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Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For, behold, I will send serpents, cockatrices, among you, which will not be charmed, and they shall bite you, saith the LORD. Such were the Chaldeans, crafty as serpents, full of the venom of cruelty wherever they came, there was no way of charming them as a serpent may be charmed. They came on a deadly errand, and thoroughly did they perform it.
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
When I would comfort myself against terror,.... Either naturally, by eating and drinking, the necessary and lawful means of refreshment; or spiritually, by reading the word of God, and looking over the promises in it: my heart is faint in me; at the consideration of the calamities which were coming upon his people, and which were made known to him...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
When I would comfort myself against sorrow, my heart is faint in me. Behold the voice of the cry of the daughter of my people because of them that dwell in a far country: Is not the LORD in Zion? is not her king in her? Why have they provoked me to anger with their graven images, and with strange vanities? The harvest is past, the summer is ended,...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Behold, the voice of the cry of the daughter of my people,.... This was what made his heart faint, such was his sympathy with his countrymen, his people in distress, whom he affectionately calls the daughter of his people, whose cry was loud, and whose voice he heard lamenting their case: because of them that dwell in a far country; because of the...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Behold the voice of the cry of the daughter of my people because of them that dwell in a far country: Is not the LORD in Zion? Is not her king in her? Why have they provoked me to anger with their graven images, and with strange vanities? The harvest is past, the summer is ended, and we are not saved. I will read that twentieth verse again: “The...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
The harvest is past,.... Which was in the month of Ijar, as Jarchi observes, and answers to part of April and May: the summer is ended; which was in the month Tammuz, and answers to part of June and July: and we are not saved; delivered from the siege of the Chaldeans; and harvest and summer being over, there were no hopes of the Egyptians coming...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
For the hurt of the daughter of my people am I hurt,.... These are the words, not of God, as Jerom; nor of Jerusalem, as the Targum; but of the prophet, as Kimchi observes, expressing his sympathy with the people in their affliction: and they may be rendered, "for the breach of the daughter of my people" (o), which was made when the city was...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For the hurt of the daughter of my people am I hurt; I am black; astonishment hath taken hold on me. That is the man to be God’s prophet, the man who makes the sorrows of his people-to be his own sorrows, who does not perform the duties of his office as a mere matter of profession, but enters into his service with a weeping heart, longing to be...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Is there no balm in Gilead?.... Which was famous for it; see Genesis 37:25, or rather turpentine or rosin, a gum which drops from pine trees and the like; since balm or balsam grew on this side Jordan, near Jericho and Engedi, and not beyond Jordan, in the land of Gilead; and rosin is good for healing. Some render it "treacle", but very wrongly,...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Is there no balm in Gilead; is there no physician there? No; there is none. There is balm in Christ, there is a Physician who once hung on Calvary’s cross; but there is no balm and no physician in Gilead. If there were, — Jer_8:22. Why then is not the health of the daughter of my people recovered? This exposition consisted of readings from Psalms...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Is there no balm in Gilead; is there no physician there? why then is not the health of the daughter of my people recovered? This exposition consisted of readings from Jeremiah 8; Jer_9:1.