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The title of this Psalm is, “A Psalm of David, when he changed his behavior before Abimelech (or, Achish); who drove him away, and he departed.” It relates to a sad scene in David’s life when he had to feign madness in order to escape from his enemies; but I notice that, although the fact is recorded, yet David does not dwell upon it in the Psalm. He had acted as a fool or a madman, but he was not fool enough, or mad enough, to glory in his shame. I have heard some men, whose past lives have been very disgraceful, who, after their professed conversion, have seemed to make a boast of their sin. David does not do that, nor will any other right-minded person. Let us always be ashamed of our sin, even while we magnify the grace of God which has saved us from it. Though we may feel that it is needful to mention it in order to encourage others to hope in the mercy of God, yet we must take care that we never even seem to dwell upon it with any kind of gusto. Thus the Psalm begins:-

Psa_34:1. I will bless the LORD at all times:

“Whether the times are dark or light, whether I feel well or ill, whether the Lord deals with me graciously or severely, I will bless him at all times.”

Psa_34:1. His praise shall continually be in my mouth.

What a blessed mouthful! If we could but carry out this resolve of David, we should not find so much fault with others as we often do. We shall have little or no opportunity for grumbling and murmuring if praise to Jehovah shall continually be in our mouth.

Psa_34:2. My soul shall make her boast in the LORD:

All men are more or less given to boasting but it seems to be specially characteristic of Englishmen and Americans. Well, there is a right way of boasting; if you can truly say, “My soul shall make her boast in the Lord,” you may boast away as much as you like.

Psa_34:2. The humble shall hear thereof, and be glad.

Any other kind of boasting makes humble people sad; but when we boast in the Lord, the more we boast the more the humble rejoice.

Psa_34:3. O magnify the LORD with me, and let us exalt his name together.

Let each one of us throw his stone upon the cairn to make the heap as high as possible, for every one has some peculiar cause for gratitude and thanksgiving.

Psa_34:4. I sought the LORD, and he heard me, and delivered me from all my fears,

It was a very poor way of seeking the Lord when he had got into the hand of the Philistines, and was planning in his own mind a disgraceful way of escaping from them. It was not that calm quiet calling upon God that one would have liked to see in David. Still, God heard him, and that makes the deliverance all the more wonderful.

Psa_34:5. They looked unto him.

“All these people that have come at my call to join me in praising the Lord: “They looked unto him,” —

Psa_34:5. And were lightened: and their faces were not ashamed.

No, not one of them; if they looked to God, light shone from God upon their faces, and their faces glowed with the holy radiance, so they had no reason to be ashamed.

Psa_34:6-7. This poor man cried, and the LORD heard him, and saved him out of all his troubles. The angel of the LORD encampeth round about them that fear him, and delivereth them.

David’s deliverance had been so special that he could not help feeling that some special deliverer had been employed on his behalf; “the angel of the Lord” had been sent to his help. Then David, why did you act like a madman? Ah! that was through his want of faith, yet even want of faith must not make us rob God of his glory. What though we were unbelieving, he was faithful, therefore let us give him his due meet of praise. Let us try to blot out the remembrance of our own weakness with our tears, but let us not erase the memory of God’s lovingkindness to us.

Psa_34:8. O taste and see that the LORD is good: blessed is the man that trusteth in him.

You may not only believe that God is good, but it may become a matter of experience with you: “O taste and see that the Lord is good.” You cannot see the goodness of God to perfection without tasting it, so use the sense of taste as well as that of sight. Some people want first to see, and then to taste, but David says, “Taste and see.”

Psa_34:9-10. O fear the LORD, ye his saints: for there its no want to them that fear him. The young lions do lack,-

They are strong, cunning, ravenous, yet they “do lack,” —

Psa_34:10. And suffer hunger:

They try to take care of themselves, and therefore they get badly taken care of.

Psa_34:10. But they that seek the LORD shall not want any good thing.

When God takes care of us, we are well taken care of, though we are not lions, but sheep; for we have a Shepherd, and the lions have not, so we “shall not want any good thing.”

Psa_34:11. Come, ye children, hearken unto me: I will teach you the fear of the LORD.

