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Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
LORD, thou wilt ordain peace for us: We may be attacked and assailed for a little while, we may be tossed to and fro; but “Thou wilt ordain peace for us:” Isa_26:12. For thou also hast wrought all our works in us. We have no works in which we can glory; for even if we have an abundance of good works, they are all God’s work in us, and we give him...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
O Lord our God, [other] lords besides thee have had dominion over us,.... Sin and Satan have the dominion over the Lord's people, in a state of unregeneracy; before the good work of grace is wrought in them, every lust is a lord, and is served and obeyed: and Satan is the god of this world by usurpation, and leads men captive at his will. Some...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
O LORD our God, other lords beside thee have had dominion over us: but by thee only will we make mention of thy name. They are dead, they shall not live; they are deceased, they shall not rise: Many of us can look back to the time when we made idols of business and of worldly things; but now these lords are dead, and they shall not live again;...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
O LORD our God, other lords beside thee have had dominion over us: but by thee only will we make mention of thy name. “O Lord, how sadly, how long, how grievously, did those other lords domineer over us; but from this time forth we will know no name but thine; and, when we mention it, it shall be by thy grace, and by thy power alone, that we even...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
O LORD our God, other lords beside thee have had dominion over us: but by thee only will we make mention of thy name. They are dead, they shall not live; they are deceased, they shall not rise: therefore hast thou visited and destroyed them, and made all their memory to perish. Thou hast increased the nation, O LORD, thou, hast increased the...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
[They are] dead, they shall not live; [they are] deceased, they shall not rise,.... The above tyrannical lords, the kings of the earth and their mighty men, associates of the Romish antichrist, who shall be gathered together, and slain at the battle at Armageddon; these shall not live again in this world, nor rise from their graves, and return to...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Therefore hast thou visited and destroyed them, and made all their memory to perish. And a blessed thing it is when the memory of our sins does perish, and we have no desire to be enslaved by them again.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
They are dead, they shall not live; they are deceased, they, shall not rise: therefore hast thou visited and destroyed them, and made all their memory to perish. Yes, our lusts are all dead; they will never live again, thank God. The Sword of the Spirit has slain them: “they are deceased.” We want to have nothing more to do with them, we desire...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Thou hast increased the nation, O Lord, thou hast increased the nation,.... The righteous nation, Isaiah 26:2 the church of God, by the numerous conversions of Jews and Gentiles; when the nation of the Jews shall be born at once, and the fulness and forces of the Gentiles are brought in; when the kingdoms of this world will become the kingdoms of...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Thou hast increased the nation, O LORD, thou hast increased the nation: thou art glorified: God is always glorified in the increase of his people, therefore, we should, above all other reasons, pray for the increase of the Church because God will be thereby glorified.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Thou hadst removed it far unto all the ends of the earth. LORD, in trouble have they visited thee, they poured out a prayer when thy chastening was upon them. That is true of hypocrites; but it is also sweetly true of some whom God is bringing to himself. Child after child has died, loss after loss has broken down the business; now they turn to...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Lord, in trouble have they visited thee,.... This, and the two following verses Isaiah 26:17, represent the troubles and disappointments of the church and people of God, before the destruction of antichrist; in which time of trouble they will visit the Lord, frequent the throne of grace, as saints in afflictions are wont to do; and sometimes this...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Lord, in trouble have they visited thee, they poured out a prayer when thy chastening was upon them. And it was well for them that they did so. God’s true child does not get angry against his Father when he whips him; but, being chastened, he begins to pray; and blessed is that chastening that drives us to our knees: “They poured out a prayer when...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Like as a woman with child,.... By this simile are set forth the great distresses and afflictions the church of Christ will be in, before redemption and deliverance from the antichristian yoke comes: [that] draweth near the time of her delivery; when her burden is great and very troublesome: [is] in pain, [and] crieth out in her pangs; for her...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Like as a woman with child, that draweth near the time of her delivery, is in pain, and crieth out in her pain; so have we been in thy sight O LORD. We have been with child, we have been in pain, we have as it were brought forth wind; we have not wrought any deliverance in the earth; neither have the inhabitants of the world fallen. Ah, no! all...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Like as a woman with child, that draweth near the time of her delivery, is in pain, and crieth out in her pangs; so have we been in thy sight, O LORD. We have been with child, we have been in pain, we have as it were brought forth wind; we have not wrought any deliverance in the earth; neither have the inhabitants of the world fallen. Here is the...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
We have been with child,.... Like women with child; we have been full of hopes and expectations of great things, of deliverance from our enemies, and of the kingdom of Christ being at hand: we have been in pain; in great distress and anxiety, and in fervent and frequent prayer, travailing in birth, which we looked upon as forerunners of a happy...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Thy dead [men] shall live,.... These are the words of Christ to his church and people, promising great and good things to them after their troubles are over, thereby comforting them under all their trials and disappointments; as that such things should come to pass, which would be as life from the dead; as the conversion of the Jews, and of great...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Thy dead men shall live, together with my dead body shall they arise. That note of resurrection comes in as a word of comfort to the most dispirited, the most despairing. As the dead shall live because of Christ, even so is there hope for you who are driven to a very death of despair. You cannot live by your own power; your hopes are all gone,...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Awake and sing, ye that dwell in dust: for thy dew is as the dew of herbs, and the earth shall cast out the dead. Come, my people, enter thou into thy chambers, and shut thy doors about thee: hide thyself as it were for a little moment, until the indignation be overpast. For, behold, the LORD cometh out of his place to punish the inhabitants of...