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John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Surely after that I was turned I repented,.... Ephraim's prayer was answered; as he prayed he might be turned, he was; and when he was turned, then he repented, not only of sin in general, but of such sins as he had been particularly guilty of; not only of the grosser actions of life, but of inward sins, secret lusts and corruptions; even of sins...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Surety after that I was turned, I repented; and after that I was instructed, 1 smote upon my thigh: I was ashamed, yea, even confounded, because I did bear the reproach of my youth. Are there any here recollecting the past with terror, and lamenting before God because of their sins? Then hear what God says. He seems to echo the voice of Ephraim....
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And after that I was instructed, I smote upon my thigh: In very grief of heart, as if I could not smite myself enough for having sinned. Jer_31:19. I was ashamed, yea, even confounded, because I did bear the reproach of my youth. Now when a man talks like that, how does God speak?
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Surely after that I was turned, I repented; and after that I was instructed, I smote upon my thigh: I was ashamed yea, even confounded because I did bear the reproach of my youth. ‘When a man has “sown his wild oats,” and God in mercy helps him to come back from such a dreadful field as that, he recollects what he has been, and he is ashamed of...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
[Is] Ephraim my dear son?.... Questions put in this form, in the Hebrew language, usually more vehemently deny; and then the sense must be, Ephraim is not my dear son: and agreeably to this all the following clauses must be interpreted; which seems quite contrary to the scope and design of the context: wherefore it seems better to render the words...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Is Ephraim my dear son? is he a pleasant child? You might expect the answer to be, “No, he has lost the rights of childhood; he has been unpleasant and provoking to God, “ yet God does not give such an answer as that to his own questions, but he says:- Jer_31:20. For since I spake against him, I do earnestly remember him still; Notwithstanding...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Is Ephraim my dear son? is he a pleasant child? for since I spake against him, I do earnestly remember him still: “Not only do I remember him, but ‘I do earnestly remember him still.’ “ Jer_31:20. Therefore my bowels are troubled for him; “I cannot bear to see his misery.” Jer_31:20. I will surely have mercy upon him, saith the LORD. Oh, what...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Is Ephraim my dear son? is he a pleasant child? Or we may render it, “Is this Ephraim my dear son? Is this my pleasant child?” He is all that now that he begins to hate his sin. Jer_31:20. For since I spake against him, I do earnestly remember him still: Think of this, you who forget your God, ye backsliders, wanderers from your Father’s house.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Therefore my bowels are troubled for him; I will surely have mercy upon him, saith the LORD. Set thee up waymarks, make thee high heaps: Raise cairns along the road at various point to let other travelers know the way in which they should go.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Is Ephraim my dear son? is he a pleasant child? for since I spake against him, I do earnestly remember him still: therefore my bowels are troubled for him; I will surely have mercy upon him, saith the Lord. Here we seem to look into the very heart of God; and he is represented to us as though he had contending passions within him. He speaketh...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Set thee up way marks, make thee high heaps,.... Of stones, raised up as pillars, or like pyramids; or upright, as palm trees, which signification the word (z) has; to be marks and signs, to know the way again upon a return. The Targum is, "O congregation of Israel, remember the right works of thy fathers; pour out supplications; in bitterness set...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Set thee up waymarks, make thee high heaps: set thine heart toward the highway, even the way which thou wentest: turn again, O virgin of Israel, turn again to these thy cities. In crossing the desert, travelers raise little cairns of stone that they may be directed on a future occasion, across that pathless sea of sand; and so God bids them set up...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Set thee up waymarks, make thee high heaps: set thine heart toward the highway, even the way which thou wentest: turn again, O virgin of Israel, turn again to these thy cities. How long wilt thou go about, O thou backsliding daughter? for the LORD hath created a new thing in the earth, A woman shall compass a man. Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Set thine heart toward the highway, even the way which thou wentest: turn again, O virgin of Israel, turn again to these thy cities. How long wilt thou go about, O thou backsliding daughter? for the LORD hath created a new thing in the earth, A woman shall compass a man. Whereas the enemy had compassed Jerusalem round about, now Jerusalem was to...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Set thee up waymarks, make thee high heaps: set thine heart toward the highway, even the way which thou wentest: turn again, O virgin of Israel, turn again to these thy cities. How long wilt thou go about, O thou backsliding daughter? How long will you be seeking comfort where you cannot find it, and pleasure where nothing but misery can come?
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
How long wilt thou go about, O thou backsliding daughter?.... From place to, place, from country to country, from one kingdom to another, as the Jews do to this day; and not return unto the Lord, and David their king, and to their own country? Or, "how long wilt thou be foolish" (a)? in backsliding from the Lord; in slighting the written word;...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
How long wilt thou go about, O thou backsliding daughter? God still asks in pity, “how long will you seek here and there for comfort?” You will never find it till you come back to your God. Emptiness is written upon everything till the heart comes to its Saviour and Lord.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For the Lord hath created a new thing in the earth, A woman shall compass a man. Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; As yet they shall use this speech in the land of Judah and in the cities thereof, when I shall bring again their captivity; The LORD bless thee, O habitation of justice, and mountain of holiness. Jerusalem was cursed...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For the LORD hath created a new thing in the earth, A woman shall compass a man. Here is a prophecy of the birth of Immanuel, God with us, born of a woman by the supernatural power of the Holy Ghost. Mary was indeed blessed among women, and we rejoice in that Man who was thus miraculously born to be the Saviour, Christ the Lord.
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Thus saith the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel,.... The Governor of the whole world, the Lord of armies above and below; and yet has a peculiar regard to Israel, his spiritual Israel, whose covenant God and Father he is; and is to be believed in what he after says, the fulfilment of which may be depended on: as yet they shall use this speech in...