I should not wonder but that, when David played the madman, and scrabbled on the doors of the gate, the children in the streets gathered round him, and mocked him. Wherever we have done harm to any, let us try to do them good. So did David; he sought to gather the children about his knees, and to talk to them: “Come, ye children.” He does not begin by saying, “Stand off, ye children.” There would be no teaching them in that way; you must seek to draw them to yourselves if you would draw them to your Lord. “Come, ye children, hearken unto me: I will teach you the fear of the Lord.” Though David had been anointed king, he remained a teacher of children, and the highest honour we can have is, for Christ’s sake, to teach the little ones. Children love bright, happy teaching; they naturally desire life and happiness; so David begins:-

Psa_34:12-13.What man is he that desireth life, and loveth many days, that he may see good? Keep thy tongue from evil, and thy lips from speaking guile.

Children’s tongues are very active, and they need to be reminded that their tongues must be sanctified or they will say what is evil. David had both spoken and acted with guile at the court of Achish, so he particularly dwelt upon that matter. “Depart from evil,” — run away from it; not merely do not do it, but get away from it: “Depart from evil, and do good.”

Psa_34:15. The eyes of the LORD are upon the righteous,

He does not merely give a glance at them now and then, but his eyes rest on them, he is always watching them.

Psa_34:15. And his ears are open unto their cry.

The translators put in the words “are open,” but they were not needed.

Psa_34:16. The face of the LORD is against them that do evil,-

You know what we mean when we say, “I set my face against it.” So God sets his face against the wicked. Note how near both the righteous and the wicked are to an observing God. In the first case, his eyes are upon the righteous; in the second, his face “is against them that do evil,” —

Psa_34:16. To cut off the remembrance of them from the earth.

He will stamp them out as men do with fire. He will not even let them be remembered; he will take means to ensure that their unholy example shall die with them.

Psa_34:17. The righteous cry, and the LORD heareth, and delivereth them out of all their troubles.

That is something to teach the children, teach them from your own experience, that God does hear and answer prayer; teach them to pray to God always, and to believe that prayer has real and beneficial results: “The Lord heareth, and delivereth them out of all their troubles.”

Psa_34:18. The LORD is nigh unto them that are of a broken heart; and saveth such as be of a contrite spirit.

We often hear of people who die of a broken heart; but here we read about people who live with a broken heart, and it is the best way of living too, with a heart that is broken for sin, and broken from sin, a heart that in every portion of it feels the power of God.

Psa_34:19. Many are the afflictions of the righteous:-

Do not tell the children that the good are always happy, and that the good escape trial, because you will deceive them if you do. “Many are the afflictions of the righteous,” — the happiness, the glory, the heaven of the righteous is not here, but hereafter. “Many are the afflictions of the righteous”:-

Psa_34:19.But-

Blessed “but” —

Psa_34:19. The LORD delivereth him out of them all.

Not only out of some of them, but “out of them all.” The righteous do not get out of them by their own power, but the Lord delivereth them; they have a Divine Helper.

Psa_34:20. He keepeth all his bones. Not one of them is broken.

The righteous may have skin wounds, and flesh wounds, but they shall not suffer any real hurt. God will not let his people be so injured as to be incapable of holiness. There shall be no bone-breaking in Christ’s mystical body, even as not one of the bones of Christ was broken.

Psa_34:21. Evil shall slay the wicked:

Sin itself shall slaughter them.

Psa_34:21-22. And they that hate the righteous shall be desolate. The LORD redeemeth the soul of his servants: and none of them that trust in him shall be desolate.



Psa_34:1 I will bless the LORD at all times: his praise shall continually be in my mouth.

What a sweet resolve! Oh, that every one of us who knows the Lord would make that resolve, and keep it all our days: “I will bless the Lord at all times;” in dark times and bright times, as long as ever I live. “His praise shall continually be in my mouth;” that is the most delightful mouthful that a man can possibly have.

Psa_34:2. My soul shall make her boast in the LORD:

We do not like boasters, but we would encourage every child of God to boast in the Lord as much as he pleases.

Psa_34:2. The humble shall hear thereof, and be glad.

There is nothing that humble people dislike more than to hear others boasting: yet there is nothing that they like more than to hear anyone boast in the Lord.

Psa_34:3. O magnify the LORD with me-

There is a sweet contagion about the praise of God, we want others to help us to spread it everywhere, so we say, with David, “O magnify the Lord with me,” —

Psa_34:3-4. And let us exalt his name together. I sought the LORD, and he heard me, and delivered me from all my fears.

