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Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And strangers shall stand and feed your flocks, and the sons of the alien shall be your plowmen and your vinedressers. But ye shall be named the Priests of the LORD: men shall call you the Ministers of our God: ye shall eat the riches of the Gentiles, and in their glory shall ye boast yourselves. Because of the sin of his people, the aliens and...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
But ye shall be named the priests of the Lord,.... Or, "and ye shall be named", c. which Jerom understands of the builders of cities, pastors of flocks, the ploughmen and vinedressers, the strangers and the sons of the alien, that these also should be called priests: but rather it designs the Jews, when they shall be called and converted, and when...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Men shall call you ministers of our God: ye shall eat the riches of the Gentiles, and in their glory shall ye boast yourselves. For all things are of God, and all things are yours through Jesus Christ. In that same day in which the Lord comforts mourners and binds up their broken hearts, he gives them to enter into a sacred priesthood, in which...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Men shall call you the Ministers of our God: ye shall eat the riches of the Gentiles, and in their glory shall ye boast yourselves. God’s chosen people are his children; all the rest of mankind are only his servants, and the servants must wait upon the children whether they like it or not. Even of the angels in heaven it is written, “Are they not...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
For your shame you shall have double,.... Or, "for your double shame" (b); instead of being a reproach, a proverb, a taunt, and a curse, as the Jews now are everywhere; being converted, they will have double honour, both in things civil and religious, be in great esteem with Christ, and all his people: and for confusion they shall rejoice in their...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For your shame ye shall have double; and for confusion they shall rejoice in their portion: You may be persecuted: your name may be cast out as evil, but when the Lord in mercy blesses and visits you, you shall have a wonderful recompense — more than you could have expected. “For your shame ye shall have double.”
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Therefore in their land they shall possess the double, everlasting joy shall be unto them. For I the LORD love judgment, I hate robbery for burnt offering; and I will direct their work in truth, and I will make an everlasting covenant with them. There are churches in the world that are not churches of God, and they supply their needs by forged...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
for your shame ye shall have double; and for confusion they shall rejoice in their portion: therefore in their land they shall possess the double : everlasting joy shall be unto them. for I the Lord love judgment, I hate robbery for burnt offering; — God cannot endure that we should sacrifice to him what we have gained by oppression and...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For your shame ye shall have double; and for confusion they shall rejoice in their portion: That is a sweet state of heart for any of us to be in, — to rejoice in our portion. Oh, what a wonderful portion we have to rejoice in! How blessed is the lot of God’s chosen people! However small a part of our portion may be visible to the eye here below,...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
For I the Lord love judgment,.... To do that which is right and just himself, and to see it done by others, and therefore he will right the wrongs of his people; and whereas the Jews, though they have justly suffered his vengeance for their sins, yet being reproached and abused beyond measure by the Gentiles, among whom they are dispersed; the...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And I will direct their work in truth, and I will make an everlasting covenant with them. And their seed shall be known among the Gentiles, and their offspring among the people: all that see them shall acknowledge them, that they are the seed which the Lord hath blessed. A visible stamp of divine blessing shall be upon believers in Christ: “they...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For I the LORD love judgment, I hate robbery for burnt offering; and I will direct their work in truth, and I will make an everlasting covenant with them. That is why they have everlasting joy. There would be no everlasting joy if it were not for the everlasting covenant. Those gentlemen who want to cut that word “everlasting” out of our Bibles...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
And their seed shall be known among the Gentiles, and their offspring among the people,.... Not only the Jews will be converted as a body in the latter day, but there will be a succession of converts among them in later ages, and will be known among Christian Gentiles by their faith and love, and good works and holy conversation; and will be taken...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And their seed shall be known among the Gentiles, and their offspring among the people: all that see them shall acknowledge them, that they are the seed which the LORD hath blessed. Oh! to have such distinguishing marks of character about us that all who see us may see that the blessing of God is upon us. And this will be quite consistent with...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And their seed shall be known among the Gentiles, They shall be discerned and distinguished. Just as surely as you may know a Jew anywhere in the world today, so shall men know the people of God. Though they wear no peculiar garb, yet their speech shall betray them. There shall be a something about them which shall bear testimony to the fact that...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And their offspring among the people: all that see them shall acknowledge them, that they are the seed which the LORD hath blessed. I will greatly rejoice — Not a little, for he is a great God, so “I will greatly rejoice” in him. “The Lord hath done great things for us,” let us therefore greatly rejoice in him. “I will greatly rejoice” —
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
I will greatly rejoice in the Lord,.... These are not the words of the prophet spoken in his own person, rejoicing in the goodness of the Lord to his people and countrymen; nor of Christ; but of the church, especially the Jewish church, expressing her joy for benefits received, as declared in the preceding verses. The Targum is, "Jerusalem said,...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I will greatly rejoice in the Lord, Brothers and sisters. I wish we could all catch hold of the spirit of this verse that each one of us would now say, “I will greatly rejoice in the Lord.” Isa_61:10. My soul shall be joyful in my God; What a precious sentence — “My soul shall be joyful in my God.” Isa_61:10. For he hath clothed me with the...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I will greatly rejoice in the Lord, my soul shall be joyful in my God; .for he hath clothed me with the garments of salvation, he hath covered me with the robe of righteousness, as a bridegroom decketh himself with ornaments, and as a bride adorneth herself with her jewels. For as the earth bringeth forth her bud, and as the garden causeth the...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
In the LORD, my soul shall be joyful in my God; Not only shall my lips be full of joy, but my inmost nature, the very essence of my being, “my soul shall be joyful in my God.” “In my God.” That is a stage higher than saying, “I will greatly rejoice in the Lord.” We do greatly rejoice in the Lord, but our very soul is joyful when we can each one...