Category: Religion/Spirituality
4 When I remember these things, I pour out my soul in me: For I had gone with the multitude, I went with them to the house of God, With the voice of joy and praise,--with a multitude that kept holy day.
4 When I remember these things, I pour out my soul in me: For I had gone with the multitude, I went with them to the house of God, With the voice of joy and praise,--with a mult...
2. Part 2"He looked," says Matthew Henry, "upon the living God as his chief good, and had set his heart upon Him accordingly, and was resolved to live and die by Him; and casting anchor...
3. Part 3The fact is, it is the very grandeur of the soul which leads it thus to pant after God. Small things satisfy a small capacity, but what is made receptive of the vast and gloriou...
4. Part 4For David's present condition and experience in the land of his exile--the feeling of utter isolation throbbing through the pulses of his soul,--there were required some extraor...
5. Part 5All the more poignant, too, were these taunts in the case of David, because too well did he know that such reproaches were merited,--that he himself had furnished his enemies wi...
6. Part 6Jerusalem was the pride and glory of the Jew. Wherever he went, he turned to it as to his best and fondest home. The windows of Daniel's chamber were "open _towards Jerusalem_."...
7. Part 7"_Why art thou cast down?_" Is it outward trial that assails thee? Has calamity abridged thy earthly comforts? Have the golden heaps thou mayest have been a lifetime in amassing...
8. Part 81. He may possibly refer to his present sojourn in the region beyond Jordan, with the Hermon range in sight; and which had this peculiarity, that it was beyond the old boundary-...
9. Part 9We believe there are periods in the history of most of God's people corresponding to the awful experience recorded in this verse. Few there are who cannot point to some sad and...
10. Part 10Believer in Jesus! with all thy trials, thou art a happy man. Go on thy way rejoicing. Tribulation may fret and ruffle the calm of thy outer life, but nothing can touch the deep...
11. Part 11We have now reached the close of this instructive Psalm--the last entry in the experience of the Royal Exile. Here is the grand summing up--"the conclusion of the whole matter."...