Psalm 5 (3 of 15 notes)

The Treasury of David
by Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1834-1892)

3. My voice shalt thou hear. This is not so much a prayer as a resolution: “My voice shalt thou hear; I will not be dumb, I will cry to thee, for the fire that dwells within compels me to pray.” We can sooner die than live without prayer. In the morning. This is the fittest time for conversation with God. An hour in the morning is worth two in the evening. Prayer should be the key of the day and the lock of the night. I direct my prayer unto thee. In the figure of an archer, I will put my prayer upon the bow, I will direct it towards heaven, and then when I have shot my arrow I will look up to see where it has gone. But the Hebrew has a still fuller meaning than this. The word for direct is used for laying in order the wood and the pieces of the victim on the altar, and it is used also for putting the shewbread on the table. “I will arrange my prayer before thee, I will lay it out on the altar just as the priest lays out the morning sacrifice”; I will call up all my powers and bid them stand in their proper places, that I may pray with all my might, and pray acceptably. And willlook up. The Hebrew might better be translated, “ ‘I will look out’ for the answer; after I have prayed, I will expect that the blessing will come.” It is a word that is used in another place of those who watched for the morning.

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