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Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Therefore fear thou not, O my servant Jacob, saith the LORD; neither be dismayed, O Israel: for, lo, I will save thee from afar and thy seed from the land of their captivity; and Jacob shall return, and shall be in rest, and be quiet, and none shall make him afraid. What a beautiful collection of words for a troubled heart! And they are not...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For I am with thee, saith the LORD, to save thee: God may destroy the wicked, and he will, but not his people, his own beloved, His heart goes after them. “I will not make a full end of thee.” Jer_30:11. Though I make a full end of all nations whither I have scattered thee, yet will I not make a full end of thee: but I will correct thee in...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For I am with thee, saith the LORD, to save thee: though I make a full end of all nations whither I have scattered thee, yet will I not make a full end of thee: but I will correct thee in measure, and will not leave thee altogether unpunished. Look abroad, and see what God has done to Israel. This is peculiarly the time of Israel’s trouble, and...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For thus saith the LORD, Thy bruise is incurable, and thy wound is grievous. There is none to plead thy cause, that thou mayest be bound up: thou hast no healing medicines. All thy lovers have forgotten thee; they seek thee not; for I have wounded thee with the wound of an enemy, with the chastisement of a cruel one, for the multitude of thine...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For thus saith the LORD, Thy bruise is incurable, and thy wound is grievous. See here is the bass again. We have got down into the sorrowful notes all to make us sick of self and ready to receive the grace of God.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
There is none to plead thy cause, that thou mayest be bound up: thou hast no healing medicines. All thy lovers have forgotten thee: Out of sight, out of mind. They have forgotten thee. Oh! when God wounds, it, is a wound, indeed. When he breaks the heart who can comfort? If he does but speak, the earth trembles. He touches the hills, and they...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
They seek thee not; for I have wounded thee with the wound of an enemy, with the chastisement of a cruel one for the multitude of thine iniquity; because thy sins were increased. Why criest thou for thine affliction? thy sorrow is incurable for the multitude of thine iniquity: “These are dark words,” says one. If they are incurable, what more need...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Why criest thou for thine affliction? thy sorrow is incurable for the multitude of thine iniquity: because thy sins were increased, I have done these things unto thee. Therefore all they that devour thee shall be devoured; — How striking is this sentence, and what a surprise it gives us as we read it! We might have thought, after the Lord had...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Because thy sins were increased, I have done these things unto thee. Therefore Now I read this morning, and I could not help dwelling upon this “therefore.” It looks like a non sequitur, but there is a real argument, in it. Therefore, because you have now come to the worst, because you cannot help yourself, because you are ruined and undone: —
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And all thine adversaries, every one of them, shall go into captivity; and they that spoil thee shall be a spoil, and all that prey upon thee will I give for a prey. For I will restore health unto thee, and I will heal thee of thy wounds, saith the LORD; because they called thee an Outcast, saying, This is Zion, whom no man seeketh after. Did you...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
All they that devour thee shall be devoured: and all thine adversaries, every one of them, shall go into captivity; and they that spoil thee shall be a spoil, and all that prey upon thee will I give for a prey. For I will restore health unto thee, Oh! the sovereignty of divine grace! how it comes in when every hope is gone! Man’s extremity is...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And I will heal thee of thy wounds, saith the LORD; because they called thee an Outcast, saying This is Zion, whom no man seeketh after. They said, “There is no hope for that man, there in no relief for that woman. Therefore, God means to give up all relief. Nothing pleases him better than to undertake a desperate case God is great at a dead lift....
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Thus saith the LORD; Behold, I will bring again the captivity of Jacob’s tents, and have mercy on his dwelling places; and the city shall be builded upon her own heap, and the palace shall remain after the manner thereof. And out of them shall proceed thanksgiving and the voice of them that make merry: and I will multiply them, and they shall not...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Their children also shall be as aforetime, and their congregation shall be established before me, and I will punish all that oppress them. And their nobles shall be of themselves, and their governor shall proceed from the midst of them; and I will cause him to draw near, and he shall approach unto me: for who is thee that engaged his heart to...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And ye shall be my people, and I will be your God. Happy are we if we can rejoice in this precious truth.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
At the same time, saith the LORD, will I be the God of all the families of Israel, and they shall be my people. During the Israelites’ banishment to Babylon, God’s covenant with them had been as it were in abeyance, but in this promise of their restoration he brings it to the front again, and he gives a peculiarly gracious turn to it: “I will be...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
At the same time, saith the LORD, will I be the God of all the families of Israel, and they shall be my people. Thus saith the LORD, The people which were left of the sword found grace in the wilderness; even Israel, when I went to cause him to rest. The LORD hath appeared of old unto me, saying, Yea, I have loved thee with an everlasting love:...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
At the same time, faith the LORD, will I be the God of all the families of Israel, and they shall be my people. How divinely he talks, — as only God can talk These people had rejected him, yet he says, “They shall be my people,” not only some of them, but all of them: “I will be the God of all the families of Israel.” Behold the wonderful power of...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Thus saith the LORD, the people which were left of the sword found grace in the wilderness; even Israel, when I went to cause him to rest. Pharaoh tried to kill Israel; when he drew his sword, it looked as if the whole nation would be slain. But God got them away from Pharaoh into the wilderness, and there he caused them to rest. God still teas a...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Thus saith the Lord, The people which were left of the sword found grace in the wilderness; even Israel, when I went to cause him to rest. If we ever do get true rest of soul, God must cause us to rest, as David said, “He maketh me to lie down in green pastures.” The rest of the heart is a miracle of divine power.