-------------------- As of sorrow and joy. O God, my heart is fixed; I will sing and give praise, even with my glory. 2 Awake, psaltery and harp: I myself will awake early. It is frequently best to begin worship with a hymn, and then to bring forth our vials full of odours after the harps have commenced their sweeter sounds. In a different strain, a strain of sarcasm and contempt, he announces his pleasure respecting his vanquished enemies." It is an imprecatory psalm, and of the most bracing variety. The New Testament 3 I will praise thee, O LORD, among the people: and I will sing praises unto thee among the nations. The wheels of a chariot revolve, but the axletree turns not; the sails of a mill move with the wind, but the mill itself moves not; the earth is carried round its orbit, but its centre is fixed. They will come in that day when the whole earth shall be filled with the praises of Jehovah. The tongue, being considered the best member, is here described as the glory of man—as that which tends to elevate him in the scale of creation; and therefore the pious man resolves to employ his speech in giving utterance to the goodness of God. Alas, it is to be feared that the Lord's name is profaned rather than honoured among the heathen by many who are named by the name of Christ. We long for the time when God shall be universally worshipped, and his glory in the gospel shall be everywhere made known. By proceeding, you consent to our cookie usage. 2. "Give us help from trouble: for vain is the help of man." And over Edom chant the song. Whoever may come to hear me, devout or profane, believer or heathen, civilized or barbarian, I shall not cease my music. Amen, so let it be. "That thy beloved [ones] may be delivered, save with thy right hand and answer me." -------------------- Pentateuch Coram Deo. As we know a garden which is watered with sudden showers is more uncertain in its fruit than when it is refreshed with a constant stream; so when our thoughts are sometimes on good things, and then run off; when they only take a glance of a holy object, and then flit away, there is not so much fruit brought into the soul. "I will rejoice." This is expressed, not by comparing Moab to a slave who performs the lowest offices, as presenting to his master the basin for washing his feet, but by comparing him to the mean utensil itself. When we ask ourselves, "Who will be the means of our obtaining a promised blessing?" For confirmation: "Rejoice in the Lord, and again I say rejoice:" they went through Syria and Cilicia again confirming the churches. In honour of that victory the Psalmist warrior may have penned the words in Psa 60:8, "Over Edom will I cast my shoe.". Even though I have to shout in the battle I will also sing in my soul, and if my fingers must needs be engaged with the bow, yet shall they also touch the ten stringed instrument and show forth thy praise. It is a blessed thought, and this is what faith has to lay hold of now, even in the time of trial, that our blessing and God's glory are one, only we must put his glory first. Verse 6. ... (C. H. A song of imprecation. Yet never sleep the sun up; prayer should III. range of evangelical traditions, all of the ideas and principles conveyed He claims by faith the victory, and regards his powerful enemy with contempt. Sometimes the heart is most fixed at the commencement of a spiritual exercise: sometimes at its close. To be sung jubilantly as a national hymn, or solemnly as a sacred psalm. Pauline Epistles Of Edom it is written by Obadiah," The pride of thine heart hath deceived thee, thou that dwellest in the clefts of the rock, whose habitation is high; that saith in his heart, who shall bring me down to the ground? Verse 9.—"Moab is my washpot." The Gospels Praise shared with others - verse 3. The work remains in print today in several editions. TITLE AND SUBJECT. We need not that any new agency should be created, God can strengthen our present hosts and enable them to do all that is needed; all that is wanted even for the conquest of a world is that the Lord go forth with such forces as we already have. The Gospels Spurgeon's wife said that if Spurgeon had never written any other work, this would have been a permanent literary memorial. Between heaven and us; the manna was not good Verse 11. Spurgeon's wife said that if Spurgeon had never written any other work, this would have been a permanent literary memorial. O God, my heart is fixed (v. 1). The word νιπτήρ, used in this last passage, signifies in general a washing-pot, and is put for the word ποδόνιπτρον, the term which the Greeks, in strict propriety of speech, applied to a vessel for washing the feet. For his