C.H. Spurgeon

Psalm 6 – Part One TITLE. This Psalm is commonly known as the first of the PENITENTIAL PSALMS, (The other six are 32, 38, 51, 102, 130, 143) and certainly its language well becomes the lip of a penitent, for it expresses at once the sorrow, (verses 3, 6, 7), the humiliation (verses 2 and […]

Psalm 5 – Part Three 8 Lead me, O Lord, in thy righteousness because of mine enemies; make thy way straight before my face. 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 little child is led by its

Psalm 5 – Part Two 3 My voice shalt thou hear in the morning, O Lord; in the morning will I direct my prayer unto thee, and will look up. “And will look up,” or, as the Hebrew might better be translated, “‘I will look out,’ I will look out for the answer; after I have prayed,

Psalm 5 – Part One 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 to mean a pipe or a flute; so that this song was probably intended to be sung with an accompaniment of

Psalm 4 – Part Three 6 There be many that say, Who will shew us any good? Lord, lift thou up the light of thy countenance upon us. We have now entered upon the third division of the Psalm, in which the faith of the afflicted one finds utterance in sweet expressions of contentment and peace. There

Psalm 4 – Part Two 2 O ye sons of men, how long will ye turn my glory into shame? how long will ye love vanity, and seek after leasing? Selah. In this second division of the Psalm, we are led from the closet of prayer into the field of conflict. Remark the undaunted courage of

Psalm 4 – Part One TITLE. This Psalm is apparently intended to accompany the third, and make a pair with it. If the last may be entitled THE MORNING PSALM, this from its matter is equally deserving of the title of THE EVENING HYMN. May the choice words of the 8th verse be our sweet

Psalm 3 – Part Two 3 But thou, O Lord, art a shield for me; my glory, and the lifter up of mine head. 4 I cried unto the Lord with my voice, and he heard me out of his holy hill. Selah. Here David avows his confidence in God. “Thou, O Lord, art a shield for me.” The word

Psalm 3 – Part One TITLE. “A Psalm of David, when he fled from Absalom his Son.” You will remember the sad story of David’s flight from his own palace, when in the dead of the night, he forded the brook Kedron, and went with a few faithful followers to hide himself for awhile from

Psalm 2 – Part Three 8 Ask of me, and I shall give thee the heathen for thine inheritance, and the uttermost parts of the earth for thy possession. 9 Thou shalt break them with a rod of iron; thou shalt dash them in pieces like a potter’s vessel. “Ask of me” It was a custom among