There is nothing that is so effective as personal testimony to the Lord’s saving power. How often is the skill of a physician commended by the grateful testimony of the patients who have been healed by him! So, shall not the prayer-hearing God be commended by those of us who have had our prayers answered by him? Let us not be slow to say, “I sought the Lord and he heard me, and delivered me from all my fears.”

Psa_34:5. They looked unto him, and were lightened: and their faces were not ashamed.

“They looked unto him,” — a whole army of them, an innumerable company, — “They looked unto him and were lightened: and their faces were not ashamed.” There never was a face that was ashamed of being turned Christward and Godward.

Psa_34:6. This poor man cried, and the LORD heard him, and saved him out of all his troubles.

Here David speaks of himself again, but he refers to himself in the third person: “This poor man cried, and the Lord heard him, and saved him out of all his troubles.”

Psa_34:7. The angel of the LORD encampeth round about them that fear him, and delivereth them.

The great Angel of the covenant, the Lord Jesus Christ, surrounds with his army the dwellings of the saints, and takes care to have them in safe keeping.

Psa_34:8-10. O taste and see that the LORD is good: blessed is the man that trusteth in him. O fear the LORD, ye his saints; For there is no want to them that fear him. The young lions do lack, and suffer hunger: but they that seek the LORD shall not want any good thing.

We are often in want because we are not seeking the Lord, but are seeking what we think we want, whereas, if we sought him, and left the supply of our wants to him, he would supply all our need according to his riches in glory by Christ Jesus. Christ’s command is, “Seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness, and all these things shall be added unto you.” Men think that they will not get what they want except they seek it, but if they seek God, he will give them what they really need even if he does not give them all that they want.

Psa_34:11. Come, ye children, hearken unto me: —

This man of God has made his confession to the saints, and now he tells it out to the children. There is nothing like working on material that will last, and those who are now children will most of them be alive when those who are now old men are dead and gone. So David says, “Come ye children, hearken unto me:” —

Psa_34:11-13. I will teach you the fear of the LORD. What man is he that desireth life, and loveth many days, that he may see good? Keep thy tongue from evil, and thy lips from speaking guile.

There is life or death in the human tongue; there is life in the tongue that is under subjection to the will of God, there is death, there is mischief of all sorts, in a wild ungoverned tongue.

Psa_34:14. Depart from evil, and do good;

Get away from evil as far as you can; that is the negative side. Do good, that is the positive side of piety. He who obeys these two commands shall find happiness and blessing.

Psa_34:14. Seek peace, and pursue it.

Do not be of an angry, irritable, quarrelsome frame of mind. If you do not at once find peace, seek it; and if it runs away from you, pursue it until you overtake it. Remember that it is the meek who shall inherit the earth, and that it is the peaceful spirit that is the happiest spirit.

Psa_34:15. The eyes of the LORD are upon the righteous, and his ears are open unto their cry.

He gives them his eyes and his ears, and this means that he gives them himself, and that he is ever ready to perceive their needs, and to hear their cries.

Psa_34:16. The face of the LORD is against them that do evil,

He sets his face against them, and this means that he is himself eternally opposed to all their wicked ways.

Psa_34:16-17. To cut off the remembrance of them from the earth. The righteous cry, and the LORD heareth, and delivereth them out of all their troubles.

Not only out of some of them, but out of all of them. It is often a very long “all.” The list of their troubles is often difficult to read through but in due time there comes a “finis” to it written by the hand of divine mercy: “The Lord delivereth them out of all their troubles.”

Psa_34:18. The LORD is nigh unto them that are of a broken heart; and saveth such as be of a contrite spirit.

Not your proud spirits, not your hectoring ones; but your lowly, penitent souls are the ones that are dear unto the heart of God, he is nigh unto them, and saveth them.

Psa_34:19-20. Many are the afflictions of the righteous: but the LORD delivereth him out of them all. He keepeth all his bones: not one of them is broken.

He will have many a flesh wound, but there shall be no permanent injury to him; and even though his body were diseased, his soul would be saved.

Psa_34:21-22. Evil shall slay the wicked: and they that hate the righteous shall be desolate. The LORD redeemeth the soul of his servants:

Great as the price is, he pays it; they are so precious to him that he minds not what price he pays so that he may redeem the souls of his servants.

Psa_34:22. And none of them that trust in him shall be desolate.

Blessed be his holy name!



