Charles Spurgeon

who satisfies you with good things, so that your youth is renewed like the eagle’s.

“Who satisfieth thy mouth with good things, or rather "filling with good thy soul." No man is ever filled to satisfaction but a believer, and only God himself can satisfy even him. Many a worldling is satiated, but not one is satisfied.”

The LORD executes righteousness and justice for all the oppressed.

“The Lord executeth righteousness and judgment for all that are of oppressed. Our own personal obligations must not absorb our song; we must also magnify the Lord for his goodness to others.”

He made known His ways to Moses, His deeds to the people of Israel.

“He made known his ways unto Moses. Moses was made to see the manner in which the Lord deals with men; he saw this at each of the three periods of his life, in the court, in retirement, and at the head of the tribes…”

The LORD is compassionate and gracious, slow to anger, abounding in loving devotion.

“The Lord is merciful and gracious. Those with whom he deals are sinners. However much he favours them they are guilty and need mercy at his hands, nor is he slow to compassionate their lost estate, or reluctant by his grace to lift them out…”

He will not always accuse us, nor harbor His anger forever.

“THIS verse has reference only to the children of God. The Psalm is for them—they alone can sing it and this statement concerns them only—for this reason, that the wrath of the great Judge of all the earth is removed from every true child of…”

He will not always accuse us, nor harbor His anger forever.

“He will not always chide. He will sometimes, for he cannot endure that his people should harbour sin in their hearts, but not for ever will he chasten them; as soon as they turn to him and forsake their evil ways he will end the…”

He has not dealt with us according to our sins or repaid us according to our iniquities.

“He hath not dealt with us after our sins; nor rewarded us according to our iniquities. Else had Israel perished outright, and we also had long ago been consigned to the lowest hell.”

For as high as the heavens are above the earth, so great is His loving devotion for those who fear Him.

“For as the heaven is high above the earth, so great is his mercy toward them that fear him.”

As far as the east is from the west, so far has He removed our transgressions from us.

“As far as the east is from the west, so far hath he removed our transgressions from us. O glorious verse, no word even upon the inspired page can excel it! Sin is removed from us by a miracle of love!”

As a father has compassion on his children, so the LORD has compassion on those who fear Him.

“WHAT a blow this is for our pride! Then God's children are pitiable objects, notwithstanding that He has crowned them with glory and honor, has given them perfection in Christ Jesus, has breathed into them the breath of spiritual life, has set their feet upon…”

As a father has compassion on his children, so the LORD has compassion on those who fear Him.

“IN the former part of this Psalm, the Psalmist sang of God's deeds of love, His gifts, His benefits and His acts of kindness. But here he goes deeper into the Divine motive and, therefore, he finds sweeter incentives to devout gratitude.”

As a father has compassion on his children, so the LORD has compassion on those who fear Him.

“Like as a father pitieth his children, so the Lord pitieth them that fear him. To those who truly reverence his holy name, the Lord is a father and acts as such.”

For He knows our frame; He is mindful that we are dust.

“For he knoweth our frame. He knows how we are made, for he made us. Our make and build, our constitution and temperament, our prevailing infirmity and most besetting temptation he well perceives, for he searches our inmost nature. He remembereth that we are dust.”

As for man, his days are like grass— he blooms like a flower of the field;

“As for man, his days are as grass. He lives on the grass, and lives like the grass. Corn is but educated grass, and man, who feeds on it, partakes of its nature.”

when the wind passes over, it vanishes, and its place remembers it no more.

“For the wind passeth over it, and it is gone. Only a little wind is needed, not even a scythe is demanded, a breath can do it, for the flower is so frail.”

But from everlasting to everlasting the loving devotion of the LORD extends to those who fear Him, and His righteousness to their children’s children—

“But the mercy of the Lord is from everlasting to everlasting upon them that fear him. Blessed but! How vast the contrast between the fading flower and the everlasting God!”

to those who keep His covenant and remember to obey His precepts.

“Children of the righteous are not, however, promised the Lord's mercy without stipulation, and this verse completes the statement of the last by adding: To such as keep his covenant, and to those that remember his commandments to do them.”

The LORD has established His throne in heaven, and His kingdom rules over all.

“The Lord has prepared his throne in the heavens. Here is a grand burst of song produced by a view of the boundless power, and glorious sovereignty of Jehovah. His throne is fixed, for that is the word; it is estabhshed, settled, immovable.”

Bless the LORD, all His angels mighty in strength who carry out His word, who hearken to the voice of His command.

“Bess the Lord, ye his angels, that excel in strength. Finding his work of praise growing upon his hands, he calls upon "the firstborn sons of light" to speak the praises of the Lord, as well they may, for as Milton says, they best can…”

Bless the LORD, all His hosts, you servants who do His will.

“Bless ye the Lord, all ye his hosts; to whatever race of creatures ye may belong, for ye are all his troops, and he is the Generallissimo of all your armies.”

Bless the LORD, all His works in all places of His dominion. Bless the LORD, O my soul!

“Bless the Lord, all his works in all places of his dominion. Here is a trinity of blessing for the thrice blessed God, and each one of the three blessings is an enlargement upon that which went before.”

Bless the LORD, O my soul! O LORD my God, You are very great; You are clothed with splendor and majesty.

“Bless the Lord, O my soul. This psalm begins and ends like the Hundred and Third, and it could not do better: when the model is perfect it deserves to exist in duplicate. True praise begins at home.”

He wraps Himself in light as with a garment; He stretches out the heavens like a tent,

“Who coverest thyself with light as with a garment: wrapping the light about him as a monarch puts on his robe.”

laying the beams of His chambers in the waters above, making the clouds His chariot, walking on the wings of the wind.

“Who layeth the beams of his chambers in the water's. His lofty halls are framed with the waters which are above the firmament.”

He set the earth on its foundations, never to be moved.

“Who laid the foundations of the earth. Thus the commencement of creation is described, in almost the very words employed by the Lord himself in Job 38:4. "Where wast thou when I laid the foundations of the earth?”