could not laugh him out of it. —Matthew Henry’s Commentary,…
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America’s Child Sacrifice
In Psalm 106 the psalmist praises God for his provision, confesses Israel’s unfaithfulness, and prays for mercy. The bulk of the psalm relates God’s work on behalf of Israel and the nation’s subsequent “forgetting” of God. Note verses 37-38— They even sacrificed their sons and their daughters to the demons,…
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Feelings or Faith?
Psalms 42 and 43 have always provided encouragement and challenge for me. The situations, experiences, and feelings expressed by the psalmist find parallels in the believer’s life today: feeling far from and longing for God grief and remembrance of better times a soul that is in despair and disturbed mourning…
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Dealing With Doubt – Psalm 77
The moment I begin to doubt God because of what I am experiencing (77:1-10) I must recall, meditate, and muse upon God and his great and gracious works (77:11-20). God’s work that the psalmist meditated on was – of course – Israel’s Exodus out of Egypt and through the Red…
Dan Greenfield 