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Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
The LORD hath appeared of old unto me, Yea, I have loved thee with an everlasting love: therefore with lovingkindness have I drawn thee. Again I will build thee, and thou shalt be built, Jerusalem was all broken down, her houses were vacant, and her palaces were in ruins, but God’s promise to her was, “ Again I will build thee, and thou shalt be...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
The LORD hath appeared of old unto me, saying, Yea, I have loved thee with an everlasting love: therefore with lovingkindness have I drawn thee. There is the source of everything that is good and gracious: “everlasting love.” When God has once set that love upon his people, anything and everything that is for their good may come out of it; all...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
O virgin of Israel: thou shalt again be adorned with thy tablets, and shalt go forth in the dances of them that make merry. God can take away his people’s sorrow, and fill them with exultant joy. Their flying feet shall follow the flying music, and they shall be exceeding glad. May the Lord make his people joyful now in his house of prayer!
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Again I will build thee, and thou shalt be built, O virgin of Israel: thou shalt again be adorned with thy tabrets, and shalt go forth in the dances of them that make merry. Thou shalt yet plant vines upon the mountains of Samaria: the planters shall plant, and shall eat them as common things. God has kind purposes of love towards his ancient...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Again I will build thee, and thou shalt be built, Whatever God does is done effectually; there is never any failure in his work. Jer_31:4. O virgin of Israel: thou shalt again be adorned with thy tablets, and shalt go forth in the dances of them that make merry. They had wept and mourned, but they were to dance; they had been very sad and...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Thou shalt yet plant vines upon the mountains of Samaria: the planters shall plant, and shall eat them as common things. God’s people shall get to work again; and they shall have the fruit of their toil, and shall rejoice before God because they do not labour in vain nor spend their strength for nought.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Thou shalt yet plant vines upon the mountain of Samaria: the planters shall plant, and shall eat them as common things. God makes the luxuries of grace to be common things to his people. Fare that once seemed so rare as to be enjoyed only on high days and holidays shall become everyday meat to his people when their Lord reveals himself to them.
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...
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...
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...
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...
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....
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”-
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...