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John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Hear, O my people,.... This is an address to the people of the Jews, whom God had chosen to be his people above all others, and who professed themselves to be his people; but now a "loammi", Hosea 1:9, was about to be written upon them, being a people uncircumcised in heart and ears, refusing to hear the great Prophet of the church, him that spake...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Hear, O my people, and I will speak: O Israel, and I will testify against thee: I am God, even thy God. It is with his national people, the Jews; it is with his visible Church, God is now dealing. He himself has seen the ways of his professing people: he need not, therefore, call any witnesses. He who cannot err will testify against us; and he...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Hear, O my people, and I will speak; O Israel, and I will testify against thee: I am God, even thy God. I will not reprove thee for thy sacrifices or thy burnt offerings, to have been continually before me. I will take no bullock out of thy house, nor he goats out of thy folds. Observe what contempt God expresses, in this Psalm, for all mere...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Hear, O my people, and I will speak; O Israel, and I will testify against thee: I am God, even thy God. Note then that, with all the faults which Christ can find in his people, he is still their God. All the sins of the saints cannot separate them from Christ. They may blot the indenture, but it is only a copy of the covenant made by Christ on...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
I will not reprove thee for thy sacrifices,.... For the neglect of them; this they were not chargeable with; and had they omitted them, a charge would not have been brought against them on that account, since these were not what God commanded when he brought them out of Egypt, Jeremiah 7:22; and were now abrogated; and when they were in force,...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I will not reprove thee for thy sacrifices or thy burnt offerings, to have been continually before me. He is going to deal with weightier matters than that. Whether they have, or have not, offered abundant sacrifices, that is not the thing which God looks at. “I will not reprove thee for thy sacrifices. Nay, I have done with thy sacrifices.”
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I will not reprove thee for thy sacrifices or thy burnt offerings, to have been continually before me. I will take no bullock out of thy house, nor he goats out of thy folds. For every beast of the forest is mine, and the cattle upon a thousand hills. I know all the fowls of the mountains; and the wild beasts of the field are mine. If I were...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
I will take no bullock out of thy house,.... That is, will accept of none; such sacrifices being no more agreeable to the will of God, Hebrews 10:5; the "bullock" is mentioned, that being a principal creature used in sacrifice; as also the following, [nor] he goats out of thy folds; the reasons follow.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I will take no bullock out of thy house, nor he goats out of thy folds. “Do you think that these things in themselves are of any value to me. O ye formalists? I will not even take them.”
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
For every beast of the forest [is] mine,.... By creation and preservation; and therefore he stood in no need of their bullocks and he goats; [and the cattle upon a thousand hills; meaning all the cattle in the whole world.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For every beast of the forest is mine, and the cattle upon a thousand hills. Though men call them theirs, yet they are thy God’s.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For every beast of the forest is mine, and the cattle upon a thousand hills. I know all the fowls of the mountains: and the wild beasts of the field are mine. If any man thinks that he can make God his debtor by any offering that he brings to him, what a great mistake he makes! Whatever you bring to God, you will only bring to him what is already...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
I know all the fowls of the mountains,.... God not only knows them, but takes care of them; not a sparrow fails to the ground without his knowledge, and all the fowls of the air are fed by him, Matthew 10:29; and therefore needed not their turtledoves and young pigeons, which were the only fowls used in sacrifice; and the wild beasts of the field...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
If I were hungry, I would not tell thee,.... Or "say to thee" (w); ask for anything for the world [is] mine, and the fulness thereof; with which, was the former his case, he could satisfy himself; see Psalms 24:1. (w) לא אמר לך "non dicam tibi", V. L. Pagninus, Montanus, Musculus; "non dicerem tibi", Junius & Tremellius, Piscator, Cocceius,...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
If I were hungry, I would not tell thee: for the world is mine, and the fullness thereof. Will I eat the flesh of bulls, or drink the blood of goats? “Think you that there is any offering that man can present to me which can appease my wrath, or give me pleasure?”
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Will I eat the flesh of bulls, or drink the blood of goats?] That is, express a pleasure, take delight and satisfaction, in such kind of sacrifices, which can never take away sin: no, I will not; wherefore other sacrifices, more agreeable to his nature, mind, and will, and to the Gospel dispensation, are next mentioned.
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Offer unto God thanksgiving,.... Which is a sacrifice, Psalms 50:23; and the Jews say (x), that all sacrifices will cease in future time, the times of the Messiah, but the sacrifice of praise; and this should be offered up for all mercies, temporal and spiritual; and unto God, because they all come from him; and because such sacrifices are well...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Offer unto God thanksgiving; and pay thy vows unto the most High: The offering of the heart is better than the gift from the purse. The praise and thanksgiving that come out of the very soul, these God will accept.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Offer unto God thanksgiving; and pay thy vows unto the most High; and call upon me in the day of trouble: I will deliver thee, and thou shalt glorify me. See the three ways of praising God. One is by giving him your grateful thanksgiving. Banish your murmurings; sweep away your mistrusts; and let your mouth be filled with his praise all the day...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Offer unto God thanksgiving: This is what he wants — heart-work. Psa_50:14. And pay thy vows unto the most High: This is what he demands — obedience.