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Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
In all their affliction he was afflicted, and the angel of his presence saved them: in his love and in his pity he redeemed them; and he bare them, and carried them all the days of old. Happy Israel! These were her golden days, when she was faithful to God, and God communed very closely with her. Then God was very near to his people, so near that...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
In all their affliction he was afflicted, and the angel of his presence saved them: in his love and in his pity he redeemed them; and he bare them, and carried them all the days of old. This is what he did for them in Egypt, what he did for them in the desert. He was very near them, one with them, very tender to them.
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
But they rebelled,.... Against the Lord, not withstanding he thought so well of them; did so many good things for them; sympathized with them, and showed them so many favours; wretched ingratitude! they rebelled against the Lord in the times of Moses, at the Red sea, and in the wilderness, by their murmurings, unbelief, and idolatry; wherefore he...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
But they rebelled, and vexed his holy Spirit therefore he was turned to be their enemy, and he fought against them. This was a great change in dispensation, though there was no change in the heart of God. He deals roughly with his people when they rebel against him. They would not be improved by tenderness, so now they must be scourged by his rod,...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
But they rebelled, and vexed his Holy Spirit; therefore he was turned to be their enemy, and he fought against them. Hear ye this, ye people of God! This is what God will do to you if you rebel against him, and vex his Holy Spirit; he will turn to be your enemy, and will fight against you. If God’s people will not yield to his love and his pity,...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Then he remembered the days of old, Moses, and his people,.... Which may be understood either of the Lord, who remembered his lovingkindnesses towards these people, and his tender mercies which had been ever of old; the covenant he made with their fathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob; the wonders he did for them in Egypt, at the Red sea, and in the...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Then he remembered the days of old, His people were never out of his mind, even when they wandered away from him. He remembered the love of their espousals, when they went after him into the wilderness. He remembered the days of old, the happier days, when his people walked closely with him. They also remembered these days. It is strange that they...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Then he remembered the days of old, Moses, and his people, saying, Where is he that brought them up out of the sea with the shepherd of his flock? where is he that put his holy Spirit within him? God begins to think of the past, and of what he did for his people in the days of old.
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
That led them by the right hand of Moses with his glorious arm,.... That is, through the Red sea, as the next clause shows: this was done by the right hand of Moses, and the rod in it, to which Kimchi thinks respect is had; who, by divine order, lifted up his rod, and stretched out his hand over the sea, and divided it, and so led the people...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
That led them by the right hand of Moses with his glorious arm, dividing the water before them, to make himself an everlasting name? That led them through the deep, as an horse in the wilderness, that they should not stumble? As a beast goeth down into the valley, the Spirit of the LORD caused him to rest: so didst thou lead thy people, to make...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
That led them through the deep,.... The depths, the bottom of the sea; not through the shallow, but where the waters had been deepest, the descent greatest; and at the bottom of which might have been expected much filth and dirt to hinder them in their passage, yet through this he led them: as an horse in the wilderness; or rather, "in a plain",...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
As a beast goeth down into the valley,.... Softly and gently, especially when laden; which may have some respect to the descent of the Israelites into the sea, into which they entered without any fear and dread, and without any hurry and precipitation, though Pharaoh's host was behind them; or rather, "as a beast goes along a valley", or "plain"...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Look down from heaven,.... Here begins the prayer of the church and people of God, which continues to the end of the chapter, goes through the next, and the answer to which begins at Isaiah 65:1. Aben Ezra calls it the prayer of the wise in captivity: it seems to be the petition of some converts among the Jews, either in the first times of the...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Look down from heaven, Thou art still there, though we have wandered. Look down upon us from heaven, O, Lord!
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And behold from the habitation of thy holiness and of thy glory: where is thy zeal and thy strength, the sounding of thy bowels and of thy mercies toward me? Are they restrained? Doubtless thou art our father, though Abraham be ignorant of us, and Israel acknowledge us not; thou, O Lord, art our father, our redeemer; thy name is from everlasting....
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Look down from heaven, and behold from the habitation of thy holiness and of thy glory: where is thy zeal and thy strength, the sounding of thy bowels and of thy mercies toward me? are they restrained? If you are in trouble tonight, if you have lost the light of God’s countenance, here are words for you to use in prayer to God.
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Doubtless thou art our father,.... Therefore why shouldst thou restrain thy mercies and bowels of compassion from us? or therefore look down upon us, and behold us; the church pleads her relation to God, and in a strong manner; faith of interest continued with her, though he hid his face from her. This relation of father and children, which...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Doubtless thou art our father, though Abraham be ignorant of us, and Israel acknowledge us not: thou, O LORD, art our father, our redeemer; thy name is from everlasting. Get a hold of this great truth, believer. Say, “God is my Father. He is my Father still; and though he smite me, though he frown upon me, I will not quit my hold on him; I will...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
O Lord, why hast thou made us to err from thy ways, and hardened our heart from thy fear?.... These are the words, not of wicked men among the Jews, charging all their errors, hardness of heart, and wickedness they were guilty of, upon the Lord, as if he was the author and occasion of them, and led them into them; but of the truly godly, lamenting...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
O Lord, why hast thou made us to err from thy ways, and hardened our heart from thy fear? Return for thy servants’ sake, the tribes of thine inheritance. The people of thy holiness. Or, “Thy holy people.”