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Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
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. They would not recognize the Giver, so the gift should be taken away from them. Now the people dwelling in the country villages begin to be alarmed...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Why do we sit still? assemble yourselves, and let us enter into the defensed cities, and let us be silent there: for the LORD our God hath put us to silence, and given us water of gall to drink, because we have sinned against the LORD, We looked for peace, but no good came; and for a time of health, and behold trouble! The snorting of his horses...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For, behold, I will send serpents, cockatrices, among you, which will not be charmed, and they shall bite you, saith the LORD. Such were the Chaldeans, crafty as serpents, full of the venom of cruelty wherever they came, there was no way of charming them as a serpent may be charmed. They came on a deadly errand, and thoroughly did they perform it.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
When I would comfort myself against sorrow, my heart is faint in me. Behold the voice of the cry of the daughter of my people because of them that dwell in a far country: Is not the LORD in Zion? is not her king in her? Why have they provoked me to anger with their graven images, and with strange vanities? The harvest is past, the summer is ended,...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Behold the voice of the cry of the daughter of my people because of them that dwell in a far country: Is not the LORD in Zion? Is not her king in her? Why have they provoked me to anger with their graven images, and with strange vanities? The harvest is past, the summer is ended, and we are not saved. I will read that twentieth verse again: “The...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For the hurt of the daughter of my people am I hurt; I am black; astonishment hath taken hold on me. That is the man to be God’s prophet, the man who makes the sorrows of his people-to be his own sorrows, who does not perform the duties of his office as a mere matter of profession, but enters into his service with a weeping heart, longing to be...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Is there no balm in Gilead; is there no physician there? No; there is none. There is balm in Christ, there is a Physician who once hung on Calvary’s cross; but there is no balm and no physician in Gilead. If there were, — Jer_8:22. Why then is not the health of the daughter of my people recovered? This exposition consisted of readings from Psalms...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Is there no balm in Gilead; is there no physician there? why then is not the health of the daughter of my people recovered? This exposition consisted of readings from Jeremiah 8; Jer_9:1.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Oh that my head were waters, and mine eyes a fountain of tears, that I might weep day and night for the slain of the daughter of my people! This is how God’s servants feel about the dying and perishing souls all around them. They cannot bear the thought of the sinner’s awful doom; it brings continuous heartbreak and heaviness of spirit upon them....
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Oh that my head were waters, and mine eyes a fountain of tears, then, I might weep day and night for the slain of the daughter of my people! Matthew Henry well observes that, in the Hebrew, the same word signifies “eye” and “fountain”, as if God had as much given us eyes to weep with as to see with, as if there were as much cause to sorrow over...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Oh that my head were waters, and mine eyes a fountain of tears, that I might weep day and night for the slain of the daughter of my people! Jeremiah foresaw that the Chaldeans would come up, and so many would be slain that the nation would be almost destroyed.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Oh that I had in the wilderness a lodging place of wayfaring men; that I might leave my people, and go from them! for they be all adulterers, an assembly of treacherous men. He mourned because of the doom that awaited them; but he equally mourned because of the sin that would bring that doom upon them. He wished that he could get away into one of...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And they bend their tongues like their bow for lies: They made use of the tongue, as if it were a bow, to shoot out falsehood. It is a very graphic description of the men of Jeremiah’s day. He dips his pen in his heart’s blood as he writes about them. Jer_9:3. But they are not valiant for the truth upon the earth; Oh, no! No one stood up for the...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Take ye heed every one of his neighbour, and trust ye not in any brother: for every brother will utterly supplant, and every neighbour will walk with slanders. It was an evil time indeed when, even in the domestic circle, there could be no brotherly confidence. “Every brother will utterly supplant.” Jacob’s name, you remember, was supplanter; and...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And they will deceive every one his neighbour, and will not speak the truth: they have taught their tongue to speak lies, and weary themselves to commit iniquity. What a sad state they were in! Their tongues spoke lies without any teaching; but they schooled them till they were masters of the art of lying. They were D.D.s, doctors of dissembling;...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Thine habitation is in the midst of deceit; through deceit they refuse to know me, saith the LORD. Putting forth all their critical ingenuity to get rid of God, his Word, inspiration, and the divine sacrifice, doing all they could that they might not know God.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts, Behold, I will melt them, and try them; for how shall I do for the daughter of my people? Their tongue is as an arrow shot out; it speaketh deceit: one speaketh peaceably to his neighbour with his mouth, but in heart he layeth his wait. Do you wonder that Jeremiah wept? With so true a spirit, so tender and...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Shall I not visit them for these things? saith the LORD: shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this? Divine justice sets the fire of indignation burning. Nothing excites God’s wrath more than continued falsehood and deceit, unkindness, unbrotherly conduct, and unholiness of life. Put all these evils together, and you have more than...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For the mountains will I take up a weeping and wailing, and for the habitations of the wilderness a lamentation, because they are burned up, so that none can pass through them; neither can men hear the voice of the cattle; both the fowl of the heavens and the beast are fled; they are gone. The prophet pictures what the Chaldeans would do. They...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And I will make Jerusalem heaps, and a den of dragons; and I will make the cities of Judah desolate, without an inhabitant. Jeremiah had to live to see all this. The thought of it pulled up the sluices of his tears, and made him wish that all the clouds and seas and rains would come, and dwell in his eyes, for his grief had need of all the watery...