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Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
At that time, saith the LORD, they shall bring out the bones of the kings of Judah, and the bones of his princes, and the bones of the priests, and the bones of the prophets, and the bones of the inhabitants of Jerusalem, out of their graves: and they shall spread them before the sun and the moon, and all the host of heaven, whom they have loved,...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
At that time, saith the LORD, they shall bring out the bones of the kings of Judah, and the bones of his princes, and the bones of the priests, and the bones of the prophets, and the bones of the inhabitants of Jerusalem, out of their graves: The prophet Jeremiah had to foretell terrible judgments upon the guilty people, who had been often warned,...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And they shall spread them before the sun, and the moon, and all the host of heaven, whom they have loved, and whom they have served, and after whom they have walked, and whom they have sought, and whom they have worshipped: they shall not be gathered, nor be buried; they shall be for dung upon the face of the earth. What a striking and...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And death shall be chosen rather than life by all the residue of them that remain of this evil family, which remain in all the places whither I have driven them, saith the LORD of hosts. These people would not have God, they cast him off; and now he so far casts them off that they feel that it would have been better for them if they had never been...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And death shall be chosen rather than life by all the residue of them that remain of this evil family, which remain in all the places whither I have driven them, saith the LORD of hosts. There was to be stern treatment for the dead; but it would be worse with the living, for the Chaldeans were strong, fierce, cruel, and most ingenious in the...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Moreover thou shalt say unto them, Thus saith the LORD; Shall they fall, and not arise? shall he turn away, and not return? The old proverb says, “It is a long lane that has no turning.” So the Lord seems to ask, “Will these men always go on in sin? Will they always turn away from me? They change from bad to worse; will they never change from...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Moreover thou shalt say unto them, Thus saith the LORD, Shall they fall, and not arise? shall he turn away, and not return? Why then is this people of Jerusalem slidden back by a perpetual backsliding? they hold fast deceit, they refuse to return. Perseverance in sin is a great aggravation of it. There are some who fall into sin, but, by God’s...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Why then is this people of Jerusalem slidden back by a perpetual backsliding? they hold fast deceit, they refuse to return. Perseverance in evil is the very venom of evil. When men not only backslide, but continue perpetually to backslide, they are doubly dyeing their garments in the scarlet of iniquity. When men “refuse to return” to the Lord,...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I hearkened and heard, — It is God who is speaking: “I hearkened and heard,” — Jer_8:6. But they spake not aright: “I tried to discover whether there was any good in them. I listened to hear them offer a prayer, I watched to mark anything like repentance in them.” Jer_8:6. No man repented him of wickedness, saying, What have I done? every one...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I hearkened and heard, but they spake not aright: no man repented him of his wickedness, saying, What have I done? every one turned to his course as the horse rusheth into the battle. God listened; he waited to be gracious; he was eager to hear one penitent cry, and to observe one tear of genuine repentance, but, as the war-horse is eager for the...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Yea, the stork in the heaven knoweth her appointed times; and the turtle and the crane and the swallow observe the time of their coming; but my people know not the judgment of the LORD. The birds take wing across the sea when the damps of autumn come; and, by-and-by, when spring returns, they twitter about our roofs again, punctual to the...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Yea, the stork in the heaven knoweth her appointed times; and the turtle and the crane and the swallow observe the time of their coming; but my people know not the judgment of the LORD. When God’s judgments are being experienced, it is high time to repent. But these people did not think of such a thing, they were not half so sensible as migratory...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
How do ye say, We are wise, and the law of the LORD is with us? Lo, certainly in vain made he it; the pen of the scribes is in vain. The wise men are ashamed, they are dismayed and taken: lo, they have rejected the word of the LORD; and what wisdom is in them? This test may serve as a motto for some, in these days, who believe themselves to be...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
How do ye say, We are wise, and the law of the Lord is with us, certainly in vain made he it; the pen of the scribes is in vain. What! do they talk like that, the people who do not know and do not regard God’s judgments, do they talk in such a style as that? Ah, yes! Some of the most wicked of them have a so-called “religion” upon which they still...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
The wise men are ashamed, they are dismayed and taken: lo, they have rejected the word of the LORD, and what wisdom is in them? See God’s judgment upon a man wise in his own conceit. You hear every now and then, of some wonderfully learned, philosophic, scientific man, and many folk are frightened because he is an infidel. He does not possess true...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Therefore will I give their wives unto others, and their fields to them that shall inherit them: for every one from the least even unto the greatest is given to covetousness, from the prophet even unto the priest every one dealeth falsely. For they have healed the hurt of the daughter of my people slightly, saying, Peace, peace; when there is no...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Therefore will I give their wives unto others, and their fields to them that shall inherit them; for every one from the least even unto the greatest is given to covetousness, from the prophet even unto the priest every one dealeth falsely. For they have healed the hurt of the daughter of my people slightly, saying, Peace, peace; when there is no...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Were they ashamed when they had committed abomination? nay, they were not at all ashamed, neither could they blush: What a striking expression is this! To what a condition of shameless obstinacy have men’s minds been brought when it can be said of them, “They were not at all ashamed, neither could they blush.” The very power to be ashamed was...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Therefore shall they fall among them that fall: in the time of their visitation they shall be cast down, saith the LORD. I will surely consume them, saith the LORD: there shall be no grapes on the vine, nor figs on the fig tree, and the leaf shall fade; and the things that I have given them shall pass away from them. Why do we sit still? assemble...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Were they ashamed when they had committed abomination? nay, they were not at all ashamed, neither could they blush: therefore shall they fall among them that fall: in the time of their visitation they shall be cast down, saith the LORD. They had gone so far that they could not blush. It is a dreadful thing when a man has lost the very sense of...