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Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
The LORD taketh pleasure in them that fear him, That is his joy. As a man is proud of his horse, or of the muscles which enable him to run swiftly, so God takes delight in those that fear him, — Psa_147:11. In those that hope in his mercy. These are his jewels; these are his glory.
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Praise the Lord, O Jerusalem,.... The inhabitants of it, as Kimchi; not Jerusalem in a literal sense, for this respects future time, as Aben Ezra; the world to come, the times of the Messiah: and intends the spiritual Jerusalem, as Arama; that which is free, the mother of us all; the Gospel church, and the members of it; which have great reason to...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Praise the LORD, O Jerusalem; praise thy God, O Zion. Let whole cities join together to praise God. Shall we live to see the day when all London shall praise him? Shall we, ever, as we go down these streets, with their multitudes of inhabitants, see the people standing in the doorways, and asking, “What must we do to be saved?” Shall we ever see...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Praise the LORD, O Jerusalem; praise thy God, O Zion. For he hath strengthened the bars of thy gates; he hath blessed thy children within thee. Happy Zion, which God secures so well that even bars and posts are finished; not merely walls and gates, but the bars of the gates. There is nothing wanting in the covenant of grace. If the gates need...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Praise the LORD, O Jerusalem; praise thy God, O Zion. For he hath strengthened the bars of thy gates; he hath blessed thy children within thee. He maketh peace in thy borders, What a blessing this is, not only in a nation, but in a church! If you were ever members of a church where they seemed to quarrel punctually once every month, you would soon...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Praise the LORD, O Jerusalem; praise thy God, O Zion. For he hath strengthened the bars of thy gates; he hath blessed thy children within thee. There shall be special hallelujahs from God’s own people. His holy city and his holy hill should magnify the thrice-holy God. O beloved, if we are indeed children of that Jerusalem which is from above,...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Praise the LORD, O Jerusalem; praise thy God, O Zion. For he hath strengthened the bars of thy gates; he hath blessed thy children within thee. He maketh peace in thy borders, and filleth thee with the finest of the wheat. He sendeth forth his commandment upon earth: his word runneth very swiftly. Our King’s warrant runs everywhere, all over the...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
For he hath strengthened the bars of thy gates,.... Of Jerusalem, of Zion the church of God. Gates are for the letting in of persons into the city of our God; which are Christ, faith in him, and a profession of it; see Isaiah 26:1, "bars" are for the security of those that, are in it, and to keep out the enemy: and these, "strengthened", denote...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For he hath strengthened the bars of thy gates; he hath blessed thy children within thee. As a nation, we have been greatly prospered, defended, and supplied; and the church of God has been made to stand fast against her enemies, and her children have been blessed.
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
He maketh peace [in] thy borders,.... Which are usually most infested by enemies, It may denote the universality of peace throughout the land, in all the parts and borders of it; and be understood of the outward peace of the church with her enemies, and of the abundance and continuance of it in the latter day; and of that concord and harmony that...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
He maketh peace in thy borders, and filleth thee with the finest of the wheat. He sendeth forth his commandment upon earth: his word runneth very swiftly. Oriental monarchs were very earnest to have good post arrangements. They sent their decrees upon swift dromedaries. They can never be compared with the swiftness of the purpose of God’s decree....
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
He maketh peace in thy borders, and filleth thee with the finest of the wheat. An old commentator says, “Generally, if you get quantity, you do not get quality; but when you deal with God, ‘he filleth thee,’ there is quantity, ‘with the finest of the wheat,’ there is quality.” You get both in God, an abundance of the best.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And filleth thee with the finest of the wheat. There is generally peace where there is plenty. Dogs fight when there are few bones, and when God’s people are well fed, they do not so often quarrel with one another. If they are fed with the finest of the wheat, there will be peace in their borders.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
He maketh peace in thy borders, and filleth thee with the finest of the wheat. When the Church is peaceful, and when the gospel fills the saints, and they feed upon it, and feel it to be the very finest of the wheat, should not God be praised? Does not the hallelujah come in here again? Praise ye the Lord for spiritual meat, and spiritual peace,...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
He sendeth forth his commandment upon earth,.... Which Kimchi interprets of rain, which causes the wheat to grow; since afterwards mention is made of snow, and of hoar frost and ice. Aben Ezra understands it of the decree of God, which he executes on earth. The Targum, of the "Memra", or Word of the Lord; the essential Word, the Messiah; whom the...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
He sendeth forth his commandment upon earth: his word runneth very swiftly. Great kings have tried to make their postal arrangements act with rapidity; in the olden time, they employed swift dromedaries for this purpose, but “his word runneth very swiftly.” When God has a message to send, he can flash it by lightning, or dispatch it in an instant...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
He sendeth forth his commandment upon earth: his word runneth very swiftly. He giveth snow like wool: Light and fleecy, it covers the plants, and protects them from the cold; the snow is a kind of garment to them from the frost.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
He sendeth forth his commandment upon earth: his word runneth very swiftly. Oriental kings made a point of having swift postal arrangements by which they could send their decrees to the extremity of their dominions, sometimes on horses, and sometimes on swift dromedaries; but God’s command, God’s decree, God’s “word runneth very swiftly.” He...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
He giveth snow like wool,.... For colour as white as wool; so the Targum and Kimchi: and for the manner of its falling, lightly and gently as a lock of wool; which for its thinness and fineness it also resembles. Hence the ancients used to call snow εριωδεςυδωρ, "woolly water" (t); and Martial (u) gives it the name of "densum veilus aquarum", "a...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
He giveth snow like wool: Men say, “it” snows; but what “it” is it that snows? The Psalmist rightly says of the Lord, “HE giveth snow.” They say that according to the condition of the atmosphere, snow is produced; but the believer says, “He giveth snow like wool.” It is not only like wool for whiteness; but it is like it for the warmth which it...