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John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Return, ye backsliding children,.... This is the call of the Jews to repentance in the latter day; [See comments on Jeremiah 3:14]. and I will heal your backslidings; that is, I will forgive your sins. Sins are the diseases of the soul, and the wounds made in it; and pardoning them is healing them. So the Targum, "I will forgive you when ye...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Return, ye backsliding children, and I will heal your backslidings. Behold, we come unto thee; for thou art the LORD our God. Truly in vain is salvation hoped for from the hills, and from the multitude of mountains: truly in the LORD our God is the salvation of Israel. So they come back to him, and find the salvation which they need.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Behold, we come unto thee, for thou art the LORD our God. Truly in vain is salvation hoped for from the hills, and from the multitude of mountains: We leave all false confidences. We forsake our earthly joys.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Return, ye backsliding children, and I will heal your backslidings. Oh, the wonderful mercy of God! He treats sin as a disease. It was a grand thought, that, on God’s part, that he would not so much look upon sin as being a willful deed and crime, but would look upon it as a malady of the mind and soul. “I will heal your backslidings.” And see the...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Truly in vain is salvation hoped for from the hills, and from the multitude of mountains,.... From any natural defence, by hills and mountains encompassing; or from idols worshipped on hills and mountains. So the Targum, "truly in vain we worship upon the hills, and for no profit are we gathered upon the mountains;'' and to this purpose Jarchi and...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Truly in the LORD our God is the salvation of Israel. For shame hath devoured the labour of our fathers from our youth; their flocks and their herds, their sons and their daughters. They have not profited by worshipping idols. They have suffered through it.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Truly in vain is salvation hoped for from the hills, and from the multitude of mountains: See, they were trying to get it from their high places. They lifted up their voices to their gods, but they only learnt to mourn and weep. “In vain is salvation hoped for from the hills and from the multitude of mountains.”
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Truly in the LORD our God is the salvation of Israel. For shame hath devoured the labour of our fathers from our youth; their flocks and their herds, their sons and their daughters. We lie down in our shame, and our confusion covereth us: for we have sinned against the LORD our God, we and our fathers, from our youth even unto this day, and have...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
For shame hath devoured the labour of our fathers from our youth,.... That is, sin, which is the cause of shame, and of which sinners ought to be ashamed, and will be sooner or later; so the Targum renders it, "the confusion of sins"; and the Jewish writers generally interpret it of idolatry, and of the idol Baal, as Kimchi and others, called...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
We lie down in our shame, and our confusion covereth us,.... As persons overwhelmed with a sense of sin, and so pressed with the guilt of it on their consciences, that they can neither stand up, nor look up, but throw themselves on the ground, and cover their faces, being ashamed of what they have done: for we have sinned against the Lord our God;...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
We lie down in our shame, and our confusion covereth us: for we have sinned against the LORD our God, we and our fathers, from our youth even unto this day, and have not obeyed the voice of the LORD our God. There you see the repentance which the Lord commanded at his people’s hands, and wherever there is such a repentance as that there are sure...