?EXPOSITION Verse 8. The Lord shall preserve thy going out and thy coming in from this time forth, and even for evermore. When we go out in the mornin...
PSALM 102 Psalms 102:1-28 . A Prayer of the afflicted, &c.--The general terms seem to denote the propriety of regarding the Psalm as suitably...
?EXPOSITION Verse 7. The Lord shall preserve thee from all evil, or keep thee from all evil. It is a great pity that our admirable translation did not...
PSALM 131 OVERVIEW. Title. A Song of Degrees of David. It is both by David and of David: he is the author and the subject of it, and many incidents of...
?EXPOSITION Verse 4. Behold, he that keepeth Israel shall neither slumber nor sleep. The consoling truth must be repeated: it is too rich to be dismis...
?EXPOSITION Verse 3. He will not suffer thy foot to be moved. Though the paths of life are dangerous and difficult, yet we shall stand fast, for Jehov...
CHAPTER VII. Reading and Studying?At Family Prayers?A Word, in Season?Helpful Questions. MERELY reading the Bible is not what God wants. There is n...
THE SONG OF DEGREES OR THE GRADUAL PSALMS. This little psalter within the psalter consists of fifteen brief songs. Why they are grouped together and...
Chapter?121Some call this the soldier?s psalm, and think it was penned in the camp, when David was hazarding his life in the high places of the field,...
INTRODUCTION The Hebrew title of this book is Tehilim (praises or hymns), for a leading feature in its contents is praise, though the word occurs i...
?EXPOSITION Verse 6. The sun shall not smite thee by day, nor the moon by night. None but the Lord could shelter us from these tremendous forces. Thes...
?EXPOSITIONVerse 23. Awake, why sleepest thou, O Lord. God sleepeth not, but the psalmist puts it so, as if on no other theory he could explain the di...
?EXPOSITIONVerse 4. They run and prepare themselves without my fault. They are all alive and active, they are swift to shed blood. They prepare and us...
Know, Knowledge The Old Testament. The Hebrew root yada [[;dy],translated know/knowledge, appears almost 950 times in the HebrewBible. It has a wider...
?EXPOSITIONVerse 8. Sweet Evening Hymn! I shall not sit up to watch through fear, but I will lie down; and then I will not lie awake listening to ever...
?EXPOSITION Verse 5. The Lord is thy keeper. Here the preserving One, who had been spoken of by pronouns in the two previous verses, is distinctly nam...
?EXPOSITION Verse 6. Nor for the pestilence that walketh in darkness. It is shrouded in mystery as to its cause and cure, it marches on, unseen of men...
Chapter?120This psalm is the first of those fifteen which are here put together under the title of songs of degrees.?? It is well that it is not mater...
Chapter?124David penned this psalm (we suppose) upon occasion of some great deliverance which God wrought for him and his people from some very threat...
Disease [N]To understand the biblical records concerning illness it is necessary to think oneself back into a world that knew nothing of germs, bacter...