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Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Lift up thine eyes unto the high places, and see where thou hast not been lien with. In the ways hast thou sat for them, as the Arabian in the wilderness; and thou hast polluted the land with thy whoredoms and with thy wickedness. Therefore the showers have been withholden, and there hath been no latter rain; and thou hadst a whore’s forehead,...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Wilt thou not from this time cry unto me, My father, thou art the guide of my youth? Will not you come back again? You are invited to return unto the Lord, despite your wandering, your perverseness, your abominable iniquity. Will you not remember the better days when God was the Guide of your youth? You were not always what you are now. Will you...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Will he reserve his anger for ever? will he keep it to the end? No, that he will not; there is none so slow to anger as our God, and there is none so ready to be rid of it as he is. He is a God ready to pardon, waiting to forgive, delighting in mercy. Even though the sin should be so foul that, as I read it to you, I seem almost to blush in the...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
The LORD said also unto me in the days, of Josiah the king, Hast thou seen that which backsliding Israel hath done? she is gone up upon every high mountain and under every green tree, and there hath played the harlot. Building temples to false gods on every mountain and in every grove.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
The LORD said also unto me in the days of Josiah the king, Hast thou seen that which backsliding Israel hath done? she is gone up upon every high mountain and under every green tree, and there hath played the harlot. And I said after she had done all these things. Turn thou unto me. Depth of mercy that God should bid such a polluted one return to...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And I said after she had done all these things, Turn thou unto me. But she returned not. And her treacherous sister Judah saw it. That made Judah’s sin even worse than that of Israel; she saw this great iniquity in another, and yet went and committed it herself.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
But she returned not. And her treacherous sister Judah saw it. And I saw, when for all the causes whereby backsliding Israel committed adultery I had put her away, and given her a bill of divorce; yet her treacherous sister Judah feared not, but went and played the harlot also. Some cannot be kept back from sin by the punishment of others, but...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And I saw, when for all the causes whereby backsliding Israel committed adultery I had put her away, and given her a bill of divorce; yet her treacherous sister Judah feared not, but went and played the harlot also. And it came to pass through the lightness of her whoredom, that she defiled the land, and committed adultery with stones and with...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And it came to pas through the lightness of her whoredom that she defiled the land, and committed adultery with stones and with stocks. That is to say, she gave her heart to false gods, and worshipped stones and stocks. And how it must anger the living God to see men turn away from him to worship blocks of wood and stone, instead of him and...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And yet for all this her treacherous sister Judah hath not turned unto me with her whole heart, but feignedly, saith the LORD. And the LORD said unto me, The backsliding Israel hath justified herself more than treacherous Judah. Go and proclaim these words toward the north, — What must these words be? Must they not be, “You have treated me so ill...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And for all this her treacherous sister Judah hath not turned unto me with her whole heart, but feignedly, saith the LORD. And the LORD said unto me, The backsliding Israel hath justified herself more than treacherous Judah. The one sinned openly and persevered in it. The other pretended to repent and did not, and that pretended repentance was...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And say, Return, thou backsliding Israel, saith the LORD; and I will not cause mine anger to fall upon you: for I am merciful, saith the LORD, and I will not keep anger for ever. Oh, the measureless mercy of these gracious sentences! Deep and black as the sin is, and fearful and terrible as is the description of it, how bright, how clear is the...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Go and proclaim these words towards the north, and say, Return, thou backsliding Israel, saith the LORD. And I will not cause mine anger to fall upon you: for I am merciful, saith the LORD, and I will not keep anger for ever. The offense was foul. It is such a one as stabs at the heart of man’s honour. It is an offense which a man will scarcely...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Go and proclaim these words toward the north, and say, Return, thou backsliding Israel, saith the LORD; and I will not cause mine anger to fall upon you: for I am merciful, saith the LORD, and I will not keep anger for ever. Only acknowledge thine iniquity, that thou hast transgressed against the LORD thy God, and hast scattered thy way to the...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Only acknowledge thine iniquity, that thou hast transgressed against the LORD thy God, and hast scattered thy ways to the strangers under every green tree, and ye have not obeyed my voice, saith the Lord. Confess that sad fact, acknowledge that you have thus sinned. Into the ear of God pour out the full confession of your criminality. He cannot...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Only acknowledge thine iniquity, It is all he asks thee to do. Confess that thou host done wrong. “Only acknowledge thine iniquity.” Jer_3:13. That thou halt transgressed against the Lord thy God, and hast scattered thy ways to the strangers under every green tree, and ye have not obeyed my voice, saith the LORD, It was under the trees that they...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Turn, O backsliding children, saith the LORD; for I am married unto you: and I will take you one of a city, and two of a family, and I will bring you to Zion: and I will give you pastors according to mine heart, which shall feed you with knowledge and understanding. When God once begins to pardon men, there is no end to it. He goes on to bless...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Turn, O backsliding children, saith the LORD: for I am married unto you: and I will take you one of a city, and two of a family, and I will bring you to Zion: And I will give you pastors according to mine heart, which shall feed you with knowledge and understanding. And it shall come to pass, when ye be multiplied and increased in the land, in...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And I will take you one of a city, and two of a family, and I will bring you to Zion: That is, “two of a tribe;” for the word “family” was used in a very large sense in those times, and comprehended perhaps the whole of one of the twelve tribes.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And I will give you pastors according to mine heart, which shall feed you with knowledge and understanding. The backsliders when they come back shall not be left outside the fold, but they shall have shepherds to watch over them, and they shall not be left to a lean pasture, but they shall be fed with knowledge and understanding. This is fine fare...