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John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
O thou afflicted, tossed with tempests, and not comforted,.... Or, "O thou poor" (s) church; for the first Christian churches chiefly consisted of poor persons, not many mighty and noble being called; and which were greatly "afflicted" with false teachers, who broached errors and heresies, and made schisms among them; and "tossed with tempests"...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
O thou afflicted, tossed with tempest, and not comforted, behold, I will lay thy stones with fair colors, and lay thy foundations with sapphires. Built with jewels.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
O thou afflicted, tossed with tempest, and not comforted, — Where art thou? Hast thou come in here to seek the consolation thou canst not find anywhere else? Then see how God lays himself out to comfort thee; he has put into human language the true sympathy for thee that he feels in his heart; and again he says to thee, “O thou afflicted, tossed...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
And I will make thy windows of agates,.... Some sort of which stones, Pliny (x) says, were valued for their clearness like glass; but the stone which bears this name with us is not clear and lucid enough to make windows of. The Septuagint, Vulgate Latin, Syriac, and Arabic versions, render it, "of jasper", a stone more fit for that purpose; and it...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And I will make thy windows of agates, and thy gates of carbuncles, and all thy borders of pleasant stones. They must be rare sights if the windows are so rare. If the windows be of agate, what are the sights that are seen through them? And if the very gates and doors are carbuncles what must there be in the house of love within? If the very...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And I will make thy windows of agates, and thy gates of carbuncles, and all thy borders of pleasant stones. See what riches belong to the Church of the living God; and, as I have already reminded you, everything that belongs to the Church belongs to every member of it. So we expect to see our Lord’s face through a window of agate, and to go...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
And all thy children shall be taught of the Lord,.... The children of the church, who are born in her, and nursed up at her side, and who are the children of God by adoption, which is made manifest by regeneration; these the Lord will take care of that they be "taught", even "all" of them, from the least to the greatest, Jeremiah 31:34, they shall...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And all thy children shall be taught of the LORD; It must be a greater privilege, than windows of agates and gates of carbuncle, to see our children — to see all the children of God — taught by his own Spirit. Isa_54:13. And great shall be the peace of thy children. That is the most precious pearl of all, with its soft radiance, precious to the...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And all thy children shall be taught of the LORD; Our children are often our greatest care. We ask, “How shall they be educated? Where shall we place our boys and our girls?” Put them under the care of God; for, as Elihu said to Job, “Who teacheth like him?”
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And great shall be the peace of thy children. In righteousness shalt thou be established: thou shalt be far from oppression; for thou shalt not fear: and from terror; for it shall not come near thee. The man who has the fear of God within his heart need have no fear of anybody else. “Fear him ye saints, and you will then Have nothing else to fear;...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
In righteousness shalt thou be established,.... In the righteousness of Christ, from whence flows the peace before spoken of, and which is the stability of the church of Christ, and the security of it and its members from condemnation. The doctrine of justification by Christ's righteousness is, as Luther calls it, "articulus stantis vel cadentis...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
In righteousness shalt thou be established: thou shalt be far from oppression; for thou shalt not fear: and from terror; for it shall not come near thee. Behold, they shall surely gather together, but not by me: Enemies will come, but God will not be with them.
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Behold, they shall surely gather together, but not by me,.... Not by the Lord, by his command or order to do his will, and execute his pleasure, which sometimes was the case, as in Sennacherib, Nebuchadnezzar, and others; but so it shall not be, when the enemies of Christ and his people gather together against them in the latter day; this will be...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Whosoever, shall gather together against thee shall fall for thy sake. Behold, I have created the smith that bloweth the coals in the fire, For he cannot blow any more than God lets him. He is God’s creature. The maker of the weapons of war is still in the hands of God.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Behold, they shall surely gather together, You will have enemies, even if you lead the most blameless life that can be lived; for the absolutely blameless One had many cruel enemies who hounded him to death. Isa_54:15. But not by me: God is not with them, for he is on your side. Isa_54:15. Whosoever shall gather together against thee shall fall...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Behold, I have created the smith that bloweth the coals in the fire,.... Into which he puts his iron to soften it, that he may beat it, and form it into what shape he pleases; which descriptive clause is added to show that it is a blacksmith that is intended, and to distinguish him from the carpenter and mason, of whom this word is also used, who...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And that bringeth forth an instrument for his work: and I have created the waster to destroy. When he does his worst, he is only doing what I meant he should do. The divine decree of God still, with its mighty circle, doth encompass the worst deed of man, and overrules it all for the good of his Church.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Behold, I have created the smith that bloweth the coals in the fire, and that bringeth forth an instrument for his work; and I have created the waster to destroy. Even over the most wicked and the most powerful of men, there is the supremacy of God; and deep and mysterious though the doctrine is, yet divine predestination applies even to such...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
No weapon that is formed against thee shall prosper,.... All weapons of war, as the Targum, which are made with a design to hurt and destroy the people of God, shall be rendered useless; not one of them shall prosper to the advantage of their enemies, or so as to answer their design; nor to the hurt and prejudice, ruin and destruction, of the...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
No weapon that is formed against thee shall prosper; — “No weapon” of any kind — however cunningly made, or however deftly handled, — “no weapon that is formed against thee shall prosper;” — Isa_54:17. And every tongue that shall rise against thee in judgment thou shalt condemn. The tongue — that worst of weapons, whose wicked words are sharper...