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Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For I will tread them in mine anger, and trample them in my fury; and their blood shall be sprinkled upon my garments, and I will stain all my raiment. For the day of vengeance is in mine heart, and the year of my redeemed is come. It was the day of vengeance on the enemies of God, vengeance on sin and death, and hell; and it was the year of...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And I looked, and there was none to help; and I wondered that there was none to uphold: therefore mine own arm brought salvation unto me; and my fury, it upheld me. And I will tread down the people in mine anger, and ‘make them drunk in my fury, and I will bring down their strength to the earth. Dear friends, I will not go into a full explanation...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I will mention the lovingkindnesses of the Lord, Are you, dear friends, mentioning the lovingkindnesses of the Lord; or are you silent about them? Learn a lesson from the prophet Isaiah. Talk about what God has done for you, and for his people in all time: “I will mention the lovingkindnesses of the Lord.” Let this be the resolve of every one of...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I will mention the lovingkindnesses of the LORD, and the praises of the LORD, according to all that the LORD hath bestowed on us, and the great goodness toward the house of Israel, which he hath bestowed on them according to his mercies, and according to the multitude of his lovingkindnesses. It is well to talk of God’s love and God’s mercy, for,...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For he said, In the old time, when God called his people out of Egypt, he said this. Isa_63:8. Surely they are my people, children that will not lie: Or, children that will not act deceitfully; or, will not deal falsely. Isa_63:8. So he was their Saviour. He thought well of them. He treated them as though they were trustworthy. He took them into...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For he said, Surely they are my people, children that will not lie: so he was their Saviour. He thought well of them, he said, “They will be true to me.” He loved them; he chose them; he put them in a place of trust and honour; he entered into fellowship and sympathy with them.
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.
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,...
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.
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...
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.
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...
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.”
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 have possessed it but a little while: our adversaries have trodden down thy sanctuary. We are thine: thou never barest rule over them; they were not called by thy name....
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Have possessed it but a little while: our adversaries have trodden down thy sanctuary. We are thine: thou never barest rule over them; they were no called by thy name. “Thou didst give us the land by an everlasting covenant; but we have had it only a little while. Lo, the enemy has come in, and driven thine Israel away from her heritage! Can it be...