The Treasury of David
by C.H. Spurgeon

EXPOSITION OF THE PSALMS
(Psalms 10 Verse 16)

Verse 16-18. The Psalm ends with a song of thanksgiving to the great and everlasting King, because he has granted the desire of his humble and oppressed people, has defended the fatherless, and punished the heathen who trampled upon his poor and afflicted children. Let us learn that we are sure to speed well, if we carry our complaint to the King of kings. Rights will be vindicated, and wrongs redressed, at his throne. His government neglects not the interests of the needy, nor does it tolerate oppression in the mighty. Great God, we leave ourselves in thine hand; to thee we commit thy church afresh. Arise, O God, and let the man of the earth -- the creature of a day -- be broken before the majesty of thy power. Come, Lord Jesus, and glorify thy people. Amen and Amen.

 

EXPLANATORY NOTES AND QUAINT SAYINGS

Verse 16. The Lord is King for ever and ever: the heathen are perished out of his land. Such confidence and faith must appear to the world strange and unaccountable. It is like what his fellow citizens may be supposed to have felt (if the story be true) toward that man of whom it is recorded, that his powers of vision were so extraordinary, that he could distinctly see the fleet of the Carthaginians entering the harbour of Carthage, while he stood himself at Lilyboeum, in Sicily. A man seeing across an ocean, and able to tell of objects so far off! he could feast his vision on what others saw not. Even thus does faith now stand at its Lilyboeum, and see the long tossed fleet entering safely the desired haven, enjoying the bliss of that still distant day, as if it were already come. Andrew A. Bonar.

 

HINTS FOR PASTORS AND LAYPERSONS

Verse 16. The Eternal Kingship of Jehovah.