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Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
He shall judge the poor of the people shall save the children of the needy, and shall break in pieces the oppressor. They shall fear thee as long as the sun and moon endure throughout all generations. He shall come down like rain upon the mown grass: as showers that water the earth. After being mown the grass is tender; should there be a long...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
They shall fear thee,.... The King Messiah, the Judge of the poor, and the destroyer of the oppressor: either the tyrants and oppressors themselves shall fear him, and such who have been aiding and assisting to them; see Revelation 11:11; or rather the people of God, the poor of the people, and children of the needy, judged and saved by Christ;...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
They shall fear thee as long as the sun and moon endure, throughout all generations. For the kingdom of Christ renews itself. It is never broken in pieces by the power of the enemy, but every piece becomes a new root, and it springs up again. There are some plants of which they may that the more you tread upon them the more they will spread, and...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
They shall fear thee as long as the sun and moon endure, throughout all generations. All other kings and princes and rulers pass away; our King alone has an everlasting kingdom. Where are the dynasties that have ruled over vast empires? They have passed almost out of remembrance, but the promise to our King still abides: “They shall fear thee as...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
He shall come down like rain upon the mown grass,.... That is, the King and King's Son, the Messiah, whose coming is compared to rain, and showers of it; see Hosea 6:3; and may be understood of his incarnation; when, like rain, he came down from heaven; not by an illapse or entrance of the human nature, which before was not in him; nor by local...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
He shall come down like rain upon the mown grass: as showers that water the earth. Christ shall not come like fire to burn up and to destroy, but his kingdom is one of mercy and grace. When the grass has just been wounded with the scythe, he shall come down to bring it refreshment, that it may spring up again. In plenteous showers of grace shall...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
He shall come down like rain upon the mown grass: as showers that water the earth. The reign of Christ even now is to the poor dispirited sons of men like rain upon the mown grass, and when he shall come in his glory as he will shortly come, his coming shall be as blessed to this world as the gentle showers are to the grass that is newly mown.
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
In his days shall the righteous flourish,.... As the grass of the field, Psalms 72:16; the dews and rain of grace descending upon them; and as a branch, Proverbs 11:28. They being branches in Christ the vine, flourish and bring forth fruit; and as the palm tree, Psalms 92:12; which the more it is pressed with weights, the more it grows; so they,...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
In his days shall the righteous flourish: and abundance of peace so long as the moon endureth. There have been empires which have been propitious to the flourishing of great wrongs. Some of the worst and vilest of men have flourished under certain empires, which have but lately passed away; but in the empire of Christ the righteous alone shall...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
In his days shall the righteous flourish; and abundance of peace so long as the moon endureth. He shall have dominion also from sea to sea, and from the river unto the ends of the earth. This is God’s decree. As surely as he has set his King upon his holy hill of Zion, so surely will he make him to “have dominion from sea to sea, and from the...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
In his days shall the righteous flourish; and abundance of peace so long as the moon endureth. Under other kings sinners have flourished, and great oppressors have walked in public, but in Christ’s days the righteous shall flourish; “and abundance of peace so long as the moon endureth.” There have been some times of truce, there have been some...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
He shall have dominion also from sea to sea,.... The same is said of the Messiah in Zechariah 9:10; where he is manifestly spoken of as here, and regards the extent of his dominion; not over the land of Israel only, as some think; but over the Gentile world, through the preaching of the Gospel in the several parts of it; and especially as it will...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
He shall have dominion also from sea to sea, and from the river unto the ends of the earth. Universal monarchy is to be the monarchy of Christ. This is the fifth great monarchy, and there shall never be another. No king or potentate that shall ever rise can possibly have universal dominion again. We need not fear that, for the fifth empire is that...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
He shall have dominion also from sea to sea, and from the river unto the ends of the earth. They that dwell in the wilderness shall bow before him; and his enemies shall lick the dust. The Arabs, the wandering Bedouin tribes, unconquered and untamable, “shall bow before him;” and his enemies shall not merely be beaten once or twice, but they...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
They that dwell in the wilderness shall bow before him,.... In token of subjection to him, reverence and worship of him, to whom every knee shall bow, Isaiah 45:23. The Septuagint version, and others, render the word ציים, "Ethiopians", who dwell in a dry land, parched and burnt with the sun; and so it is a prophecy of their conversion to Christ,...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
They that dwell in the wilderness shall bow before him; and his enemies shall lick the dust. The most distant tribes — those that wander and have no settled dwelling-place — shall, nevertheless, bow before him. The Arab boasts that he never knew a master — that even Caesar could not penetrate into his deserts and subdue him; but Christ shall be...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
They that dwell in the wilderness shall bow before him; and his enemies shall lick the dust. The kings of Tarshish and of the isles shall bring presents: Commerce with all its wealth shall yet lend its homage to the Saviour; and every ship that crosses the sea shall yet bear its cargo of praise unto his glorious name.
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
The kings of Tarshish and of the isles shall bring presents,.... Tarshish either signifies the sea, as it is sometimes rendered in the Targum; and then the sense is, the kings of the sea, that is, of the islands of the sea, as it follows, shall be subject to the kingdom of Christ; and, as a token of it, bring presents to him, as the Moabites and...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
The kings of Tarshish and of the isles shall bring presents: the kings of Sheba and Seba shall offer gifts. We need not be afraid if this Psalm refers to Christ, and we do not doubt that it does. He must reign. The end of the world is not coming until there shall be a conquest for him. He may come before that time, but certainly there shall be no...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
The kings of Sheba and Seba shall offer gifts. Their barbaric splendor shall find a higher glory in being consecrated to the King of kings.