A psalm of David when he changed his behavior before Abimelech, who drove him away, and he departed.” It was a very painful exhibition, and one in which David does not shine but in which, nevertheless, the providence and grace of God are very conspicuous, and it is very pleasant to find a man of God penning such words as these after his escape.

Psa_34:1. I will bless the LORD at all times: his praise shall continually be in my mouth.

After any very great deliverance we feel prompted to special gratitude, and it appears to us as if we never should leave off praising God. I wish that perpetuity were real, but, alas! it often happens that the next cloud that sweeps the skies brings back our doubting, and our fearing, and our song is over. It ought not so to be. Our heart’s resolve should be, “I will bless the Lord at all times. His praise shall continually be in my mouth.”

Psa_34:2. My soul shall make her boast in the LORD:

What is there else to boast about? But what a proper subject for boasting the Lord is, because it is legitimate boasting? We can never exaggerate —we can never speak too well or think too well — of God. He is high above our thoughts, when they are at the best, so that we may make them as big as we may, and we shall never be guilty of extravagance here.

Psa_34:2. The humble shall hear thereof, and be glad.

Humble souls cannot, generally, endure boasting, but boasting in God is very sweet to them. He that will make God great will always be a choice favorite with a broken spirit. Those that are little in themselves delight to hear of the glory of God.

Psa_34:3. O magnify the LORD with me, and let us exalt his name together.

It is too grand a theme for one. One little heart can scarcely feel it all One feeble tongue cannot tell it out. Come, then, ye saints that know his name, magnify the Lord with me.

Psa_34:4. I sought the LORD, and he heard me, and delivered me from all my fears.

Blessed be his name for this. Are there not many of you, dear friends, who can bear the same testimony — personal proof of a prayer-hearing God? You tried him, for you sought him. You tried him, and you found him true, for he delivered you from all your fears.

Psa_34:5. They looked unto him, and were lightened: and their faces were not ashamed.

Only a look, and their burden was gone. Only a look! What great things hang on little things! Faith is but a look, yet it brings life, pardon, salvation. Heaven comes that way. Only a look!

Psa_34:6-7. This poor man cried, and the LORD heard him, and saved him out of all his troubles. The angel of the LORD encampeth round about them that fear him, and delivereth them.

The angel of the Lord does not merely come to help his people, but he stays with them. He encampeth. He has pitched his tent, for he means to tarry. The guardians of God forsake not their charge. They encamp about them that fear him, for their deliverance.

Psa_34:8. O taste and see that the LORD is good: blessed is the man that trusteth in him.

It is the grandest of benedictions. It is the sum and substance of the gospel. “Blessed is the man that trusteth in him.” By the way of works we are cursed but by the way of believing we are blest. Are you trusting? Dear heart, are you trusting? Is it a feeble trust? Are you often much tried and distressed? Yet if you are trusting, you are blessed. God pronounces you so; and do not let your faith waver about it, or suffer the Devil to tell you that you are accursed, for you cannot be. You are blessed.

Psa_34:9. O fear the LORD, ye his saints: for there is no want to them that fear him.

Sometimes their wishes are not granted, but there is no real want. They shall have all necessaries, if they do not have all luxuries.

Psa_34:10. The young lions do lack, and suffer hunger:

Strong as they are, and crafty as they are, they howl, because of their hunger, sometimes.

Psa_34:10. But they that seek the LORD

Though they have no craft, and no courage, and no strength, and no foresight.

Psa_34:10. Shall not want any good thing.

Plead that, tried child of God. Plead it: plead it. If you are in want tonight — if you are in any form of need — plead this gracious word.

Psa_34:11. Come, ye children hearken unto me: I will teach you the fear of the LORD.

A Sunday School teacher’s text. Gather the children close to you. Say, “Come near me. I would be familiar with you.” It was a king who spoke these words, and yet he delighted to say, “Come ye children.” Win their attention. “Hearken unto me.” If they do not hear, how shall they understand? “And I will teach you the fear of the Lord.” That is your subject — pure religion — heart religion — spiritual religion. I will teach you the fear of the Lord.”

Psa_34:12. What man is he that desireth life,

What man is he that does not desire life? Love of it is innate in us all.

Psa_34:12-13. And loveth many days, that he may see good? Keep thy tongue from evil and thy lips from speaking guile.

He begins with one of the hardest practical duties of the fear of God for he that bridleth his tongue is able also be bridle the whole body. The tongue is such an unruly member that if that be kept — and only through grace can it be so — then we may be quite certain that all the other organs and faculties will be kept, too.

