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John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
And call upon me in the day of trouble,.... This is another part of spiritual sacrifice or worship, which is much more acceptable to God than legal sacrifices. Invocation of God includes all parts of religious worship, and particularly designs prayer, as it does here, of which God, and he only, is the object; and which should be performed in...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And call upon me in the day of trouble: I will deliver thee and thou shalt glorify me. But unto the wicked God saith, What hast thou to do to declare my statutes, or that thou shouldest take my covenant in thy mouth? There were, in those days, wicked priests who taught the people what they did not themselves practice, just as there are, in these...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And call upon me in the day of trouble: I will deliver thee, and thou shalt glorify me. Thus you see God has spoken to his professing people — to those who were moral, decent, and observant of outward ritual. He now turns to some others — some others, perhaps, quite as outwardly religious, but their lives were immoral; their conduct was a breach...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
But unto the wicked God saith,.... By whom are meant, not openly profane sinners; but men under a profession of religion, and indeed who were teachers of others, as appears from the following expostulation with them: the Scribes, Pharisees, and doctors among the Jews, are designed; and so Kimchi interprets it of their wise men, who learnt and...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
But unto the wicked God saith, What hast thou to do to declare my statutes, or that thou shouldest take my covenant in thy mouth? Unconverted preachers, unsaved Sabbath-school teachers, what answer can you give to this question of the Most High?
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
But unto the wicked God saith, What hast thou to do to declare my statutes, or that thou shouldest take my covenant in thy mouth? Your unholiness, even though you were of the tribe of Levi, would disqualify you from declaring my statutes. Your mouth full of slander, how should you dare to use it to speak of my covenant with it?
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Seeing thou hatest instruction,.... Or "correction" (z); to be reproved or reformed by the statutes and covenant they declared to others; they taught others, but not themselves, Romans 2:21; or evangelical instruction, the doctrines of grace, and of Christ; for, as concerning the Gospel, they were enemies, Romans 11:28; and since they were haters...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Seeing thou hatest instruction, and castest my words behind thee. When thou sawest a thief, then thou consentedst with him, and hast been partaker with adulterers. Thou givest thy mouth to evil, and thy tongue frameth deceit. Thou sittest and speakest against thy brother; thou slanderest thine own mother’s son. How then canst thou hope to please...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Seeing thou hatest instruction, and castest my words behind thee. When thou sawest a thief, then thou consentedst with him, and has been a partaker with adulterers. Thou givest thy mouth to evil, and thy tongue frameth deceit. Thou sittest and speakest against thy brother; thou slanderest thine own mother’s son. Slander, you see, is put side by...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Seeing thou hatest instruction, and castest my words behind thee. As if they were worthless things to be thrown away — as if they were obnoxious things to be thrown behind thy back where thou couldest not see them. “Dost thou talk about worshipping me, whilst thou art neglecting my words?” Now it is a very solemn thing when a man boasts about the...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
When thou sawest a thief, then thou consentedst with him,.... Or "didst run with him" (a); joined and agreed with him in the commission of the same things; which was literally true of the Scribes and Pharisees: they devoured widows' houses, and robbed them of their substance, under a pretence of long prayers; they consented to the deeds of...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
When thou sawest a thief, then thou consentedst with him, and hast been partaker with adulterers. “When thou sawest a thief thou consentedst with him,” and some professors do this. If they do not themselves rob, there are some who will employ their clerks to tell lies in writing. They consent in the bad trade of others. They become accomplices,...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Thou givest thy mouth to evil,.... To speak evil things against Christ, his doctrines, ordinances, ministers and people; and to deliver out evil doctrines, pernicious to the souls of men; and thy tongue frameth deceit; puts and joins together deceitful words in a very artful manner, by which simple and unstable minds are beguiled.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Thou givest thy mouth to evil, and thy tongue frameth deceit. How many do this, and yet think they are the children of God? They ruin other characters most remorselessly; they will spread false reports, if not actually invent them, and yet think themselves the people of God.
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Thou sittest,.... Either in the chair of Moses, or on the seat of judgment, in the great sanhedrim of the nation; or, as Aben Ezra paraphrases it, "in the seat of the scornful"; [and] speakest against thy brother; even to pass sentence upon him, to put him to death for professing faith in Christ, Matthew 10:21; thou slanderest thine own mother's...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Thou sittest and speakest against thy brother; thou slanderest thine own mother’s son. When a tongue has once learned the habit of calumny, it will spare none. The nearest relative and the dearest will become victims to the habit —first of gossip and afterwards of actual detraction and lying. Oh! the misery, the pain, that is caused in the world...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
These things hast thou done,.... "These evil works", as the Targum; which they had done over and over again without remorse, with the greatest pleasure, and with promises of impunity to themselves. This is a confirmation of the charge made by the omniscient God, who saw and knew all their actions; and I kept silence; spoke not by terrible things...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
These things hast thou done, and I kept silence; thou thoughtest that I was altogether such an one as thyself: but I will reprove thee, and set them in order before thine eyes. Now consider this, -- “Consider this,” you who are full of heartless religiousness, you who are so particular in your observance of the outward forms of religion, and yet...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
These things hast thou done, and I kept silence; A wonderful thing is that silence of God, that longsuffering with sinners and another wonderful thing is the impudent interpretation which the sinner gives to that silence. Psa_50:21. Thou thoughtest that I was altogether such an one as thyself: but I will reprove thee, and set them in order before...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
These things hast thou done, and I kept silence; God, in his long-suffering, bears with these sinners. “Thou thoughtest that I was altogether such an one as thyself.” These men came at last to say, “Pooh! the prophets make too much fuss about holiness. You can serve God, and yet, after all, live as we do. So long as we give God a tithe, it matters...