"Lift them up forever." -Psalm 28:9
God's people need lifting up. They are very heavy by nature. They have no wings, or, if they have, they are like the dove...
"My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?" -Psalm 22:1
We here behold the Saviour in the depth of his sorrows. No other place so well shows the griefs of C...
"Say ye to the righteous, that it shall be well with him." -Isaiah 3:10
It is well with the righteous always. If it had said, "Say ye to the righteous, that ...
"All they that see me laugh me to scorn: they shoot out the lip, they shake the head." -Psalm 22:7
Mockery was a great ingredient in our Lord's woe. Judas mo...
"And he shall put his hand upon the head of the burnt offering; and it shall be accepted for him to make atonement for him." -Leviticus 1:4
Our Lord's being ...
"A bundle of myrrh is my well-beloved unto me." -Song of Solomon 1:13
Myrrh may well be chosen as the type of Jesus on account of its preciousness, its perfu...
"The king's garden." -Nehemiah 3:15
Mention of the king's garden by Nehemiah brings to mind the paradise which the King of kings prepared for Adam. Sin has u...
"My heart is like wax; it is melted in the midst of my bowels." -Psalm 22:14
Our blessed Lord experienced a terrible sinking and melting of soul. "The spirit...
"Look upon mine affliction and my pain; and forgive all my sins." -Psalm 25:18
It is well for us when prayers about our sorrows are linked with pleas concern...
"I am poured out like water, and all my bones are out of joint." -Psalm 22:14
Did earth or heaven ever behold a sadder spectacle of woe! In soul and body, ou...
"For there stood by me this night the angel of God." -Acts 27:23
Tempest and long darkness, coupled with imminent risk of shipwreck, had brought the crew of ...
"The place which is called Calvary." -Luke 23:33
The hill of comfort is the hill of Calvary; the house of consolation is built with the wood of the cross; th...
