These words will come home with double strength and recommendation, if we consider them as the words of our adorable Redeemer, dictated by the spirit of prophecy. And who but must love Father, Son, and Spirit, in such views of covenant love, and grace, and mercy, as are treasured up in his person; and secured to all his faithful, to all his redeemed, sinners made saints, and preserved, and called, in Christ Jesus? 1 Corinthians 1:2 . read more
REFLECTIONS S TAND still, my soul, and make a solemn pause over the perusal of this most precious Psalm. Did David, indeed, by the spirit of prophecy, here describe Christ? Was the Holy Ghost so graciously attentive to the interests of the church, as to cause such a treasure to be laid up, concerning the Redeemer's exercises, so many ages before his incarnation? Well then mayest thou regard every portion of it as blessed, and while hearing Jesus, in those exercises, thus pleading with the... read more
PSALM XXXI. (BEATI QUORUM.) The second penitential psalm. read more
19-24 Instead of yielding to impatience or despondency under our troubles, we should turn our thoughts to the goodness of the Lord towards those who fear and trust in Him. All comes to sinners through the wondrous gift of the only-begotten Son of God, to be the atonement for their sins. Let not any yield to unbelief, or think, under discouraging circumstances, that they are cut off from before the eyes of the Lord, and left to the pride of men. Lord, pardon our complaints and fears; increase... read more
Confidence and Triumph of Faith v. 14. But I trusted in Thee, O Lord, again spoken with emphasis, "But as for me, in Thee have I confided, O Jehovah. " I said, Thou art my God, his highest Good, his safe Refuge. v. 15. My times, the entire course of the believer's life, are in Thy hand, not subject to blind fate, but to the gracious will of the heavenly Father. Deliver me from the hand of mine enemies, always stretched out to harm him, and from them that persecute me, torturing him with... read more
Psalms 31:0To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David1 In thee, O Lord, do I put my trust;Let me never be ashamed:Deliver me in thy righteousness.2 Bow down thine ear to me; deliver me speedily:Be thou my strong rock, for a house of defenceTo save me.3 For thou art my rock and my fortress;Therefore for thy name’s sake lead me, and guide me.4 Pull me out of the net that they have laid privily for me:For thou art my strength.5 Into thine hand I commit my spirit:Thou hast... read more
Jehovah Preserveth the Faithful Psalms 31:14-24 What a change ensues in the spirit of our life when we look from men and things to God! Do not look at God through circumstances, but at circumstances through God’s environing presence, as through a golden haze. Our Lord’s times were in the hands of the Father, and He would not move an inch until the clock had struck in heaven, John 2:4 ; John 7:6 ; John 7:8 ; John 7:30 ; John 8:20 . As God hath laid up coal and ore in the earth; and as... read more
In this great song of trust struggling through tears to triumph, we have a fine example of an experience often repeated in the history of the children of faith. There are three divisions. In the first (1-8), the double sense of trust and trials clearly manifest. In the second (9-18), the trial seems for a time almost to have overcome the trust, so keen is the consciousness thereof. In the last (19-24), trust has completely triumphed and the sense of the singer is the sense of perfect safety in... read more
‘Oh love YHWH, all you his holy ones, YHWH preserves those who are faithful, And plentifully rewards him who deals arrogantly. Be strong, and let your heart take courage, All you who hope in YHWH.’ The Psalm finally closes with a cry to all God’s people, His ‘holy ones’, to love Him truly, and that because He preserves those who are faithful, while at the same time pouring out abundant judgment on those who behave arrogantly. God’s people are thus to be strong, and to take good courage, because... read more
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James Gray's Concise Bible Commentary - Psalms 31:1-24
Psalms 25:0 In the Hebrew this prayer is arranged as an acrostic, i.e., the first word of each verse begins with a letter in alphabetical order from A-to-Z. Hereafter we shall not give as much attention to every psalm as we have thus far, but trust the reader to do the analyzing after the examples given. The purpose of this book is not so much textual explanation as a stimulus to Bible study in a broader sense, and it is assumed that the reader has been studying the Bible side by side with the... read more