mercy endures forever." Only when a thoroughly enraptured soul speaks in the instrument can music be acceptable with God: as mere musical sound the Lord can have no pleasure therein, he is only pleased with the thought and feeling which are thus expressed. -------------------- Conversion. See how he resolves on action, like a man whose prayers are only a part of his life, and vital portions of his action. This is written, not only to complete the parallelism of the verse, but to reaffirm his fixed resolve. "Over Edom will I cast out my shoe." We ought to pray with all the more confidence in God when our confidence in man is altogether gone. It is a clear and judicious explanation of the text, and cannot be dispensed with. Some expressions are so admirable that they ought to be used again; who would throw away a cup because he drank from it before? "I will praise the Lord at all times; His praise will always be on my lips. And let my consecrated lyre His Son and Thine reveal in me, Over proud Edom I will cast my shoe, as an angry master to a slave ministering to him. Prophets The New Testament "I will sing and give praise." They wandered in the wilderness in a solitary way; they found no city to dwell in. Verse 2.—With reference to this passage the Talmud says, "A cithern used to hang above David's bed; and when midnight came the north wind blew among the strings, so that they sounded of themselves; and forthwith he arose and busied himself with the Tôra until the pillar of the dawn ascended." Blue Letter Bible is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization. Verse 11 (second clause).—Whether God will go forth with our hosts depends upon—Who they are? O God, my heart is fixed; I will sing and give praise, even with my glory. I myself will awake early. He preached in the same church as C. H. Spurgeon over one hundred years earlier. Canst thou for ever forsake thine own and leave thy people to be overthrown by thine enemies? Psalms … 106:1) ... "Psalm 108" Note the different application of the words as they are used in Psalms 57 and 60. Summary of the Text. TITLE AND SUBJECT.—A Song or Psalm of David. (Ps. This web site has been graciously prepared by one of Spurgeon’s most able students and scholars Phil Johnson. Verse 4.—"For thy mercy is great," etc. 2 Awake, psaltery and harp: I myself will awake early. Ruth 4:7. When our suit is not a selfish one, but is bound up with the cause of God, we may be very bold about it. But, then, for its own deliverance and blessing it looks to the exalting of God. Psalm 108:1 A Song or Psalm of David. He writes: “In this psalm the king begins his day by praising God. In the latter, they are eucharistic for mercies already received, and descriptive of the glorious things which God has prepared for his Son and for Israel his people. Awake, psaltery and harp: I myself will awake early. General Epistles Historical Books Jesus the sole and only lawmaker in the church. Psalms 108:11-13. This seven volume "magnum opus", by Charles H. Spurgeon, was first published in weekly installments over a twenty-year span in the London Metropolitan Tabernacle's periodical, The Sword and the Trowel. GenesisExodusLeviticusNumbersDeuteronomyJoshuaJudgesRuth1 Samuel2 Samuel1 Kings2 Kings1 Chronicles2 ChroniclesEzraNehemiahEstherJobPsalmsProverbsEcclesiastesSong of SongsIsaiahJeremiahLamentationsEzekielDanielHoseaJoelAmosObadiahJonahMicahNahumHabakkukZephaniahHaggaiZechariahMalachiMatthewMarkLukeJohnActsRomans1 Corinthians2 CorinthiansGalatiansEphesiansPhilippiansColossians1 Thessalonians2 Thessalonians1 Timothy2 TimothyTitusPhilemonHebrewsJames1 Peter2 Peter1 John2 John3 JohnJudeRevelation, Select an Ending Point Angels would be called in to aid us, and surely they would come. JOSEPH A ALEXANDER Psalms Commentary (1864) Spurgeon had high praise for Alexander's work writing that it "Occupies a first place among expositions. c. Your beloved: David understood that God loved him, and he appealed to God on that basis. The greatness of the attributes mercy and truth we have in Psa 108:4, "Thy truth reaches unto the clouds"; and there is an answerable greatness in his praises of God for them, Psa 108:5: "Be thou exalted, O God, above the heavens: and thy glory above all the earth." Poetical Books The casting off will not last long when faith so gloriously keeps her hold. 4 A froward heart shall depart from me: I will not know a wicked person. The old songs revived on their lips, and the melodies of David acquired new charms for them. It’s very personal and comes towards the end of the author’s life. Moab and Edom were to be reduced to a state of lowest vassalage to the people of God. Verse 11.