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Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I gave my back to the smiters, and my checks to them that plucked off the hair: I hid not my face from shame and spitting. Now let me go back a little, and read again the third verse, “I clothe the heavens with blackness, and I make sackcloth their covering.” “I gave my back to the smiters, and my checks to them that plucked off the hair.” It is...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I gave my back to the smiters, and my cheeks to them that plucked off the hair: I hid not my face from shame and spitting. For the Lord GOD will help me, therefore shall I not be confounded, therefore have I set my face like a flint, and I know that I shall not be ashamed. Even though he had to stoop so low as to endure shame and spitting, he knew...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
For the Lord God will help me,.... As he promised he would, and did, Psalms 89:21, which is no contradiction to the deity of Christ, nor any suggestion of weakness in him; for he is the true God, and has all divine perfections in him; is equal to his Father in power, as well as in glory, and therefore equal to the work of redemption, as his other...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For the Lord GOD will help me; This is Christ still speaking. Though God himself, yet as the God-Man, looking to his Father for help in the dread struggle through which he went to save us, he declared, “The Lord God will help me.” Isa_50:7. Therefore shall I not be confounded: therefore have I set my face like a flint, and I know that I shall not...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For the Lord GOD will help me; therefore shall I not be confounded: therefore have I set my face like a flint, and I know that I shall not be ashamed. He is near that justifieth me; who will contend with me? let us stand together: who is mine adversary? let him come near to me. Christ is innocent, and therefore he defies all his accusers. Christ...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
He is near that justifieth me,.... His Father was "near" him in his whole state of humiliation; he left him not alone; he was at his right hand, and therefore he was not moved; and "justified" him from all the calumnies of his enemies, or the false charges they brought against him, and from all the sins of his people that were upon him; these he...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
He is near that justifieth me; who will contend with, me? let us stand together: who is mine adversary? let him come near to me. Behold, the Lord GOD will help me; who is he that shall condemn me? lo, they all shall wax old as a garment; the moth shall eat them up. Will any now come to battle against Christ, and hope to conquer him? Voltaire used...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
He is near that justifieth me; who will contend with me? Our Lord Jesus Christ was justified in his resurrection. He took his people’s sin upon him, and therefore he had to die in their place; but his work was so complete that he was himself justified as well as all his people and he challenges anyone to lay anything to his charge.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Let us stand together: who is mine adversary? let him come near to me. Behold, the Lord God will help me, who is he that shall condemn me? lo, they all shall wax old as a garment; the moth shall eat them up. Who is among you that feareth the LORD, that obeyeth the voice of his servant, that walketh in darkness, and hath no light? It is the Saviour...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Behold, the Lord God will help me,.... This is repeated from Isaiah 50:7, [See comments on Isaiah 50:7]; to show the certainty of it, the strength of his faith in it, and to discourage his enemies: who is he that shall condemn me? make me out a wicked person (c), prove me guilty, and pass sentence upon me, when thus acquitted and justified by the...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Behold, the Lord GOD will help me; who is he that shall condemn me? lo, they all shall wax old as a garment; the moth shall eat them up. The enemies of Christ shall all pass away, they shall be utterly destroyed. Now comes a blessed lesson for us. As Christ persevered in his great work even to the end, so let us do the same.
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Who is among you that feareth the Lord?.... Not with a slavish fear of the awful majesty of God, or of his tremendous judgments, or of wrath to come, but with a filial fear, a fear of the Lord, and his goodness, which is an internal principle in the heart, a reverential affection for God, a godly fear of him; is attended with faith in him, and joy...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Who is among you — Here is a very blessed question. Christ, having passed through all the trouble that could be passed through, and having come out of it triumphant, now looks round on all his followers, on all the children of God, and he says, “Who is among you” — Isa_50:10. That feareth the LORD, that obeyeth the voice of his servant, that...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Who is among you that feareth the LORD, that obeyeth the voice of his servant, that walketh in darkness, and hath no light? let him trust in the name of the LORD, and stay upon his God. Let not the darkness keep you back any more than it did your Master, still go on, and stay yourselves upon your God.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Let him trust in the name of the LORD, and stay upon his God. In darkness or in the light, take heed that ye do this, when everything about you seems contrary to the divine promises, and your spirits are ready to sink, take heed to this good counsel of your Saviour: “Let him trust in the name of the Lord, and stay upon his God.”
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Behold, all ye that kindle a fire,.... To enlighten and warm yourselves; who, rejecting Christ the Light of the world, and despising the glorious light of his Gospel, and loving darkness rather than light, set up the light of nature and reason as the rule of faith and practice; or the traditions and doctrines of men to be guided by; or their own...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Behold, all ye that kindle a fire, that compass yourselves about with sparks: walk in the light of your fire, and in the sparks that ye have kindled. If you think to make yourselves happy in sin, go and do it. If you fancy that your own righteousness will save you, go and try it. Isa_50:11. This shall ye have of mine hand; ye shall lie down in...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Behold, all ye that kindle a fire,— Listen to this, ye who live without God, yet think yourselves happy; ye who have no hope of the great hereafter, yet are content with the present: “Behold, all ye that kindle a fire,”— Isa_50:11. That compass yourselves about with sparks: walk in the light of your fire, and, in the sparks that ye have kindled....
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Behold, all ye that kindle a fire, Ye who would fain save yourselves, — Isa_50:11. That compass yourselves about with sparks: Or, firebrands, — Isa_50:11. Walk in the light of your fire, and in the sparks — Or, flambeaux — Isa_50:11. That ye have kindled. That will be the end of it. This grand illumination of yours, — all your good works, all your...