Psa_34:14. Depart from evil and do good; seek peace, and pursue it.

A great deal packed away into a small compass there. There is the negative “Depart from evil,” and the positive which must go with it, “Do good.” And if you do not do good, you will soon do evil. And then there is that blessed precept “Seek peace.” Hunt after it, if you cannot spy it out, and if it runs away from you, follow it — pursue it — hunt after it till you gain it. A peaceable life is a happy life.

Psa_34:15. The eyes of the LORD are upon the righteous,

He watches them. He loves them too well to let them ever be out of his sight. He views them with complacency. He regards them with affection. The eyes of the Lord are upon the righteous.

Psa_34:15. And his ears are open unto their cry.

Ready to hear their feeblest prayer — the cry of their pain — their distress. His ears are always open.

Psa_34:16. The face of the LORD is against them that do evil,

Sets his face against them.

Psa_34:16-17. To cut off the remembrance of them from the earth. The righteous cry, and the LORD heareth, and delivereth them out of all their troubles.

Here is an explanation of the experience of the believer — first, prayer; then God’s bearing, and then deliverance. Who would not pray who has found prayer to be so effectual with God

Psa_34:18-19. The LORD is nigh unto them that are of a broken heart; and saveth such as be of a contrite spirit. Many are the afflictions of the righteous: but the LORD delivereth him out of them all.

The first line seemed to have something terrible in it: “Many are the afflictions of the righteous”, but there is a blessed “but” that comes in —thrown like the tree into Marah’s bitter stream to sweeten it all.

Psa_34:20-21. He keepeth all his bones: not one of them is broken. Evil shall slay the wicked:

Their own evil shall be their destruction. They need nothing more than to be suffered to go on in sin. Sin is hell. The fire of corruption is the fire of perdition. Evil shall slay the wicked.

Psa_34:21-22. And they that hate the righteous shall be desolate. The LORD redeemeth the soul of his servants: and none of them that trust in him shall be desolate.

How grandly does David preach the gospel! We need not look to Paul to learn salvation by faith. The Psalms are full of it. We have had it just before. “Blessed is the man that trusteth in him”; and now, again, “None of them that trust in him shall be desolate.” They are sinful, but they shall not be desolate. They often feel as if they were utterly unworthy, but they shall not be desolate. They are, sometimes downcast, but they shall not be desolate. They may be hunted by trials, and afflictions, and temptations of the Devil, but they shall not be desolate. They may come to the bed of pain, and to the chamber of death, but they shall not be desolate. They shall stand before the judgment seat of Christ, but they shall not be desolate not one of them, for it is written, “None of them that trust in him shall be desolate.”



Psa_34:1. I will bless the LORD at all times:

“At dark times, and bright times when I am alone, and when I am in company; when I feel like doing it and when I do not feel like doing it: ‘I will bless the Lord at all times.’”

Psa_34:1. His praise shall continually be in my mouth.

“I will not only feel it in my heart, but I will give expression to it with my mouth. Those who do not care for this blessed employment may leave it alone; but as for me, ‘his praise shall continually be in my mouth.’”

Psa_34:2. My soul shall make her boast in the LORD: the humble shall hear thereof, and be glad.

“I will ride the high horse when I begin to talk of the goodness of God: ‘My soul shall make her boast in the Lord;’ and whereas boasters are generally very vexatious to humble-minded people, this kind of boasting shall please them: ‘the humble shall hear thereof, and be glad.’”

Psa_34:3. O magnify the LORD with me, and let us exalt his name together.

Come, my brethren and sisters, I cannot perform this happy service alone; it is too much for me all by myself. This bunch of grapes is too heavy to be carried by one. “O magnify the Lord with me, and let us exalt his name together.”

Psa_34:4. I sought the LORD, and he heard me, and delivered me from all my fears.

Should not the prayer-hearing God be praised? If he hears the cries of his people, should he not also hear the praises of his people? It is not one only to whom God has thus listened, but many can say with the psalmist, “I sought the Lord, and he heard me.”

Psa_34:5-6. They looked unto him, and were lightened: and their faces were not ashamed. This poor man cried, and the LORD heard him, and saved him out of all his troubles.

It is God’s delight to hear the cry of poor men. Sometimes, he passes by the rich and great, and gives heed to the poor and desolate. It is our need that has the loudest cry with God; if our necessities are urgent, our prayer will be powerful.

