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Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For there shall be a day, that the watchmen upon the mount Ephraim shall cry, Arise ye, and let us go up to Zion unto the LORD our God. The men of Ephraim did not go up to Zion to worship, they forsook the one altar at Jerusalem; but the day will come when they will turn again to the Lord. Watchmen have to be on the look-out for enemies, but the...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For there shall be a day, that the watchmen upon the mount Ephraim shall cry, Arise ye, and let us go up to Zion unto the LORD our God. For thus saith the LORD; Sing with gladness for Jacob, and shout among the chief of the nations: publish ye, praise ye, and say, O LORD, save thy people, the remnant of Israel. Behold, I will bring them from the...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For there shall be a day, that the watchmen upon the mount Ephraim shall cry, Arise ye, and let us go up to Zion unto the LORD our God. For many a year Israel had gone to Bethel to worship the calves, or stayed at home to adore the shrine of Ashtaroth; now they were to go to Zion to serve Jehovah. See what the grace of God can do even for...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
For thus saith the Lord, sing with gladness for Jacob,.... For the restoration of Jacob, or the conversion of the Jews; which will be matter of joy to the Christians among the Gentiles; who seem to be here called upon to express their joy on that occasion, as they will; for it will be to them as life from the dead, Romans 11:15. Kimchi thinks...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For thus saith the LORD Sing with gladness for Jacob, and shout among the chief of the nation, publish ye, praise ye, and say, O LORD, save thy people the remnant of Israel. Behold, I will bring them- Notice the prayer and the answer. The prayer is put into our mouths, and before we hardly have time to utter it, the answer comes: “ O Lord, save...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For thus saith the LORD; Sing with gladness, for Jacob, and shout among the chief of the nations: publish ye, praise ye, and say, O LORD, save thy people, the remnant of Israel. Behold, I will bring them from the north country, and gather them from the coasts of the earth, and with them the blind and the lame, the woman with child and her that...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Behold, I will bring them from the north country,.... As from Babylon, at the end of the seventy years' captivity, which lay north of Judea; so, in the latter day, from those northern countries, as ours, where they now are in great numbers: and gather them from the coasts of the earth; or "sides" of it; from all the parts of the world where they...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
From the north country, and gather them from the coasts of the earth, and with them the blind and the lame, How can they come? Will they help one another? God himself will be eyes to the blind and feet to the lame. Jer_31:8. The woman with child and her that travaileth with child together: a great company shall return thither. They were not fit...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
They shall come with weeping,.... For joy, as Kimchi and Ben Melech observe; of which there are instances, Genesis 29:11; so the Jews will come to Christ, and to the Gospel church, as well as into their own land, with joy that they have found the Messiah, and are brought under his government, and into the enjoyment of the privileges of the Gospel,...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
They shall come with weeping,- Never mind the weeping so long as they do but come, and remember that there is no true faith without the tear of repentance in its eye: “ They shall come with weeping,”- Jer_31:9. And with supplications will I lead them: The way of prayer is the way home to God. Jer_31:9. I will cause them to walk by the rivers of...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For I am a father to Israel, and Ephraim is my firstborn. Hear the word of the LORD, O ye nations, and declare it in the isles afar off and say, He that scattered Israel will gather him, and keep him, as a shepherd doth his flock. For the LORD hath redeemed Jacob. The secret of every other blessing is redemption. If God has redeemed he will save,...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
They shall come with weeping, and with supplications will I lead them: Weeping and prayer go well together. There is no prayer like a wet prayer saturated with the tears of repentance. Jer_31:9. I will cause them to walk by the rivers of water in a straight way, — Hear this, ye mourners. God will supply your need with rivers of waters, and he will...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Hear the word of the Lord, O ye nations,.... The Gentiles: who are called upon to hear the word of the Gospel; the word of peace, reconciliation, and salvation by Christ, sent among them by him, for the calling and conversion of them, that they might believe in him, and profess his name: and declare [it] in the isles afar off; having heard,...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Hear the word of the LORD, O ye nations, and declare it in the isles afar off, and say, He that scattered Israel will gather him, and keep him, as a shepherd doth his flock. For the LORD hath redeemed Jacob, and ransomed him from the hand of him that was stronger than he. Redemption lies at the bottom of every favor that we receive from God. He...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Hear the word of the LORD, O ye nations, and declare it in the isles afar off and say He that scattered Israel will gather him and keep him as a shepherd doth his flock. For the LORD hath redeemed Jacob and ransomed him from the hand of him that was stronger than he. They were the Lord’s chosen people even when they were in captivity in Babylon....
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
For the Lord hath redeemed Jacob,.... Not the patriarch Jacob singly and personally, though he no doubt was a redeemed one; nor his carnal posterity, at least not all of them, only a remnant among them, and especially not them only; but the Gentiles also, even all the elect of God, his church and people, of whatsoever nation, which frequently go...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And ransomed him from the hand of him that was stronger than he. Therefore they shall come”- If they are redeemed, “they shall come.” Christ did not die in vain; the redemption that he wrought must be effectual; “ therefore they shall come”-
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Therefore they shall come and sing in the height of Zion,.... The Targum is, "in the mountain of the house of the sanctuary, which is built on Zion;'' but though there be an allusion to the temple built on it, and which may be called the height of it; yet the church of Christ in Gospel times is meant; the city built on a hill, where the saints,...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And sing in the height of Zion, and shall flow together to the goodness of the LORD, for wheat, and for wine, and for oil, and for the young of the flock and of the herd: These are all temporal mercies, and it is a great blessing to see God’s goodness in them. If God blesses common mercies, they are blessings indeed; but without his blessing they...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And they shall not sorrow any more at all. Then shall the virgin rejoice in the dance, both young men and old together: for I will turn their mourning into joy, and will comfort them, and make them rejoice from their sorrow. And I will satiate the soul of the priests with fatness, God will give the spiritual leaders of his people enough and more...