Psalms 123

Set yourselves when you pray as in God's presence: could you but look through the keyhole of heaven, and see how devout and intent the Angels are in their worshipping God, sure you would be ready to blush at your vain thoughts and wild impertinencies in prayer. 2. If you would k…

Our foolish hearts soon grow impatient, and we cannot dance after attendance upon God; and therefore in this case though flesh and blood be short winded, and soon weary, yet the truth is, this unction when it works in us a spirit of hope, it still waits upon God, it sets itself…

Vers. 1. And when Hezekiah heard it, he rent his clothes, and put on sackcloth, and came into the house of the Lord. The Prophet shows that nothing remained to this good King but one only hope of salvation; namely, to pour out his complaints into God's bosom, who is a just judge…

And truly if we shall consider the estate of this so great and mighty a Monarchy, which had not then so much as any appearance of ever being ruinated, we may safely affirm that the time was very short. Thus then, whereas we think God's promises long in performing, we shall estee…

Therefore, seeing that God has called them to that estate, they ought so to frame and inure themselves in their duties, that they show their subjection and testify their submission to their Masters, honor them, reverence them, be serviceable to them, and carefully look to their…

So that the meaning is only this, that Satan left off speaking with God, left off moving God any further at that time, and went out to execute that which he got commission to do, as servants go out from the presence of their masters, when they have received warrant or direction…

They ought likewise to testify their reverence in their actions, comporting themselves with all the expressions of modesty and respect before them, and readily doing not only what their masters shall expressly command them, but what they judge will be pleasing and acceptable to…

The particular work which pertains to a servant by virtue of his place is to have an eye to his master, to see what he requires at his hands. David thus describes the property of good servants: "Their eyes look to the hand of their master" (Psalm 123:2). That looking, as it impl…

I know God does sometimes come in upon the soul instantly, in a moment as it were, wounding and healing it; as I am persuaded it was in the case of David when he cut off the lap of Saul's garment. But ordinarily in such a case God calls for waiting and laboring, attending as the…

Though it may seem somewhat long to you, while you are under your trouble and perplexity, yet it shall surely come in the appointed time of the Lord Jesus, which is the best season. If then you can raise up your heart to a settled expectation of relief from Jesus Christ; if your…

2. It teaches, the great work of prayer is to lift up the heart to God; to withdraw the heart from all created things which we see and feel here below, that we may converse with God in Heaven. Psalm 123:1. (Psalm 123:1) To you lift I up my eyes, O you that dwell in the heavens.…

It becomes suitors to wait. Faith stays upon God, Patience stayes for God, Psalm 123:2. As the Eyes of Servants look to the hand of their Masters, so our Eyes wait upon the Lord our God, untill he have Mercy upon us.

Let us remember our promises made to God, and then desire him to remember his promises to us. The next part of the qualification is, if you be believers, and can wait and depend upon God, though he seems to delay, and forget his promise: our eyes must wait upon the Lord, until h…

2. It is a grievous temptation, it is reckoned in Scripture among the persecutions (Galatians 4:29). As he that was born after the flesh, persecuted him that was born after the spirit, even so it is now: He means those bitter mockings that Isaac did suffer from Ishmael (Genesis…

You may expect relief, and protection, and maintenance: servants have their dole and portion from their master's hands. (Psalm 123:2) "As the eyes of servants look to the hand of their masters, and as the eyes of a maiden to the hand of her mistress, so our eyes wait upon the Lo…

There is a slighting of God's authority, and a lifting up our will against the will of God. 2. Because they are drunk with worldly felicity, and never think of changes (Psalm 123:4). Our soul is exceedingly filled with the scorning of those that are at ease, and with the contemp…

Now these shall have what they wait for, or a supply of strength yet enabling them to bear up, or hold out, when they seem to be clean spent. Psalm 123:2. Behold, as the eyes of servants look to the hand of their master, and the eyes of a maiden to the hand of her mistress: so o…

3. It is a constant and unconquerable expectation, not broken with present difficulties, but sustains the soul, till our full and final deliverance comes to hand. Psalm 123:2: As the eyes of servants look to the hands of their masters, and the eyes of maidens to the hands of the…

Pride disdains the meanness of God's people, and that they should have any subsistence, and thinks they may oppress them freely, and root them out. Psalm 123:4: "We are filled with the scorning of those that are at ease, and with the contempt of the proud." They scorn the people…

Hence the word that notes a staff (2 Samuel 22:18; Isaiah 3): the Lord has broken the stay and the staff of bread (Isaiah 30:1), and this is to be done often, when there is no present duty to be done, nor any work required of us, but only a fiducial relying upon the Lord alone,…

Before we have drunk of the bitter Cup, instead of pitying others in misery, we are ready to despise them. Psalm 123:4. Our soul is filled with the scorning of them which are at ease.

Suppose that God gives us a heart to see that we have crucified Christ, and yet to see there is salvation, even in that wicked act, and that there is plenteous redemption in him, if yet God does delay us, and does not reveal the Lord Jesus to be ours, then the soul looks up to C…