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Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
To shew that the LORD is upright: he is my rock, Can each one of you say that concerning the Lord, “ He is my rock, my foundation, my refuge, my shelter “? Psa_92:15. And there is no unrightousness in him. Say that when you have lost the dearest one you ever knew. Say that when your property has melted like the hoar frost in the morning. Say that...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
O LORD God, to whom vengeance belongeth; O God, to whom vengeance belongeth, shew thyself. God is the God of justice, and when iniquity and oppression prevail, it is natural that his people should call upon him to come forth out of his hiding-places. Sometimes, when oppression and iniquity and error prevail, it seems as if God had hidden himself...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
LORD God, — “ O Jehovah, El.” Men of God in trouble delight to call upon the name of the Lord. His very name is a stronghold to them; the infinite Jehovah, the strong God, EL: “O Lord God,”- Psa_94:1. To whom vengeance belongeth; O God, to whom vengeance belongeth, shew thyself. Vengeance does not belong to us; it is not right for any private...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Lift up thyself, thou judge of the earth: render a reward to the proud. As one who is about to strike a heavy blow lifts himself up, to increase the force of the stroke, so the psalmist prays to the Lord, “Lift up thyself, thou Judge of the earth. The proud are lifted up; lift up thyself. They boast, they glory, Lord, show them how great a God...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Lift up thyself, thou judge of the earth: render a reward to the proud. LORD, how long shall the wicked, how long shall the wicked triumph? How long shall they utter and Speak hard things? and all the workers of iniquity boast themselves? That expression, “ How long?” repeated three times, is very sorrowful; it seems to get into a kind of howling...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
LORD, how long shall the wicked, how long shall the wicked triumph? That question, “how long?” uttered twice over, sounds a little like howling; and sometimes God’s saints get so dispirited that they cry unto God, and weep and wail before him until their wailing becomes almost like howling: “Lord, how long shall the wicked, how long shall the...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
How long shall they utter and speak hard things? and all the workers of iniquity boast themselves? They break in pieces thy people, O LORD, and afflict thine heritage. Their words are heavier than stones, and when they hurl them at the Lord’s people with cruel intent, they do great mischief: “They utter and speak hard things. All the workers of...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
They break in pieces thy people, O LORD, — There is a strong plea. Hear that declaration, for the Lord of hosts says to his people, “He that toucheth you toucheth the apple of mine eye.” In days of persecution the saints earnestly pray in this fashion, “They break in pieces thy people, Jehovah,”
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And afflict thine heritage. They slay the widow and the stranger, and murder the fatherless. This made the appeal still stronger, for God’s is “a Father of the fatherless, and a Judge of the widows.”
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
They slay the widow and the stranger, and murder the fatherless. Do you wonder that the psalmist prayed, “O God of vengeance, show thyself”? Can you see the fatherless robbed, and the widow and the stranger oppressed, without feeling your indignation burn? He who is never indignant has no virtue in him. He who cannot burn like coals of juniper...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Yet they say, The LORD shall not see, neither shall the God of Jacob regard it. They were practically atheists, for, if they had a god nominally, they regarded him as a god who did not observe sins, a blind deity, a god who took no note of evil. Do you not think that this is the prevailing religion of today? Are there not many who say, “Jehovah...
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...
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:”
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...
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...