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Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Truly in vain is salvation hoped for from the hills, and from the multitude of mountains: See, they were trying to get it from their high places. They lifted up their voices to their gods, but they only learnt to mourn and weep. “In vain is salvation hoped for from the hills and from the multitude of mountains.”
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Truly in the LORD our God is the salvation of Israel. For shame hath devoured the labour of our fathers from our youth; their flocks and their herds, their sons and their daughters. We lie down in our shame, and our confusion covereth us: for we have sinned against the LORD our God, we and our fathers, from our youth even unto this day, and have...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
We lie down in our shame, and our confusion covereth us: for we have sinned against the LORD our God, we and our fathers, from our youth even unto this day, and have not obeyed the voice of the LORD our God. There you see the repentance which the Lord commanded at his people’s hands, and wherever there is such a repentance as that there are sure...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
If thou wilt return, O Israel, saith the LORD, return unto me: and if thou wilt put away thine abominations out of my sight, then shalt thou not remove. And thou shalt swear, The LORD liveth, in truth, in judgment, and in righteousness; and the nations shall bless themselves in him, and in him shall they glory. So he sets before them life and...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For thus saith the LORD to the men of Judah and Jerusalem, Break up your fallow ground, and sow not among thorns. Circumcise yourselves to the LORD, and take away the foreskins of your heart, ye men of Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem: lest my fury come forth like fire, and burn that none can quench it, because of the evil of your doings. They...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Declare ye in Judah, and publish in Jerusalem; and say, Blow ye the trumpet in the land: cry, gather together, and say, Assemble yourselves, and let us go into the defensed cities. Set up the standard towards Zion: retire, stay not: for I will bring evil from the north, and a great destruction. The lion is come up from his thicket, and the...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For this gird you with sackcloth, lament and howl: for the fierce anger of LORD is not turned back from us. And it shall come to pass at that day, saith the LORD, that the heart of the king shall perish, and the heart of the princes; and the priests shall be astonished, and the prophets shall wonder. Universal fear would take hold upon them. If...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Then said I, Ah! Lord God! surely thou hast greatly deceived this people and Jerusalem, saying, Ye shall have peace; whereas the sword reacheth unto the soul. God promises them peace, but it was upon a condition which they did not fulfill. There was peace while they gave up their sin, but “There is no peace, With God, unto the wicked”: and so they...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
At that time shall it be said to this people and to Jerusalem. A dry wind of the high places in the wilderness toward the daughter of my people, not to fan, nor to cleanse, Even a full wind from those places shall come unto me: now also will I give sentence against them. What an awful line that is. “Now also will I give sentence against them.”...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Behold, he shall come up as clouds, and his chariots shall be as a whirlwind: his horses are swifter than eagles. Woe unto us! for we are spoiled. They began to cry out when they began to smart, and the prophet comes in again.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
O Jerusalem, wash thine heart from wickedness, that thou mayest be saved. There is ever that silver bell of mercy ringing out the note of invitation. “O Jerusalem, thy sorrows, thy destruction may yet be averted if thou wilt turn from thy darkness, wash thine heart from wickedness, that thou mayest be saved.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
How long shall thy vain thoughts lodge within thee? For a voice declareth from Dan, and publisheth affliction from mount Ephraim. Make ye mention to the nations: behold, publish against Jerusalem, that watchers come from a far country and give out their voice against the cities of Judah. As keepers of a field, are they against her round about;...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
My bowels, my bowels! I am pained at my very heart; my heart maketh a noise in me; I cannot hold my peace, because thou has heard, O my soul, the sound of the trumpet, the alarm of war. Destruction upon destruction is cried; for the whole land is spoiled: suddenly are my tents spoiled, and my curtains in a moment. How long shall I see the...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For my people is foolish, they have not known me; they are sottish children, and they have none understanding: they are wise to do evil, but to do good they have no knowledge. I beheld the earth, and, lo, it was without form, and void: and the heavens, and they had no light. As if they had gone back to chaos — to the primeval darkness — to the...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I beheld the mountains, and, lo, they trembled, and all the hills moved lightly. I beheld, and, lo, there was no man, and all the birds of the heavens were fled. I beheld, and, lo, the fruitful place was a wilderness, and all the cities thereof were broken down at the presence of the LORD, and by his fierce anger, For thus hath the LORD said, The...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Run ye to and fro through the streets of Jerusalem, and see now, and know, and seek in the broad places thereof, if ye can find a man, if there be any that executeth judgment, that seeketh the truth; and I will pardon it. It was a very wonderful offer, on the part of God, to forgive the inhabitants of the whole city of Jerusalem for the sake of...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And though they say, The LORD liveth; surely they swear falsely. Even those who assumed an appearance of being religious, and who said, “Jehovah liveth,”—even they were false swearers. To what a terribly sad state had the age come when its very religion was a lie, and its professedly holy things were thoroughly rotten!
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
O LORD, are not thine eyes upon the truth? If there be any truthful man anywhere, God sees him. His eyes are upon him, he regards him with attentive delight, and he will take care of him with the utmost vigilance. But what was the real character of these people? Listen. Jer_5:3. Thou hast stricken them, but they have not grieved; thou hast...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Therefore I said, Surely these are poor; they are foolish: for they know not the way of the Lord, nor the judgment of their God. I will get me unto the great men, and will speak unto them; for they have known the way of the LORD, and the judgment of their God: But he found no improvement among them; they were even worse than the poor and ignorant,...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
But these have altogether broken the yoke, and burst the bonds. Wherefore a lion out of the forest shall slay them, and a wolf of the evenings shall spoil them, a leopard shall watch over their cities: every one that goeth out thence shall be torn in pieces: because their transgressions are many, and their backslidings, are increased. Now let us...