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Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Every founder is confounded by the graven image: for his molten image is falsehood, and there is no breath in them. They are vanity, and the work of errors: in the time of their visitation they shall perish. The next verse brings out very vividly the contrast between these false gods and the one living and true God: —
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
The portion of Jacob is not like them: for he is the former of all things; and Israel is the rod of his inheritance: The LORD of hosts is his name. What a blessed name that is for God: “The portion of Jacob”! And the other side of the truth is equally blessed: “Israel is the rod of his inheritance.” God belongs to his people, and they belong to...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Gather up thy wares out of the land, O inhabitant of the fortress. For thus saith the LORD, Behold, I will sling out the inhabitants of the land at this once, and will distress them, that they may find it so. They had fled to their fortresses for shelter, for the Babylonians were coming up against them; but no hope of deliverance was held out to...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Woe is me for my hurt! My wound is grievous: but I said, Truly this is a grief, and I must bear it. Ah, child of God, you also must learn to say that! There are some trials and troubles, which come upon you, against which you may not contend, but you must say, “Truly this is a grief, and I must bear it.”
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
My tabernacle is spoiled, and all my cords are broken: my children are gone forth of me, and they are not: there is none to stretch forth my tent any more, and to set up my curtains. Alas, poor Israel! she was like a tent removed, with none to set her up again. There are some churches, in the present day, that are in this sad condition; the...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For the pastors are become brutish, and have not sought the Lord: therefore they shall not prosper, and all their flocks shall be scattered. Behold, the noise of the bruit is come, — “Bruit” is an old Norman word; one wonders how it got in here. It might be rendered, “The noise of the tumult is come,” —
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And a great commotion out of the north country, to make the cities of Judah desolate, and a den of dragons. O LORD, I know that the way of man is not in himself: it is not in man that walketh to direct his steps. O LORD, correct me, but with judgment; not in thine anger, lest thou bring me to nothing. What a suitable prayer this is for a sick man,...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Pour out thy fury upon the heathen that know thee not, and upon the families that call not on thy name: for they have eaten up Jacob, and devoured him, and consumed him, and have made his habitation desolate. So he asks God, instead of smiting his own children, to smite his enemies, and knowing what we do about the Babylonians, we do not wonder...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
The word of the LORD that came to Jeremiah concerning the dearth. There had been no rain, so the crops had failed, and there was a famine in the land. Jeremiah describes that famine in striking poetic imagery.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Judah mourneth, and the gates thereof languish; they are black unto the ground; and the cry of Jerusalem is gone up. And their nobles have sent their little ones to the waters: they came to the pits, and found no water; they returned with their vessels empty; they were ashamed and confounded, and covered their heads. Because the ground is chapt,...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
O Lord, though our iniquities testify against us, do thou it for thy name’s sake: “Thou canst not do it because of any merit of ours.”
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For our backslidings are many; we have sinned against thee. O the hope of Israel, the saviour thereof in time of trouble, why shouldest thou be as a stranger in the land and as a wayfaring man that turneth aside to tarry for a night? Why shouldest thou be as a man astonished, as a mighty man that cannot save? yet thou O LORD, art in the midst of...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Thus saith the Lord unto this people, Thus have they loved to wander, they have not refrained their feet, therefore the LORD doth not accept them; he will now remember their iniquity, and visit their sins. Then said the LORD unto me, Pray not for this people for their good. “You may pray, if you like to do so, for a plague to come upon them as a...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
When they fast, I will not hear their cry; and when they offer burnt offering and an oblation, I will not accept them: but I will consume them by the sword, and by the famine, and by the pestilence. After being long provoked, God at last determines that he will punish the rebellious nation, and he seems, as it were, to put Jeremiah on one side,...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Then said I, Ah, Lord GOD! behold, the prophets say unto them, Ye shalt not see the sword, neither shall ye have famine; but I will give you assured peace in this place. He says, “Lord, have pity on the people, for they are misled by their prophets. Peradventure, if these false prophets had not thus deceived them, and puffed them up, they would...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Then the LORD said unto me, The prophets prophesy lies in my name: I sent them not, neither have I commanded them, neither spake unto them: they prophesy unto you a false vision and divination, and a thing of nought, and the deceit of their heart. Therefore thus saith the Lord concerned the prophets that prophesy in my name, and I sent them not,...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And the people to whom they prophesy shall be cast out in the streets of Jerusalem because of the famine and the sword; and they shall have none to bury them, them, their wives, nor their sons, nor their daughters: for I will pour their wickedness upon them. That seems to be a hard answer to Jeremiah’s pleading; what is the prophet to do now? God...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Therefore thou shalt say this word unto them; Let mine eyes run down with tears night and day, and let them not cease: for the virgin daughter of my people is broken with a great breach, with a very grievous blow. If I go forth into the field, then behold! the slain with the sword! and if I enter into the city, then behold them that are sick with...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Hast thou utterly rejected Judah? hath thy soul loathed Zion? Why hast thou smitten us, and there is no healing for us? we looked for peace, and there is no good; and for the time of healing, and behold trouble! That is not exactly praying, but it is very like it. Jeremiah is asking the Lord whether he can really have cast off his people.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
We acknowledge, O Lord, our wickedness, and the iniquity of our fathers: for we have sinned against thee. He has advanced a step farther now, to the confession of sin. If that is not really prayer, it always goes with it. It is the background of prayer, so we shall soon have some other touches in the picture.