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Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Their eyes stand out with fatness: they have more than heart could wish. They are corrupt, and speak wickedly concerning oppression: they speak loftily. What big words they utter! How they boast! How they despise the poor! How they sneer at religion! It is dreadful to hear them; and for a child of God, who is conscious of doing right, and of...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Their eyes stand out with fatness: they have more than heart could wish. Superfluities. They never have to ask where a meal will come from. They have more than they want.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
They are corrupt, and speak wickedly concerning oppression: they speak loftily. They set their mouth against the heavens, Such big mouths—such blasphemous words—have they, that they attack God himself. There is nothing too high for them to drag it down—nothing too pure for them to slander. “They set their mouth against the heavens.”
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And their tongue walketh through the earth. Like the ravening lion of the pit, seeking characters that they may destroy or devour. There is no end to the mischief that such people can do. If they are not in trouble themselves, they make much trouble for other people; and while they set themselves on so high a pinnacle, they are mean enough to...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
They set their mouth against the heavens, and their tongue walketh through the earth. Leaving nobody alone, sparing no character, however pure.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
They set their mouth against the heavens, As if this earth did not contain room enough for their malice, “They set their mouth against the heavens.” Psa_73:9. And their tongue walketh through the earth. Letting nobody alone, having a hard word for everybody except their own chosen coterie.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And their tongue walketh through the earth. Like the lion seeking its prey, they take long walks in their slander. Nobody is safe from them.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Therefore his people return hither: and waters of a full cup are wrung out to them. They have to drink of the bitter cup again and again; it seems to them to be always full; and the wicked have their full cup, — filled, as it seems, with the juice from the very finest fruit.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Therefore his people return hither: and waters of a full cup are wrung out to them. And they say, How doth God know? and is there knowledge in the most High? They get to doubt the personality of God. If they will not precisely say that there is no God, yet they go as near to it as they can; they come to what is about the same thing. They have a...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Therefore his people return hither: and waters of a full cup are wrung out to them. And they say “How doth God know? and is there knowledge in the most high?” They pretend that God is, as it were, only like King Log, taking no account of what is done by the sons of men. “He does not notice our feastings, or listen to our blasphemies;” so they say.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Therefore his people return hither: and waters of a full cup are wrung out to them. And they say, How doth God know? and is there knowledge in the most High? God’s sorrowing children have to drink of the bitter cup, while these proud ones are eating of the fat of the land.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And they say, How doth God know? and is there knowledge in the most High? They admit that there is a God, but they ask, “What does he know, and how does he know?”
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Behold, these are the ungodly, who prosper in the world; they increase in riches. Verily I have cleansed my heart in vain, and washed my hands in innocency. For all the day long have I been plagued, and chastened every morning. It was one of his greatest sorrows that, the more holy he was, the more troubled he seemed to be; and the more closely he...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Behold, these are the ungodly, who prosper in the world; they increase in riches. And this is what the good man said,
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Behold, these are the ungodly, who prosper in the world; they increase in riches. And yet why do we wonder at this? The bullock that is intended to be killed is the first to be fatted, and he that is doomed to destruction will often be allowed to prosper. Would you not let them have as much pleasure as they can have in this life, for they will...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Behold, these are the ungodly, who prosper in the world; they increase in riches. Verily I have cleansed my heart in vain, and washed my hands in innocency. For all the day long have I been plagued, and chastened every morning. When Asaph got into this unbelieving state of mind, it did look as if all his care of his character and all his desire to...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Verily I have cleansed my heart in vain, and washed my hands in innocency. For all the day long have I been plagued, and chastened every morning. “Is this all I am to get by my righteousness? Is this the reward of following after God, to be whipped as soon as I wake, and to be sent to bed sore with grief?”
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Verily I have cleansed my heart in vain, and washed my hands in innocency. “Surely,” said he “my holy life, my desire to be right with God and man, is a good-for-nothing thing. I do not prosper; I do not increase in riches, but it is the very reverse with me.”
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For all the day long have I been plagued, and chastened every morning. Cannot you imagine a son of very wise parents, and very loving parents, saying, “Why, look at that boy in the street! He has no father to flog him, no mother to scold him, he can do just as he likes; but, as for me, if I do a little wrong, I am whipped for it?” Ah, my lad! the...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
If I say, I will speak thus; behold, I should offend against the generation of thy children. You know that some people have made up a kind of proverb like this, “If you think it, you may as well speak it;” but it is not so. Bad thoughts should never be spoken. If a man has a bottle of whisky in his house, or in his pocket, that is bad enough; but...