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Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
He shall judge thy people with righteousness, and thy poor with judgment, “He shall judge thy people with righteousness.” Clothed with divine authority, he shall use it on the behalf of the favoured nation, for whom he shall show himself strong, that they be not misjudged, slandered, or in any way treated maliciously. His sentence shall put their...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
He shall judge thy people with righteousness, and thy poor with judgment. The kingdom of Christ has a special eye to the poor. They are generally passed by and forgotten in the scope of legislature among men, but Christ makes even his poor people — the poor in spirit also — to be the objects of his judgment.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
He shall judge thy people with righteousness and thy poor with judgment. It is the peculiar characteristic of the reigning Christ that he has his eye chiefly upon the poor. Most princes rule in the interest of the great ones around them, but our King rules for the good of the poor of his people.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
The mountains shall bring peace to the people, and the little hills, by righteousness. “The mountains shall bring peace to the people.” Thence, aforetime, rushed the robber bands which infested the country; but now the forts there erected are the guardians of the land, and the watchmen publish far and near the tidings that no foe is to be seen....
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
The mountains shall bring peace to the people, and the little hills, by righteousness. He shall judge the poor of the people, he shall save the children of the needy, and shall break in pieces the oppressor. In the reign of Christ there shall be no treading down of the little by great — no pressure put upon the feeble by the strong, but his right...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
The mountains shall bring peace to the people, and the little hills, by righteousness. The reign of Christ is the reign of righteousness, the rule of true uprightness; and consequently it is the reign of peace, and love, and joy. Oh that his gentle rule were acknowledged by all the kings of this world!
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
The mountains shall bring peace to thee people and the little hills, by righteousness. Those mountains, in whose caves robbers lurked, and from whose heights enemies often came down, and swept away the little estates of the lowlanders, even these shall bring peace and comfort. “No strife shall vex Messiah’s reign.” When Jesus Christ comes a second...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
He shall judge the poor of the people, he shall save the children of the needy, and shall break in pieces the oppressor. “He shall judge the poor of the people.” He will do them justice, yea, and blessed be his name, more than justice, for he will delight to do them good. “He shall save the children of the needy.” Poor, helpless things, they were...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
He shall judge the poor of the people, he shall save the children of the needy, and shall break in pieces the oppressor. This is the King we want to reign over us. Oh, that the day were come for him to take the crowns from all other heads, and to wear them on his own, and to take all sceptres from other hands, and gather sheaves of them beneath...
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...
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...
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.
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...
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...
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...