Michtam ~ from root meaning to mark or engrave

Deliver ~ to bring one outDefend ~ to set on high

“Their malicious speech gushes from them as from a bubbling fountain. The wicked are voluble in slander; their vocabulary of abuse is copious, and as detestable as it is abundant. What torrents of wrathful imprecation will they pour on the godly! They need no prompters, their feelings force for themselves their own vent, and fashion their own expressions.”

C. H. Spurgeon

GNB ~ I have confidence in your strength; you are my refuge, O God.Message ~ Strong God, I’m watching you do it, I can always count on you.

“The greater our present trials the louder will our future songs be, and the more intense our joyful gratitude. Had we no day of trouble, where were our season of retrospective thanksgiving?”

C. H. Spurgeon

shushanudeth – shushan, lily + eduth – covenant

Ps. 60:6-11 = Ps. 108:7-12

Judean Wilderness

“Communion with God is so sweet that the chill of the morning is forgotten, and the luxury of the couch is despised. The morning is the time for dew and freshness, and the Psalmist consecrates it to prayer and devout fellowship.”

C. H. Spurgeon

“There is within the very protoplasm of man those little tentacles that are reaching out for God”

Henry Drummon

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“To dwell with God is better than life at its best; life at ease, in a palace, in health, in honor, in wealth, in pleasure; yea, a thousand lives are not equal to the eternal life which abides in Jehovah’s smile.”

C. H. Spurgeon