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Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
The vision of Isaiah the son of Amos, which he saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah. Hear, O heavens, and give ear, O earth: for the LORD hath spoken, I have nourished and brought up children, and they have rebelled against me. The good and gracious God, having been treated...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
The vision of Isaiah the son of Amoz, which he saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah. Hear, O heavens, and give ear, O earth: for the LORD hath spoken, I have nourished and brought up children, and they have rebelled against me. “If they were simply my subjects, I could bear their...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
The vision of Isaiah the son of Amoz, which he saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah. During the time in which Isaiah prophesied, the worship of God was, upon the whole, maintained in Judah; yet, prosperous as the times appeared to be, there was visible to the eye of the Lord much...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
The vision of Isaiah the son of Amos, which he saw— Prophets were called seers, they saw what they were called to say; and every true preacher of Christ must first be a seer of Christ. He must see, that is, realize for himself; and then he must tell to others what he has seen. This Book is about “the vision of Isaiah the son of Amoz, which he saw
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Concerning Judah and Jerusalem in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah. Hear, O heavens, and give ear, O earth: for the Lord hath spoken, I have nourished and brought up children, and they have rebelled against me. It is an appeal of God to inanimate creation to bear witness to the ingratitude that he had received, as if...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Hear, O heavens, and give ear, O earth: for the LORD hath spoken, I have nourished and brought up children, and they have rebelled against me. The ox knoweth his owner, and the ass his master’s crib: but Israel doth not know, my people doth not consider. God’s own people were worse than the brutes that perish; they had no gratitude towards their...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Hear, O heavens, and give ear, O earth: for the Lord hath spoken, I have nourished and brought up children, and they have rebelled against me. The ox knoweth his owner, and the ass his master’s crib: but Israel doth not know, my people doth not consider. Heaven and earth might well be called to witness such strange ingratitude as this of which the...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
The ox knoweth his owner, and the ass his master’s crib: but Israel doth not know, my people doth not consider. Ah sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, a seed of evildoers, children that are corrupters: they have forsaken the LORD, they have provoked the Holy One of Israel unto anger, they are gone away backward. More brutish than the...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
The ox knoweth his owner, and the ass his master’s crib: but Israel doth not know, my people doth not consider. See how the Lord still owns the children of Israel as his people, though he contrasts their conduct with the behavior of the ox and the ass. So we see that, however far God’s people may have gone into sin, they are his people still, and...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
The ox knoweth his owner, and the ass his master’s crib: but Israel doth not know, my people doth not consider. Men are more brutish than the beasts that perish. The lower animals, as men contemptuously call them, acknowledge the hand that feeds them; but men receive the bounty of God through long years, and yet live as if there were no God at...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Ah sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, a seed of evildoers, children that are corrupters: What a terrible picture! A nation burdened with iniquity, as full of sin as their fathers were, and their offspring growing up like themselves. By hereditary transmission they have received a predisposition to evil that cannot be taken out of the...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Ah sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, a seed of evildoers, children that are corrupters: they have forsaken the LORD, they have provoked the Holy One of Israel unto anger, they are gone away backward. If I am now addressing any who have backslidden from God, let them take these words of his to heart, he observes how you have forsaken...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Ah sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, a seed of evildoers, children that are corrupters: they have forsaken the LORD, they have provoked the Holy One of Israel unto anger, they are gone away backward. Thus the prophet spoke to the people of his day, and we may say much the same to the people of our own time. The professing church of God...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Ah sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, a seed of evildoers, children that are corrupters: they have forsaken the Lord, they have provoked the Holy One of Israel unto anger, they are gone away backward. What a terrible indictment, and every word of it was true!
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Why should ye be stricken any more? ye will revolt more and more: the whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint. It was of no use chastising these people. They only sinned the worse for all the afflictions that were sent, and when the fire of affliction doth not melt the iron heart, what can do it? Why waste the fuel upon them? Ye will revolt...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Why should ye be stricken anymore? ye will revolt more and more: the whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint. From the sole of the foot even unto the head there is no soundness in it; but wounds, and bruises, and putrefying sores: they have not been closed, neither bound up, neither mollified with ointment. “You are already in this terrible...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Why should ye be stricken any more? ye will revolt more and more: the whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint. One of God’s ways of bringing people to himself is by chastisement sad affliction. He had tried that method upon Judah; he had used his rod so long that, at last, he exclaimed, “Why should ye be stricken any more?” What is the good...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Why should ye be stricken any more? What is the use of chastisement to such people? It is supposed that punishment is always healthful, and that we grow the better for it; but God says, “Why should ye be stricken any more?”
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Ye will revolt more and more: the whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint. From the sole of the foot even unto the head there is no soundness in it; but wounds, and bruises, and putrifying sores: they have not been closed, neither bound up, neither mollified with ointment. The nation had been so beaten that it was covered all over with...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Why should ye be stricken any more? ye will revolt more and more: the whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint. From the sole of the foot even unto the head there is no soundness in it; but wounds, and bruises, and putrifying sores: they have not been closed, neither bound up, neither mollified with ointment. Your country is desolate, your...