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Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Thy walls are continually before me. Thy children shall make haste, thy destroyer and they that make thee waste shall go forth of thee. Lift up thine eyes round about, and behold: all that gather themselves together, and come to thee. As I live, saith the LORD, thou shalt surely clothe thee with them all, as with an ornament, and bind them on...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Behold, I have graven thee upon the palms of my hands; How appropriately Christ can say this when he looks on the nail-prints, “I have graven thee upon the palms of my hands”! As I said, this morning, Jesus can give nothing, he can take nothing, he can do nothing, he can hold nothing, without remembering his people: “I have graven thee upon the...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Thy walls are continually before me. Thy children shall make haste; There shall be many of them. Converts shall be added to the church in great numbers. They shall hurry up; they shall not be long in coming. Very often they delay too long. The promise is, “Thy children shall make haste.”
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Thy children shall make haste,.... Regenerate persons, young converts, such as are born again of incorruptible seed by the word; these shall flock to the church, as doves to the windows; join themselves to her, and submit to Gospel ordinances, and make haste, and delay not, to keep the Lord's commandments; which is no small pleasure, joy, and...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Thy destroyers and they that make thee waste shall go forth of thee. I wish this were carried out. If it were, many of the churches of Christ, which are plagued with false doctrines and worldly habits, which are laying them waste, would be delivered from those curses. The enemies outside the walls, however malicious they are, will never be so...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Lift up thine eyes round about, and behold,.... Look east, west, north, and south, and behold the flocking converts from all parts; see on Isaiah 49:12. The words are spoken to the church, and for her comfort; and so the Targum, "lift up thine eyes round about, O Jerusalem, and see all the children of the people of thy captivity:'' all these...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Lift up thine eyes round about, and behold: all these gather themselves together, and come to thee. What are all converted Gentiles doing, after all, but coming to the one Church? It is no longer a matter of Jew or Gentile, but all who believe are one in Christ Jesus. Let poor Zion rejoice that she herself is enriched by the conversion of these...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Lift up thine eyes round about, and behold; all these gather themselves together, and come to thee. There is a great company coming. The church is going to be increased. Have faith in God. We are not going to receive them now by ones and twos; we thank God we receive them by tens and scores. They are coming by hundreds and by thousands; let us...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
For thy waste and thy desolate places, and the land of thy destruction,.... Or "thy land of destruction, or thy destroyed land" (n); laid waste and desolate by the enemy, without inhabitants; such countries in which there were few professors of the true religion: shall even now be too narrow, by reason of the inhabitants; because of the multitude...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For thy waste and thy desolate places, and the land of thy destruction, shall even now be too narrow by reason of the inhabitants, and they that swallowed thee up shall be far away. The children which thou shalt have, after thou hast lost the other, — The children of thy childlessness, — so it runs, — the children of thy widowhood. It was strange...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For thy waste and thy desolate places, and the land of thy destruction, shall even now be too narrow by reason of the inhabitants, and they that swallowed thee up shall be far away. The children which thou shalt have, after thou hast lost the other, shall say again in thine ears, The place is too strait for me: give place to me that I may dwell....
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
The children which thou shalt have, after thou hast lost the other,.... Which "other lost" are not the Jews, the broken branches, rejected and cut off for unbelief; and the "children after" them not the Gentiles converted, which took their place; but "the other" are such who have been destroyed by the Heathen persecutions, and especially by the...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Shall say again in thine ears, The place is too strait for me: give place to me that I may dwell. Then shalt thou say in thine heart, Who hath begotten me these, seeing I have lost my children, and am desolate, a captive, and removing to and fro? and who hath brought up these? Behold, I was left alone; these, where had they been? Thus saith the...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Then shalt thou say in thine heart,.... In, a way of admiration, secretly within herself, astonished at the numerous crowds flocking in; who hath begotten me these? not their natural parents, nor they themselves; for they are not born of blood, nor of the will of man, nor of the will of the flesh; nor ministers of the Gospel, though they are...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Thus saith the Lord God,.... In answer to the questions, where had these children been? and from whence did they come? who begot them, and brought them up? and by what means was all this done, or would be done? I will lift up mine hand to the Gentiles; beckoning them to come unto him, directing and ordering them what to do; or rather exerting the...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Thus saith the Lord GOD, Behold, I will lift up mine hand to the Gentiles, and set up my standard to the people: and they shall bring thy sons in their arms, and thy daughters shall be carried upon their shoulders. And kings shall be thy nursing fathers, and their queens thy nursing mothers: they shall bow down to thee with their face toward the...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Thus saith the LORD GOD, Behold, I will lift up mine hand to the Gentiles, and set up my standard to the people; and they shall bring thy sons in their arms, and thy daughters shall be carried upon their shoulders. We do not mind how they are brought if they do but come; some in the arms, and some after the Oriental method of putting the child on...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
And kings shall be thy nursing fathers, and their queens thy nursing mothers,.... Who shall show favour and respect to the church and people of God, grant them liberty, and protect and defend them in their religious privileges: for this is to be understood not figuratively of apostles and apostolical men, as Jerom, who are kings and priests unto...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And thou shalt know that I am the LORD. “Jehovah.” “Thou shalt understand the greatness of thy God, his infiniteness, his majesty, his all-sufficiency. ‘Thou shalt know that I am the I AM.’” Isa_49:23. For they shall not be ashamed that wait for me. Glory be to his holy name, none that wait for him shall ever have cause to be ashamed; may we all...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And kings shall be thy nursing fathers, and their queens thy nursing mothers: It will take a long time before they learn that art, for kings and queens have generally been destroyers of the Church of Christ. Those will be grand days when kings shall be the nourishers of the Church, and queens her nursing mothers. Isa_49:23. They shall bow down to...