Charles Spurgeon

May He remember all your gifts and look favorably on your burnt offerings. Selah

“"Remember all thy offerings, and accept thy burnt sacrifice. Selah." Before war kings offered sacrifice, upon the acceptance of which the depended for success; our blessed Lord presented himself as a victim, and was a sweet savour unto the Most High, and then he met…”

May He give you the desires of your heart and make all your plans succeed.

“"Grant thee according to thine own heart, and fulfil all thy counsel." Christ's desire and counsel were both set upon the salvation of his people; the church of old desired for him good speed in his design, and the church in these latter days, with…”

May we shout for joy at your victory and raise a banner in the name of our God. May the LORD grant all your petitions.

“"We will rejoice in thy salvation." In Jesus there is salvation; it is his own, and hence it is called thy salvation; but it is ours to receive and ours to rejoice in.”

Now I know that the LORD saves His anointed; He answers him from His holy heaven with the saving power of His right hand.

“"Now know I that the Lord saveth his anointed." We live and learn, and what we learn we are not ashamed to acknowledge.”

Some trust in chariots and others in horses, but we trust in the name of the LORD our God.

“Contrasts frequently bring out the truth vividly, and here the church sets forth the creature confidences of carnal men in contrast with her reliance upon the Prince Immanuel and the invisible Jehovah. "Some trust in chariots, and some in horses."”

They collapse and fall, but we rise up and stand firm.

“How different the end of those whose trusts are different! The enemies of God are uppermost at first, but they ere long are brought down by force, or else fall of their own accord.”

O LORD, save the king. Answer us on the day we call.

“The Psalm is here recapitulated. That Jesus might himself be delivered, and might then, as our King, hear us, is the two-fold desire of the Psalm.”

O LORD, the king rejoices in Your strength. How greatly he exults in Your salvation!

“"The king shall joy in thy strength, O Lord." Jesus is a Royal Personage. The question, "Art thou a King then?" received a full answer from the Saviour's lips: "Thou sayest that I am a King.”

You have granted his heart’s desire and have not withheld the request of his lips. Selah

“"Thou hast given him his heart's desire." That desire he ardently pursued when he was on earth, both by his prayer, his actions, and his suffering; he manifested that his heart longed to redeem his people, and now in heaven he has his desire granted…”

For You welcomed him with rich blessings; You placed on his head a crown of pure gold.

“OUR text is one of many instances of the way in which words change their meanings. The word, "prevent," as we now use it, has a very different meaning from that which it had when our translators used it.”

For You welcomed him with rich blessings; You placed on his head a crown of pure gold.

“"For thou preventest him with the blessings of goodness." The word prevent formerly signified to precede or go before, and assuredly Jehovah preceded his Son with blessings.”

He asked You for life, and You granted it— length of days, forever and ever.

“"He asked life of thee, and thou gavest it him, even length of days for ever and ever." The first words may suit King David, but the length of days for ever and ever can only refer to the King Messiah.”

Great is his glory in Your salvation; You bestow on him splendor and majesty.

“I FEEL quite sure that David here sings first concerning himself and then concerning the far greater King, "great David's greater Son," the Lord Jesus Christ.”

Great is his glory in Your salvation; You bestow on him splendor and majesty.

“"His glory is great in thy salvation." Immanuel bears the palm; he once bore the cross. The Father has glorified the Son, so that there is no glory like unto that which surroundeth him.”

For You grant him blessings forever; You cheer him with joy in Your presence.

“"For thou hast made him most blessed for ever." He is most blessed in himself, for he is God over all, blessed for ever; but this relates to him as our Mediator, in which capacity blessedness is given to him as a reward.”

For the king trusts in the LORD; through the loving devotion of the Most High, he will not be shaken.

“"For the king trusteth in the Lord." Our Lord, like a true King and leader, was a master in the use of the weapons, and could handle well the shield of faith, for he has set us a brilliant example of unwavering confidence in God.”

Your hand will apprehend all Your enemies; Your right hand will seize those who hate You.

“"Thine hand shall find out all thine enemies: thy right hand shall find out those that hate thee." The destruction of the wicked is a fitting subject for joy to the friends of righteousness; hence here, and in most scriptural songs, it is noted with…”

You will place them in a fiery furnace at the time of Your appearing. In His wrath the LORD will engulf them, and the fire will consume them.

“"Thou shalt make them as a fiery oven in the time of thine anger." They themselves shall be an oven to themselves, and so their own tormentors. Those who burned with anger against thee shall be burned by thine anger.”

You will wipe their descendants from the earth, and their offspring from the sons of men.

“"Their fruit shalt thou destroy from the earth." Their life's work shall be a failure, and the result of their toil shall be disappointment.”

Though they intend You harm, the schemes they devise will not prevail.

“"For they intended evil against thee." God takes notice of intentions. He who would but could not is as guilty as he who did.”

For You will put them to flight when Your bow is trained upon them.

“"Therefore shalt thou make them turn their back, when thou shalt make ready thine arrows upon thy strings against the face of them."”

Be exalted, O LORD, in Your strength; we will sing and praise Your power.

“"Be thou exalted, Lord, in thine own strength." A sweet concluding verse. Our hearts shall join in it. It is always right to praise the Lord when we call to remembrance his goodness to his Son, and the overthrow of his foes.”

My God, my God, why have You forsaken me? Why are You so far from saving me, so far from my words of groaning?

“"My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?" This was the startling cry of Golgotha: Eloi, Eloi, lama sabacthani. The Jews mocked, but the angels adored when Jesus cried this exceeding bitter cry.”

I cry out by day, O my God, but You do not answer, and by night, but I have no rest.

“"O my God, I cry in the daytime, but thou hearest not." For our prayers to appear to be unheard is no new trial, Jesus felt it before us, and it is observable that he still held fast his believing hold on God, and cried…”

Yet You are holy, enthroned on the praises of Israel.

“"But thou art holy, O thou that inhabitest the praises of Israel." However ill things may look, there is no ill in thee, O God!”