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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...
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?
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.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
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. And there shall dwell is Judah itself, and in all the cities thereof together, husbandmen, and they that...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
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. And there shall dwell in Judah itself, and in all the cities thereof together, husbandmen, and they that...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And there shall dwell in Judah itself, and in all the cities thereof together, husbandmen, and they that go forth with flocks. For I have satiated the weary soul, and I have replenished every sorrowful soul. Upon this I awaked, and beheld; and my sleep was sweet unto me. He that can sleep and dream as Jeremiah did, may well say that his sleep was...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Upon this I awaked, and beheld; and my sleep was sweet unto me. Well might it be. Poor Jeremiah, who so often wept over the woes of Israel, was the very man to be refreshed when he heard from God that he would visit his people in mercy, and bring them back to their own land. Happy dreamer, who dreams such a blessed dream as this, a dream that came...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Upon this I awaked, and beheld; and my sleep was sweet unto me. Jeremiah woke up with a pleasant impression of his vision upon him, and well he might, for was there ever a more blessed one than that of which we have just read?
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Behold, the days come saith the LORD, that I will sow the house of Israel and the house of Judah with the seed of man, and with the seed of beast. And it shall come to pass, that like as I have watched over them, to pluck up, and to break down, and to throw down, and to destroy, and to afflict; so will I watch over them, to build, and to plant,...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will sow the house of Israel and the house of Judah with the seed of man, and with the seed of beast. And it shall come to pass, that like as I have watched over them, to pluck up, and to break down, and to throw down, and to destroy, and to afflict; so will I watch over them, to build, and to plant,...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, that I will sow the house of Israel and the house of Judah with the seed of man, and with the seed of beast. And it shall come to pass, that like as I have watched over them, to pluck up, and to break down, and to throw down, and to destroy, and to afflict; so will I watch over them, to build, and replant,...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
In those days they shall say no more, The fathers have eaten a sour grape, and the children’s teeth are set on edge. But every one shall die for his own iniquity: every man that eateth the sour grape, his teeth shall be set on edge. We live under a personal dispensation, there is no such thing as hereditary godliness or salvation by proxy. Every...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
In these days they shall say no more, The fathers have eaten a sour grape, and the children’s teeth are set on edge. But every one shall die for his own iniquity: every man that eateth the sour grape, his teeth shall be set on edge. God was going to deal with the Israelites individually, personally; and that is how he will deal with us.