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Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Or is he slain according to the slaughter of them that are slain by him? In measure, when it shooteth forth, thou wilt debate with it: God always chasteneth his people in measure; he makes a debate about it; he weighs their troubles in scales, and their sorrows in balances.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
He stayeth his rough wind in the day of the east wind. He never sends too many troubles at a time; if the east wind is blowing, he does not send his rough wind. We have much to thank God for, that he times our troubles, had they come an hour before, they might have been too much for us; had they been kept back a week longer, they might have...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
By this therefore shall the iniquity of Jacob be purged; and this is all the fruit to take away his sin; When one of the old Puritans was afflicted with a very painful disease, —perhaps the most painful to which flesh is heir, — he kept crying out, “The use, Lord? The use, Lord? Show me the use of it.” This should be the point at which the...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
The wilderness and the solitary place shall be glad for them; They shall be so glad that they shall inspire gladness where all was desolation, and brooding, melancholy batswing, and dragon’s howl. “The wilderness and the solitary place shall be glad for them.” Isa_35:1. And the desert shall rejoice, and blossom as the rose. God’s people are a...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
It shall blossom abundantly, and rejoice even with joy and singing: the glory of Lebanon shall be given unto it, the excellency of Carmel and Sharon, they shall see the glory of the LORD and the excellency of our God. A wonderful sight to see, for there is one of the most lovely sights in the world when the glory and excellency of God are to be...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Strengthen ye the weak hands, and confirm the feeble knees. Are there such here tonight? No doubt there are — weak at work, and weak at praying. The two things go together — weak hands and feeble knees. May they both be strengthened.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Say to them that are of a fearful heart, be strong, fear not: behold, your God will come with vengeance, even God with a recompense; he will come and save you. It is very singular how salvation and vengeance are so often associated together in Scripture. It is the day of salvation,” and the day of vengeance of our God to comfort all that mourn.”...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Then the eyes of the blind shall be opened, and the ears of the deaf shall be unstopped. Then shall the lame man leap as an hart, and the tongue of the dumb sing: for in the wilderness shall waters break out, and streams in the desert. See what the presence of Christ does. See what the presence of Christ’s people will do when he comes in them and...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And the parched ground shall become a pool, and the thirsty land springs of water: in the habitation of dragons, where each lay, shall be grass with reeds and rushes. The greenest spots your eye ever rested upon are just there where the grass is so rooted in the morass that it is always green with a delicate tinge, and the reeds and rushes spring...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And an highway shall be there, and a way, and it shall be called The way of holiness; the unclean shall not pass over it; but it shall be for those: the wayfaring men, though fools, shall not err therein. Oh! what a blessing that is to us poor fools! We should err anywhere. To err is human, and we seem to have come in for a double share of it. The...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
No lion shall be there, nor any ravenous beast shall go up thereon, it shall not be found there; but the redeemed shall walk there: And the ransomed of the LORD shall return, and come to Zion with songs and everlasting joy upon their heads: they shall obtain joy and gladness, and sorrow and sighing shall flee away. Like frightened things. They...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Comfort ye, comfort ye my people, saith your God. Speak ye comfortably to Jerusalem, and cry unto her, that her warfare is accomplished, that her iniquity is pardoned: for she hath receiveth of the LORD’S hand double for all her sins. God would have his people happy. He knows that we are not in strong, vigorous state, neither do we honour his name...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Comfort ye, comfort ye my people, saith your God. Speak ye comfortably to Jerusalem. The loss of comfort is no small loss. God would have his people happy. They are in the best condition for serving him, and less likely to be overcome by the temptations of the world, when the joy of the Lord is their strength. Therefore, three times over he bids...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Comfort ye, comfort ye my people, saith your God. “They need it, and they shall have it. Mind, O my servants, that you give it to them: Comfort ye, comfort ye my people, saith your God.”
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
40:9-11. O Zion, that bringest good tidings, get thee up into the high mountain; O Jerusalem, that bringest good tidings, lift up thy voice with strength; lift it up, be not afraid; say unto the cities of Judah, Behold your God! Behold, the Lord God will come with a strong hand, and his arm shall rule for him: behold, his reward is with him, and...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And cry unto her, that her warfare is accomplished, After all beloved, you have not to fight your own battles. Under one aspect, you may have to do so; but the great fight is already over, that fight which is so much greater than all others, that the lesser ones are scarcely worthy of the name of warfare. You have but to scatter the foes whom your...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Speak ye comfortably to Jerusalem, and cry unto her, that her warfare is accomplished, that her iniquity is pardoned: for she hath received of the LORD’S hand double for all her sins. The first meaning of these words was that, as Jerusalem had passed through a time of great tribulation, she should have a season of rest, but the grand gospel...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
The voice of him that crieth in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the LORD, make straight in the desert a highway for our God. You know this was John the Baptist coming to proclaim the Saviour. That was the best comfort God’s people could have — the coming of the Lord. So it is now. The joy of the Church is the coming of the Lord, and to each...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
The voice of him that crieth in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the LORD, make straight in the desert a highway for our God. You have not to turn the wilderness into a garden; you have only to make “a highway for our God.” It is the presence of God that you want, O sorrowing soul, O mourning Church! Let the Lord but come to you, and then all...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
The voice of him that crieth in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the LORD, make straight in the desert a highway for our God. Every valley shall be exalted, and every mountain and hill shall be made low: and the crooked shall be made straight, and the rough places plain: When God means to come to men, nothing can stop him or block up his...