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Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Yet they say, The LORD shall not see, neither shall the God of Jacob regard it. Yet this very God of Jacob came to the troubled patriarch at Jabbok, and blessed him there, and he said to heathen kings, “Touch not mine anointed, and do my prophets no harm,” so can it be true that he does not see and regard what the wicked I do to his people? They...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Understand, ye brutish among the people,.... Or the most brutish and stupid of all people; especially that profess themselves to be the people of God, or Christians, as the Papists do; and who seem to be the persons here addressed: "brutish"; to murder the servants of the Lord, and drink their blood, till inebriated with it; stupid to the last...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Understand, ye brutish among the people: When a man turns away from God, he casts off his manhood; he ceases to be a man, and becomes like a brute, a boar, for so this expression might be read, “Ye boars among the people.”
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And ye fools, when will ye be wise? He that planted the ear, shall he not hear? Did the Lord make men’s ears, and put them near the brain in the very best place for hearing, and shall he not himself hear? The argument is overwhelming. God gave us ears, and made us hear; is he deaf himself?
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Understand, ye brutish among the people: Here the pleader turn into a prophet, and, after having spoken to God, he now speaks to men. Understand, ye boors,” for so the word may be rendered, “ye swine among the people:”
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
He that planted the ear,.... In the human body, with so much art and skill, in so convenient a place, so capacious of receiving sounds, and fitted it with organs suited for such a purpose: shall he not hear? the atheism spoke in the heart, in the actions and by the mouths of such blasphemers of him; the hard speeches spoken against his Son, his...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
He that formed the eye, shall he not see? God makes all eyes; is he without eyes himself? The supposition is an absurdity. It needs only to be mentioned to be held up to ridiculous: “He that planted the ear, shall he not hear? He that formed the eye, shall he not see?” “Shall he who, with transcendent skill, Fashion’d the eye and form’d the ear...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And ye fools, when will ye be wise? He that planted the ear, shall he not hear? he that formed the eye, shalt he not see? You say that God does not see, that he does not regard; but how can that be? You are mad to talk so. He that gave men the sense of hearing, cannot he himself hear? He that gave them sight, cannot he see “Shall he who, with...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
He that chastiseth the Heathen,.... As he did the old world, by bringing a flood upon it, and sweeping away its inhabitants at once; and Sodom and Gomorrah, by raining fire and brimstone upon them, and consuming them from off the earth; and the old inhabitants of Canaan, by ejecting them out of their land for their abominations, with other similar...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
He that chastiseth the heathen, shall not he correct? Whole nations were driven out of Canaan to make room for Israel. Many other nations have been crushed, doubled up, utterly destroyed, on account of their sin. Everybody who reads history knows that this has been the case, so the psalmist argues, “He that chastiseth the heathen, shall not he...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
He that chastiseth the heathen, shall not he correct? He judges are nations, read the Book of Providence, and see how he deals out justice to nation after nation, so shall he not also correct the individual man : Psa_94:10. He that teacheth man knowledge, If you look at your Bibles, you will see that the translators have put in here the words...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Shall not he know? The LORD knoweth the thought of man, that they are vanity. He knows that men are vanity, that they are, according to one translation, a vapor. The men themselves are but a vapor; but as for their thoughts, their intellect, their power to think, that of which many men are most proud, what does God think of this? What a wonderful...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
The Lord knoweth the thoughts of man,.... He not only hears their words, and sees their actions; but he knows their thoughts, the secret thoughts of their hearts, though he is afar off from them, and, they from him; he is the searcher of the hearts and trier of the reins of the children of men; see Psalms 139:2, and so is Christ, who is the...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
The LORD knoweth the thoughts of man, God knows not only men’s words and acts, but their thoughts also. God knows thoughtful men, the best sort of men, when they are at their best, when they are thinking; and what does God think of the thoughts of man? Psa_94:11. That they are vanity. Yet people talk about the thoughtful men of the age, and want...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Blessed is the man whom thou chastenest, O Lord,.... Much more happy now, and hereafter, than the proud insulting persecutor of him; he is chastened of the Lord, that he might not be condemned with the world; he is chastened not in wrath, but in love; not with the chastisement of a cruel one, nor indeed of a magistrate nor a master; but of a...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Blessed is the man whom thou chastenest, O LORD, and teachest him out of thy law; Here is the truly blessed man; not the boaster, not the infidel, not the proud thinker, but the divinely-chastened man. He is sore through the chastening of the Lord, his bones are full of pain, his heart is heavy, and his home, perhaps, as a place of torture to him;...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Blessed is the man whom thou chastenest, O LORD, and teach him out of thy law; These are two things that go well together, — a rod and a book; no man ever learns much without both rod and book. “Blessed is the man whom thou chastenest.” The book is never properly understood without some touches of the rod, but the book must be there also: “and...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
That thou mayest give him rest from the days of adversity,.... Or "evil" (c); or "in the evil days", as the Arabic version; for through teaching men under afflictions, they become tranquil and quiet in them; they yield the peaceable fruits of righteousness to them; such men patiently bear them; and quietly submit to the will of God in them, and...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
That thou mayest give him rest; from the days of adversity, until the pit be digged for the wicked. Christ has gone to prepare heaven for his people; it is a prepared place for a prepared people. So is it with the ungodly and their eternal inheritance, it is a prepared place, “prepared for the devil and his angels,” and when men make themselves...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
That thou mayest give him a rest from the days of adversity, until the pit be digged for the wicked. In these days, the quiet virtues are not prized as much as they ought to be. Men are always busy, they must be ever on the trot; but blessed is the man who is so taught by the book and by the rod that he comes to a holy quietism, and learns to...