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Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Wash you, make you clean; put away the evil of your doings from before mine eyes; cease to do evil; Learn to do well; seek judgment, relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow. That is to say,” Bring forth fruits meet for repentance, so that it may be seen that your heart is really changed, and that you desire better things,...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Wash you, make you clean; put away the evil of your doings from before mine eyes; cease to do evil; Learn to do well; Repentance, practical change of life, renewal of heart, the giving up of evil, the following of right, this is what the Lord approves. Otherwise, all your fripperies and trickeries of worship are loathsome to him. Think you that...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Wash you, make you clean; put away the evil of your doings from before mine eyes; cease to do evil; learn to do well; seek judgment, relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow. This is what God asks for: “Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Wash you, make you clean; put away the evil of your doings from before mine eyes; cease to do evil; Learn to do well; seek judgment, relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow. Come now, and let us reason together, saith the LORD: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson,...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Seek judgment, relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow. This is better than all your incense, or the fat of rams and he goats.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Come now, and let us reason together, saith the LORD: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool. There is not as much music, to a poor convinced sinner’s ear, in a whole oratorio of Handel as there is in this one verse of Scripture. But your ear must be attuned to this...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Come now, and let us reason together, saith the LORD: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool. This, too, is what God loves, — confessed sin, pardoned by his infinite mercy and grace.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
If ye be willing and obedient, ye shall eat the good of the land: “You shall not any longer be ‘as a lodge in a garden of cucumbers, as a besieged city;’ you shall be no more desolate, but ‘ye shall eat the good of the land.’ I will take away from you my chastisement when I take away your sin. I will take care to feed you if you will but come back...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
If ye be willing and obedient, ye shall eat the good of the land: But if ye refuse and rebel, ye shall be devoured with the sword: for the mouth of the LORD hath spoken it.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
But if ye refuse and rebel, ye shall be devoured with the sword: for the mouth of the LORD hath spoken it. So the Lord has mercy in his right hand for those who will turn from their sin; but he has a sword in his left hand for those who will abide in their iniquities. God grant to us grace now to yield to the sweet reasoning of his love, and to...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
The word that Isaiah the son of Amos saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem. And it shall come to pass in the last days, that the mountain of the LORD’S house shall be established in the top of the mountains, and shall be exalted above the hills; and all nations shall flow unto it. What grand hopes are kindled in our bosoms by words like these. The...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And many people shall go and say, Come ye, and let us go up to the mountain of the LORD, to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths: for out of Zion shall go forth the law, and the word of the LORD from Jerusalem. In these happy days which have, in a measure, begun, but which in their fullness...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And he shall judge among the nations, and shall rebuke many people: and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks: nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more. They shall not save their weapons for future use, or believe in the theory that the best way to preserve...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
O house of Jacob, come ye, and let us walk in the light of the LORD. The Jew shall come. Long rejecting the Messiah, yet shall he with the Gentile, and walk in the light of Jehovah. Now the theme changes. We are led to see why it is that a happy state of things does not obtain at this moment, and did not obtain in the land of Judah. Sin — sin is...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Therefore thou hast forsaken thy people the house of Jacob, because they be replenished from the east, and are soothsayers like the Philistines, and they please themselves in the children of strangers. The nations then had their soothsayers and fortune-tellers, and the people of God ought not so to have degraded themselves, but they did, and...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Therefore thou hast forsaken thy people the house of Jacob, because they be replenished from the east, and are soothsayers like the Philistines, and they please themselves in the children of strangers. It was God’s command that they should keep themselves separate, and worship him only; but, in the reign of this man Ahaz, they began to practice...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Their land also is full of silver and gold, neither is there any end of their treasures; their land is also full of horses, neither is there any end of their chariots: Their land also is full of idols; How these things generally go together. If a nation prospers and gets wealthy, it is so apt to seek for itself external worship of a gaudy kind. It...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Their land also is full of silver and gold, neither is there any end of their treasures; their land is also full of horses, neither is there any end of their chariots: Their land also is full of idols; they worship the work of their own hands, that which their own fingers have made: And the mean man boweth down, and the great man humbleth himself:...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
They worship the work of their own hands, that which their own fingers have made: And the mean man boweth down, and the great man humbleth himself: therefore forgive them not. Mark the indignant spirit of the prophet, as if he had been an Elias, or had the mind of a John Knox of later days. It seemed as if he could not ask God to forgive such a...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Enter into the rock, and hide thee in the dust, for fear of the LORD, and for the glory of his majesty. The lofty looks of man shall be humbled, and the haughtiness of men shall be bowed down, and the LORD alone shall be exalted in that day. For the day of the LORD of hosts shall be upon every one that is proud and lofty, and upon every one that...