Psa_34:7. The angel of the LORD encampeth round about them that fear him, and delivereth them.

God’s children are always attended like princes, legions of angels form their body-guard. The angel of the Lord, and companies of holy angels with him, pitch their celestial tents round about them that fear God.

Psa_34:8. O taste and see that the LORD is good: blessed is the man that trusteth in him.

Do try him, dear friends, and prove for yourselves how good and gracious he is: “O taste and see that the Lord is good: blessed is the man that trusteth in him.”

Oh, make but trial of his love;

Experience will decide

How blest are they, and only they,

Who in his truth confide!”

Psa_34:9. O fear the LORD, ye his saints: for there is no want to them that fear him.

He will supply all their wants. You need not fear for anything else when once you fear God.

Psa_34:10. The young lions do lack, and suffer hunger:

They are strong, and fierce, and crafty, and unscrupulous, yet still they suffer hunger: —

Psa_34:10. But they that seek the LORD; shall not want any good thing.

Though they be neither cruel, nor cunning, nor strong, “they that seek the Lord shall not want any good thing.” What a promise for you to plead in prayer, dear friends! If you are in any need, do not hesitate, but by an act of faith take this gracious word, and plead it with the promise-keeping God: “Hast thou not said that, ‘they that seek the Lord shall not want any good thing’? Then, Lord, do as thou hast said.”

Psa_34:11-13. Come, ye children, hearken unto me; I will teach you the fear of the LORD. What man is he that desireth life, and loveth many days, that he may see good? Keep thy tongue from evil, and thy lips from speaking guile.

He who can manage his tongue can manage his whole body; for the tongue is the rudder of the ship, and if that be properly held, the vessel will be rightly steered. If thou wouldst escape the quicksands and the rocks, look well to thy tongue; keep it from evil, that it speak neither blasphemy against God nor slander against thy fellow men; and keep thy lips from guile, that is, from deceit, from double meanings, from saying one thing and meaning another, or making other people think that you mean another, — an art all too well understood in these days. God make us plain-speaking men, who say what we mean, and mean what we say! When, by the grace of God, we are taught to do this, we have learnt a good lesson.

Psa_34:14. Depart from evil, and do good; seek peace, and pursue it.

If it runs away from you, run after it. Never run into or after a quarrel, but always run after peace: “Seek peace, and pursue it.”

Psa_34:15. The eyes of the LORD are upon the righteous, and his ears are open unto their cry.

The Lord is always watching them, and he is always listening that he may hear everything they say, especially when they cry unto him.

Psa_34:16. The face of the LORD is against them that do evil, to cut off the remembrance of them from the earth.

He will not only destroy the wicked, but he will blot out the very memory of them. They may become great and famous in their wickedness, but they shall not be kept in memory, as the righteous are. As Solomon says, “The name of the wicked shall rot.”

Psa_34:17-18. The righteous cry, and the LORD heareth, and delivereth them out of all their troubles. The LORD is nigh unto them that are of a broken heart; and saveth such as be of a contrite spirit.

Men do not care for broken hearts, but God does. “Give me a sound heart and a brave heart,” says man. “Give me a broken and a contrite heart,” says the Lord. If you have such a heart as that, be not afraid to draw near to your God, through Jesus Christ, for he is already nigh unto you.

Psa_34:19. Many are the afflictions of the righteous: but the Lord delivereth him out of them all.

Many who read this verse admit that the first part of it is true: “Many are the afflictions of the righteous.” Yes, but the latter clause is also true: “but the Lord delivereth him out of them all.” Do not omit either portion of the passage, for one part is as true as the other.

Psa_34:20. He keepeth all his bones: not one of them is broken.

God’s people shall suffer no real, lasting, vital injury. You may have flesh wounds, but as to the bones of your spirit, as it were, the solid part of it, “not one of them is broken.”

Psa_34:21. Evil shall slay the wicked: and they that hate the righteous shall be desolate.

They shall want nothing else to make an end of them but their own sins:

“Evil shall slay the wicked.”

Psa_34:22. The LORD redeemeth the soul of his servants: and none of them that trust in him shall be desolate.

Now we are going to read the last chapter of the Book of the prophet Hosea, the first of the minor prophets.

This exposition consisted of readings from Psalms 34; and Hosea 14.