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Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Enflaming yourselves with idols under every green tree, slaying the children in the valleys under the clifts of the rocks? The Lord had said that they should offer sacrifice only on one altar at Jerusalem, and this to him alone, but they had set up altars under all the ancient oaks to worship all sorts of gods. In addition to this, they had gone...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Among the smooth stones of the stream is thy portion; they, they are thy lot: even to them hast thou poured a drink offering, thou hast offered a meat offering. Should I receive comfort in these? They had set up the smooth stones which they had found in the brook, and made them into altars — nay made gods of them, for when man wants to make a god,...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Upon a lofty and high mountain hast thou set thy bed: even thither wentest thou up to offer sacrifice. Behind the doors also and the posts hast thou set up thy remembrance: Where they ought to have put up texts of Scripture and the remembrance of God’s law, they had set up memorials of their false gods everywhere, for when men become superstitious...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For thou hast discovered thyself to another than me, and art gone up; thou hast enlarged thy bed, and made thee a covenant with them; thou lovedst their bed where thou sawest it. And thou wentest to the king with ointment, and didst increase thy perfumes and didst send thy messengers far off, and didst debase thyself even unto hell. When they were...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Thou art wearied in the greatness of thy way; They did so much, and they were so superstitious, that they even wearied themselves with it. Isa_57:10. Yet saidst thou not, There is no hope: thou hast found the life of thine hand; therefore thou wast not grieved. So long as they did but live they did not think that there was any hope of anything...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Thou art wearied in the greatness of thy way; “Thou art wearied out with thine own way. Thou hast been so zealous in thy rebellion against God that thou hast actually fatigued thyself in the pursuit of evil.” That is a true description of those who have worn themselves out in the ways of sin. Isa_57:10. Yet saidst thou not, There is no hope: thou...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And of whom hast thou been afraid or feared, that thou hast lied, and hast not remembered me, nor laid it to thy heart? have not I held my peace even of old, and thou fearest me not? This is the old trouble — that because God does not smite down sinners there and then they take liberties with him. They do not know that his patience — his...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And of whom hast thou been afraid or feared, that thou hast lied, and hast not remembered me,— “Me, thy Maker, thy Friend, to whom thou must own thy very soul, unless that soul shall go down into the pit, ‘Thou hast not remembered me,’” — Isa_57:11. Nor laid it to thy heart? have not I held my peace even of old, and thou fearest me not? When God...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I will declare thy righteousness, and thy works; for they shall not profit thee. They said, “Why, we are very righteous. Have not we got a god in every corner? As for our works, we have plenty of them. Have not we temples built everywhere, and altars set up on every hill and in every valley?” “Yes,” says God, “such is your righteousness. They...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I will declare thy righteousness, and thy works; for they shall not profit thee. If God once takes the self-righteous man’s righteousness, and explains what it really is, he will soon reveal to its owner that it is a mere delusion and sham, that will not profit him at all.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
When thou criest, let thy companies deliver thee; but the wind shall carry them all away; vanity shall take them: but he that putteth his trust in me shall possess the land, and shall inherit my holy mountain; Oh! what a sarcasm! but how just. You that love not God, when you are in trouble, let your sins deliver you if they can. Let your pleasures...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
When thou criest, let thy companies deliver thee; “When sickness, and depression of spirit, and death itself, shall come to you, and you begin to dread what is to follow, and cry to those who comforted you in your time of health, what will they be able to do for you?” Isa_57:13. But the wind shall carry them all away; vanity shall take them: but...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And shall say, Cast ye up, cast ye up, prepare the way, take up the stumblingblock out of the way of my people. For thus saith the high and lofty One that inhabiteth eternity, whose name is Holy; I dwell in the high and holy place, with him also that is of a contrite and humble spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble, and to revive the heart of...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And shall say, Cast ye up, cast ye up, prepare the way, take up the stumblingblock out of the way of my people. For thus saith the high and lofty One that inhabiteth eternity, whose name is Holy; I dwell in the high and holy place, with him also that is of a contrite and humble spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble, and to revive the heart of...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For I will not contend for ever, neither will I be always wroth: God does not like being angry, and though sin provokes him, yet he feels not at ease when he is wrathful. Isa_57:16. For the spirit should fail before me, and the souls which I have made. It would destroy them. Man could not bear God’s anger ever more.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For I will not contend for ever, neither will I be always wroth: for the spirit should fail before me, and the souls which I have made. See the tender meaning of God’s message in this verse. He has been encouraging the guilty one, and making him feel the enormity of his ounces; and then he says, “I will not do that any more, lest I should crush...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For the iniquity of his covetousness was I wroth, and smote him: I hid me, and was wroth, and he went on frowardly in the way of his heart. I have seen his ways, and will heal him: I will lead him also, and restore comforts unto him and to his mourners. I create the fruit of the lips; God teaches men how to speak words of penitence, and faith, and...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For the iniquity of his covetousness was I wroth, and smote him: I hid me, and was wroth, and he went on frowardly in the way of his heart. Here God shows that his chastening does not always produce a good result; for, sometimes, when men are tried on account of sin, they grow worse and worse: “I hid me, and was wroth, and he went on frowardly in...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I have seen his ways,— “I have seen that he goes from bad to worse when I afflict him. Now I will try another plan. ‘I have seen his ways,’”
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And will heal him: I will lead him also, and restore comforts unto him and to his mourners. I create the fruit of the lips; Peace, peace to him that is far off, and to him that is near, saith the LORD; and I will heal him. It is heart-melting to see the tenderness of God. “I will not further smite him, lest his spirit should fail before me. I will...