—He who came victorious from Edom, and with garments dyed in the blood of his passion from Bozrah, will henceforth now go forth with the armies of the true Israel,—for what are hosts without the Lord of hosts?—to subdue their enemy. Verses 4-5.—The greatness of mercy, the height of truth, and the immensity of the Divine praise. Ephraim and Judah, Moab and Philistia, the Jew first and then the Gentile, were to be brought to confess him as their Lord. Through thee we shall most valiant prove, Pauline Epistles Hold not Thy peace, O God of my praise. In meditation, then, there must be a fixing of the heart upon the object, a steeping the thoughts, as holy David: "O God, my heart is fixed." psa 108:0. Passwords should have at least 6 characters. Historical Books The one was to be like a pot or tub fit only for washing the feet in, while the other was to be like the domestic slave standing by to receive the sandals thrown to him by the person about to perform his ablutions, that he might first put them by in a safe place, and then come and wash his master's feet. Verse 13. The office of washing the feet was in the East commonly performed by slaves, and the meanest of the family, as appears from what Abigail said to David when he took her to wife, "Behold, let thine handmaid be a servant to wash the feet of the servants of my lord," 1Sa 25:41; and from the fact of our Saviour washing his disciples' feet, to give them an example of humility, John 8:5. Luke-Acts Aforetime the Lord had made large promises to David, and these his holiness had guaranteed. Faith is neither a coward nor a sluggard: she knows that God is with her, and therefore she does valiantly; she knows that he will tread down her enemies, and therefore she arises to tread them down in his name. As far as we can see we behold thy truth and faithfulness, and there is much beyond which lies shrouded in cloud, but we are sure that it is all mercy, though it be far above and out of our sight. Wisdom Literature Psalm 108:3 I will praise thee, O LORD, among the people: and I will sing praises unto thee among the nations. "Give us help from trouble: for vain is the help of man.". Or if there must be visible instruments he will use our hosts, feeble as they are. (Spurgeon, C. H. Lectures to my Students: Commenting and Commentaries)Rosscup adds: This is one of the more thorough older exegetical works on the Hebrew … "And mete out the valley of Succoth." The Treasury of David, by Charles Haddon Spurgeon, ... Psalms Chapter 108. ... (C. H. Abraham. The great Charles Spurgeon wrote of Psalm 108, “The Holy Spirit is not so short of expressions that he needs to repeat himself…there must be some other intention in the arrangement of two former divine utterances in a new connection.” Gataker and Lev Clerc illustrate this text from an anecdote related by Herodotus, concerning Amasis, king of Egypt, who expressed the meanness of his own origin by comparing himself to a pot for washing the feet in, (Herod. 107-119 (Book 5a) This work is a compilation drawn, with permission, from the best on the web for viewing Spurgeon’s sermons (www.spurgeon.org ). Scholars assume that the song borrowed from these psalms of the past to confront a problem in the present. Authorship. It was fulfilled to David, but it remains true to the Son of David and all who are on his side. We cannot find it in our heart to dismiss this psalm by merely referring the reader first to Psa 57:7-11 and then to Psa 60:5-12, though it will be at once seen that those two portions of Scripture are almost identical with the verses before us. Psalm … Verses 10-11.—It is not conclusive evidence that we are not called to undertake a given work or perform a certain duty, because it is very difficult, or even impossible for us to succeed without special help from God. Verse 6.—That thy beloved may be delivered, etc. "As we said before so say I now again, if any man preach," etc. [2] [3] John Paul II said that the fusion of Psalms 57 and 60 with Psalm 108 shows that "Israel, already in the Old Testament, was re-using and bringing up-to-date the Word of God revealed". 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General Epistles As the glory of man above the brute creatures, is that from a reasonable mind he can express what is his will by his tongue: so the glory of saints above other men, is to have a tongue directed by the heart, for expressing of God's praise: "I will sing and give praise, even with my glory." Taken from The Treasury of David by Charles Spurgeon Part VIII: Psalms 106-118 "Oh, give thanks to Yahweh, for he is good! "That thy beloved may be delivered: save.". Verse 1.