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Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And I will make all my mountain, a way, and my highways shall be exalted. Behold, these shall come from far: and, lo, these from the north and from the west; and these from the land of Sinim. Sing, O heavens; and be joyful, O earth; and break forth into singing, O mountains: for the LORD hath comforted his people, Well may heavens and earth and...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Behold, these shall come from far,.... This is a prophecy of the conversion of the Jews, or of the Gentiles, or of both, in the latter day, in the several parts of the world; who shall come to Christ, and to his churches, and join in fellowship with them: the allusion is to the return of the Jews from their captivity in Babylon, and from all other...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Behold, these shall come from far: and, lo, these from the north and from the west; and these from the land of Sinim. “The land of Sinim” signifies China. Is it not strange that, in this Book, we should find mention of the land of Sinim, the country of China? But God has a people there, and they shall come to him. I was delighted, last Tuesday, to...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Sing, O heavens, and be joyful, O earth,.... Which may be understood of the heavens, and the earth by a personification, a figure usual in Scripture, to express the greatness of the benefit received, and to raise thankfulness and admiration in the hearts of God's people; see Psalms 90:11 or by the heavens may be meant the angels in heaven, who, as...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Sing, O heavens; and be joyful, O earth; and break forth into singing, O mountains: for the LORD hath comforted his people, and will have mercy upon his afflicted. But Zion said, The LORD hath forsaken me, and my Lord hath forgotten me. Can a woman forget her sucking child, that she should not have compassion on the son of her womb? yea, they may...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Sing, O heavens; and be joyful, O earth; and break forth into singing, O mountains: for the Lord hath comforted his people, and will have mercy upon his afflicted. How? Why, by the very coming of Christ, by his birth at Bethlehem, and all the blessings which come with the Incarnate God, his afflicted ones are consoled, and all his people are...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And will have mercy upon his afflicted. But Zion said, The LORD hath forsaken me, and my Lord hath forgotten me. Zion said so, but it was not true; hear what the Lord says:-
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Sing, O heavens; and be joyful, O earth; and break forth into singing, O mountains; for the LORD hath comforted his people, and will have mercy upon his afflicted. When God blesses his Church, he blesses the world through her. Hence, heaven and earth are invited to be glad in the gladness of the Church of God. Oh, that God would visit his church;...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
But Zion said,.... By way of objection, as some think, to the above prophecies of glorious and comfortable times; she being now in a very disconsolate condition, and could not tell how to take it in, how it should thus be, when the case was with her as it was; though I rather think the words should be rendered, "for Zion had said"; and which is...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
But Zion said, — Hear the lament of the poor Jewish Church, like a castaway left all alone, — Isa_49:14. The LORD hath forsaken me, and my Lord hath forgotten me. When we are glad In the Lord, and are singing out our heart’s joy, there is pretty sure to be someone or other who sorrowfully sighs,” The Lord hath forsaken me.” — People say that there...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
But Zion said, the LORD hath forsaken me, and my LORD hath forgotten me. We often judge contrary to the truth; and when God is blessing us, we dream that he has forgotten us. Oh, wicked unbelief; cruel unbelief! It robs God of glory; it robs us of comfort. It snatches the song out of our mouth, and fills our soul with groaning: “Zion said, the...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Can a woman forget her sucking child, that she should not have compassion on the son of her womb?.... This is the Lord's answer to the church's complaint, instancing in the care and affection of a mother to her child, thereby illustrating his love to his people; he instances in a "woman", the tender sex; in a "child" of her's, an infant, not one...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Can a woman forget her sucking child, that she should not have compassion on the son of her womb? “Can a woman” — the tenderer parent of the two, — “forget her child,” —her own child, her feeble little child that still depends upon her for its nutriment and life, — “her sucking child,” — . Isa_49:15. Yea, they may forget, — It is just possible;...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Can a woman forget her sucking child, that she should not have compassion on the son of her womb yea, they may forget, yet will I not forget thee. Behold, I have graven thee upon the palms of my hands; However unnatural an earthly mother may prove, God will never forsake or forget one of his children. “’Yet,’ saith the Lord, should nature change...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Can a woman forget the sucking child, that she should not have compassion on the son of her womb? Yea, they may forget, yet I will not forget thee. The child is in a condition in which it reminds the mother of itself; her sucking child, her own child. Can she forget it? It is not according to nature, — “’Yet,’ saith the Lord, ‘should nature...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Behold, I have graven thee upon the palms of my hands,.... Not upon his thick clouds, the clouds of heaven under him, always in view, as R. Saadiah Gaon, mentioned by Jarchi, Aben Ezra, and Kimchi: much better the Targum, "lo, as upon the hands thou art engraven before me;'' signifying that his people were always in his sight, his eyes were ever...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Behold, I have graven thee upon the palms of my hands; “I cannot work, I cannot even open the palm of my hand without seeing the memorials of my chosen people: ‘I have graven thee upon the palms of my hands.’”
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Thy walls are continually before me. Thy children shall make haste; thy destroyers and they that made thee waste shall go forth of thee. For God is full of kindness to his people, and cannot forget them. Oh, that they would never forget him!
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Behold, I have graven thee upon the palms of my hands; — Where they must be seen, and where he can do nothing without touching his people while doing it. When a name is engraven on the hand with which a man works, that name goes into his work, and leaves its impress on the work.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Thy walls are continually before me. Thy children shall make haste; thy destroyers and they that made thee waste shall go forth of thee. Jerusalem, the very Jerusalem that is in Palestine, shall be rebuilt. God will remember her walls, and the Church of God in Israel shall yet rise from that sad low estate in which it has been these many...