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Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
They that go down to the sea in ships, that do business in great waters; these see the works of the LORD, and his wonders in the deep. These words apply not only to seamen literally, but also to others who are called to endure great storms while sailing across the sea of this mortal life,
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
They that go down to the sea in ships, that do business in great waters ; these see the works of the LORD, and his wonders in the deep. The Jews were never given to navigation. To “go down to the sea in ships,” seemed a very extraordinary thing to them; they looked upon it as a going down, as it were, into a dreadful abyss. We, who are more...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
These see the works of the Lord,.... In creation, the sea itself, its flux and reflux; the creatures in it, fishes of various forms and sizes: and in providence, in preserving ships and men in the most imminent danger, and even to a miracle; sometimes causing the wind to change or to subside in a moment, whereby deliverance is wrought. And his...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
For he commandeth, and raiseth the stormy wind,.... Winds are not raised by men, nor by devils, nor by angels, but by the Lord himself; who has created them, holds them in his fist, brings them out of his treasures, and sends them forth to do his will; if he speaks the word, gives but the order, a storm arises at once, and executes what he...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For he commandeth, and raiseth the stormy wind, which lifteth up the waves thereof. They mount up to the heaven, they go down again to the depths: their soul is melted because of trouble. For even he who has his “ sea legs “ on finds them of little use to him when such a storm as this is tossing everything in a dreadful hurly burly. “They mount up...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
—For he commandeth, and raiseth the stormy wind, which lifteth up the waves thereof. They mount up to the heaven, they go down again to the depths: their soul is melted because of trouble. They reel to and fro, and stagger like a drunken man, and are at their wit’s end. Here we learn something of what sailors see, and of what tried Christians...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
They mount up to the heaven,.... The waves which are lifted up by the stormy wind, and the ships which are upon them, and the men in them. They go down again to the depths: one while they seem to reach the skies, and presently they are down, as it were, in the bottom of the sea, and are threatened to be buried in the midst of it; distress at sea...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
They reel to and fro, and stagger like a drunken man,.... Through the agitation of the water, and motion of the ship, not being able to stand upon deck. And are at their wit's end; or, "all their wisdom is swallowed up" (n); their wisdom in naval affairs, their art of navigation, their skill in managing ships, all nonplussed and baffled; they know...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
They reel to and fro, and stagger like a drunken man, and are at their wit’s end. But, oh! when souls are caught in a storm of conviction of sin, this is a true description of their spiritual distress,-they are at their wits end, and do not know what to do. Everything about them is shaking, and they themselves are reeling to and fro, sometimes...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Then they cry unto the Lord in their trouble,.... As in a storm seafaring persons are used to do; so did Jonah's mariners, though Heathens, everyone cried to his god. With the Romans (o) tempests were reckoned deities, and had temples erected, and sacrifices offered to them; but these persons were such as knew and owned the true Jehovah, and...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Unto the LORD in their trouble, and he bringeth them out of their distresses. He maketh the storm a calm, so that the waves thereof are still. Then are they glad because they be quiet; so he bringeth them unto their desired haven. Oh that men would praise the LORD for his goodness, and for his wonderful works to the children of men! Let them exalt...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Then they cry- Yes, then, when they are reeling and staggering; that is a queer condition-is it not?-in which to be praying, reeling to and fro, and staggering like a drunken man: “Then they cry.”- Psa_107:28. Unto the LORD in their trouble, and he bringeth them out of their distresses. Then God will hear the prayer of a staggering man, and the...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Then they cry unto the Lord in their trouble, and he bringeth them out of their distresses. This shows that, although they were at their wit’s end, they had wit enough or wisdom enough to pray. Their souls were melted, so they let them run out in prayer. It is a good thing to get the soul melted, for then it will flow out like water before the...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
He maketh the storm a calm,.... As Christ did by a word speaking, Mr 4:39. So that the waves thereof are still; and roar and toss no more, but subside; and the sea becomes smooth and quiet, its raging ceases: the angry sea, as Horace (p) calls it, becomes calm and peaceable; see Psalms 89:9. (p) "Nec horret iratum mare", Horat. Epod. Ode 2. v. 6....
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
He maketh the storm a calm,- What a change! And what a blessing it is to get into one of God’s calms, for they are far beyond the ordinary calm of nature; then do we enjoy “ the peace of God, which passeth all understanding.”
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
So that the wave thereof are still. Then are they glad because they be quiet; so he bringeth them unto their desired haven. Oh that men would praise the LORD for his goodness, and for his wonderful works to the children of men! Let them exalt him also in the congregation of the people, and praise him in the assembly of the elders.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
He maketh the storm a calm, so that the waves thereof are still. At the first, God made everything out of nothing, so he can easily make a calm out of a storm; and he can make the storm a calm for you whenever he pleases to do so. Your troubled feelings, your tossings to and fro, may soon subside into “the peace of God, which passeth all...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Then are they glad because they be quiet,.... The mariners are glad that the waves are quiet, and they free from danger, and at ease and in repose themselves. So he bringeth them unto their desired haven; the port, city, border or tract of land (q), they are bound to; which they desire to be at, and eagerly look out for, and rejoice when arrived...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Then are they glad because they be quiet; so he bringeth them unto their desired haven. And there is no music that is sweeter to the mariner’s ears than the rattle of the chain as the anchor grips the bottom of the harbor, and the ship rests from all her tossings. The Lord will give you grace, my brother, my sister, to let down your anchor;—or,...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Oh that men would praise the Lord for his goodness,.... Seafaring men particularly, before mentioned, as Jonah's mariners did, Jonah 1:16, or all the four sorts of persons instanced in, as Kimchi thinks: and even all men whatsoever should do this, high and low, rich and poor, of every age, sex, and condition; since they all receive favours from...