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Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Great is the LORD, and greatly to be praised — Surely a great God should have great praise: “greatly to be praised” — Psa_48:1. In the city of our God, in the mountain of his holiness. If there is any place where he ought to be praised, surely it is there. Even if all the rest of the world is silent, let God be praised “in the mountain of his...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Beautiful for situation, the joy of the whole earth, in mount Zion, on the sides of the north, the city of the great King. Thus the Jew praises Jerusalem, and thus the Christian praises the Church. The Church of Christ is, to his eye, the most precious thing in the whole world, and there is nothing upon the face of the earth that is so lovely in...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
God is known in her palaces for a refuge. Are not all her people kings? Therefore they live in palaces; and they none of them trust in themselves, God is known to them as a refuge.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For, lo, the kings were assembled, The adversaries, who boasted that they would destroy Jerusalem: “the kings were assembled,”
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
They passed by together. They saw it, and so they marveled; they were troubled, and hasted away. Fear took hold upon them there, and pain, as of a woman in travail. Thou brakest the ships of Tarshish with an east wind. The adversaries of Zion looked up at the city set on that high hill, and they despaired of being able to capture it; and, in like...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For, lo, the kings were assembled, they passed by together. They saw it, and so they marveled; They came up with their confederate bands of kings to attack Jerusalem, and they looked at it, and wondered at its strength and beauty.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
They were troubled, and hasted away, If they came quickly, they went away still more quickly, hurrying off like a band of frightened children.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Fear took hold upon them there, and pain, as of a woman in travail. Thou breakest the ships of Tarshish with an east wind. God broke up the confederacies of kings that were leagued against his people. Even the great galleons of Tarshish were dashed to pieces when the Lord blew with his wind, and scattered them, as, many centuries later, he did...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
As we have heard, so have we seen in the city of the LORD of hosts, in the city of our God: God will establish it for ever. Selah. We have thought of thy lovingkindness, O God, in the midst of thy temple. According to thy name, O God, so is thy praise unto the ends of the earth: thy right hand is full of righteousness. Let mount Zion rejoice, let...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
As we have heard, so have we seen in the city of the LORD of host, in the city of our God: God will establish it for ever. Selah. Well might there be a pause here for solemn consideration, for putting the harp strings right, and lifting up the heart to the Lord in praise.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
We have thought of thy lovingkindness, O God, in the midst of thy temple.” Here is a blessed subject, “thy lovingkindness, O God;” — a blessed people, we who have enjoyed it; — a blessed occupation, “we have thought of thy lovingkindness,” — and a blessed place in which to do it, “in the midst of thy temple.” When we are in the midst of the Lord’s...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
According to thy name, O God, so is thy praise unto the ends of the earth: As is God’s name, so is his fame; unto the very ends of the earth shall men hear the praises of the Lord, especially when he delivers his people. Psa_48:10. Thy right hand is full of righteousness. God’s right hand is never empty: “thy right hand is full;” and when he comes...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Let mount Zion rejoice, let the daughters of Judah be glad, because of thy judgments. That is, the smaller cities of Judah, let them sing, as well as Jerusalem, the high praises of their delivering God. Perhaps it refers to the women who, in times of war, have to suffer most and worst of all; let them be loudest in their joyous music; as Miriam...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Walk about Zion, and go round about her: tell the towers thereof. Mark ye well her bulwarks, consider her palaces; that ye may tell it to the generation following. Sunday-school teachers, note the security of the Church of God, mark the eternal truth on which she is founded, the everlasting promises by which she is guarded, the forts and bastions...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For this God is our God for ever and ever: he will be our guide even unto death. But the Hebrew is better still: “He will be our guide even over death.” We shall trample down death; or, as one puts it, we shall stand by the grave of death. What a glorious place for us to stand in when death itself is dead through the ever-living Christ, and the...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Hear this, all ye people; give ear, all ye inhabitants of the world: both low and high, rich and poor, together. Whenever God has a voice for men, it is meant for all sorts of men. No Scripture is of private interpretation. No warning is intended only for a few. Hear ye this, then, all ye people. Whether ye be low, ye are not too low to listen to...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
My mouth shall speak of wisdom; and the meditation of my heart shall be of understanding. I will incline mine ear to a parable: I will open my dark saying upon the harp. Mysteries are to be preached, but they are to be preached with an earnest endeavor on the preacher’s part to make them plain. If it be a dark saying, yet let it be open; and, if...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Wherefore should I fear in the days of evil, when the iniquity of my heels shall compass me about? We may read it: “The iniquity of my supplanters shall compass me about.” There may some dark days when the wicked seed, whose delight it is to bite at the heel of the seed of God, will gather around us; and we think, perhaps, that they will be too...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
They that trust in their wealth, and boast themselves in the multitude of their riches; none of them can by any means redeem his brother, nor give to God a ransom for him: They may be rich as Croesus, but they cannot save a comrade from the grave. They may fee the physician, but they cannot bribe death. How little is the power of wealth, after...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
(For the redemption of their soul is precious, and it ceaseth for ever:) There is no redemption but one, and if a soul be unredeemed, the hope of it ceaseth for ever.