—"O God, my heart is fixed." Poetical Books "And I will sing praises unto thee among the nations." For thy mercy is great above … Released in 2001 on the Psalmody album. The work remains in print today in several editions. This the English reader will only be able to perceive by the use of capitals in the present Psalm and not in Psa 57:7-11. "Manasseh is mine." Luke-Acts Rashi observes, "The dawn awakes the other kings; but I, said David, will awake the dawn.". Verse 4.—The mercy of God was then great above the heavens, when the God-man, Christ Jesus, was raised to the highest heavens, and the truth of our salvation established on the very throne of God. 1. God hath spoken in his holiness; I will rejoice, I will divide Shechem, and mete out the valley of Succoth. With what ardour should such an one pour out his soul! Because the church is God's beloved, the care of it should be most in our mind, and the love of the preservation of it should draw forth our prayer most in favour of it. Poetical Books 4. General Epistles I have it already, and it is to me the token and assurance that the rest of the promised heritage will also come into my possession in due time. Where praise and prayer have preceded the battle, we may expect to see heroic deeds and decisive victories. We have before us THE WARRIOR'S MORNING SONG, with which he adores his God and strengthens his heart before entering upon the conflicts of the day. Go to, To report dead links, typos, or html errors or suggestions about making these resources more useful use our convenient, Spurgeon's Verse Expositions of the Bible, Commentary Critical and Explanatory - Unabridged, Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible, Lange's Commentary on the Holy Scriptures. I here devote my utmost skill Community, Friendship. T. W. Chambers, D. D. I. The Church shall yet arouse herself to praise her God with all her heart, and then with songs and hosannas she will advance to the great battle; her foes shall be overthrown and utterly crushed by the power of her God, and the Lord's glory shall be above all the earth. Please see Blue Letter Bible's Privacy Policy for cookie usage details. The two Psalms, 117th and 118th, are placed together because, though each is a distinct portion in itself, the 117th is an exordium to that which follows it, an address and an invitation to the Gentile and heathen world to acknowledge and praise Jehovah. Henceforth he would apportion the kingdoms of the world and subdue them unto himself at his own holy will. GenesisExodusLeviticusNumbersDeuteronomyJoshuaJudgesRuth1 Samuel2 Samuel1 Kings2 Kings1 Chronicles2 ChroniclesEzraNehemiahEstherJobPsalmsProverbsEcclesiastesSong of SongsIsaiahJeremiahLamentationsEzekielDanielHoseaJoelAmosObadiahJonahMicahNahumHabakkukZephaniahHaggaiZechariahMalachiMatthewMarkLukeJohnActsRomans1 Corinthians2 CorinthiansGalatiansEphesiansPhilippiansColossians1 Thessalonians2 Thessalonians1 Timothy2 TimothyTitusPhilemonHebrewsJames1 Peter2 Peter1 John2 John3 JohnJudeRevelation. The sweet singer is sure that Edom shall be captured, because he cannot and will not believe that God will refrain from going forth with the armies of his chosen people. "Even with my glory"—with my intellect, my tongue, my poetic faculty, my musical skill, or whatever else causes me to be renowned, and confers honour upon me. Minor Prophets Commentaries. Though thou exalt thyself as the eagle, and though thou set thy nest among the stars, thence will I bring thee down, saith the Lord." The New Testament Used by Permission. He has put Naboth to death by false accusation and taken possession of his vineyard, and then he presents prayers to the Almighty. A verification email has been sent to the address you provided. Through thee our faith shall hills remove, THE CRY FOR MERCY (vers. Some rejoicing leads to inaction, but not that which is grounded upon a lively faith in the promise of God. He has devoured the widow's house, and yet he prays. Bible / Our Library / Bible Commentaries / John Gill's Exposition of the Bible / Psalms / Psalms 108; Share Tweet. This Edom is therefore named with anxiety, because after its overthrow, Messiah will shine out "King of kings, and Lord of lords," Rev 19:13-16. "Wilt not thou, O God, who hast cast us off?" Blue Letter Bible study tools make reading, searching and studying the Bible easy and rewarding. The Blue Letter Bible ministry and the BLB Institute hold to the historical, The enemies with whom we battled in our youth are yet alive, and we shall have more brushes with them before we die, but, blessed be God, we are by no means dismayed at the prospect, for we expect to triumph over them even more easily than aforetime.
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