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Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Who is the wise man, that may understand this? and who is he to whom the mouth of the LORD hath spoken, that he may declare it, for what the land perisheth and is burned up like a wilderness, that none passeth through? The land would never have been desolate if it had not been for the wickedness of the people. Sin-sin it is that does the mischief....
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And the LORD saith, Because they have forsaken my law which I set before them, and have not obeyed my voice, neither walked therein; but have walked after the imagination of their own heart, and after Baalim, After many Baals, is the meaning; many are the gods that men make for themselves when they turn away from Jehovah.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Which their fathers taught them: therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Behold, I will feed them, even this people, with wormwood, and give them water of gall to drink. You cannot sin without suffering. If you will not drink of the waters of obedience, but will drink of the waters of rebellion, they shall be bitter.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I will scatter them also among the heathen, whom neither they nor their fathers have known: and I will send a sword after them, till I have consumed them. A patriot for man, a prophet for God, do you marvel that he wept?
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Thus saith the LORD of hosts, Consider ye, and call for the mourning women, that they may come; and send for cunning women, that they may come: These were the hired mourners, the women who were paid to go to funerals, and simulate grief. “Send for your weepers now;” said the LORD of hosts, “for if you ever needed mourners, you need them now.”
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And let them make haste, and take up a wailing for us, that our eyes may run down with tears, and our eyelids gush out with waters. For a voice of wailing is heard out of Zion, These were no mock mourners; but real weepers, who had cause to mourn.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
How are we spoiled! we are greatly confounded, Why did they not say, “How have we sinned”? No; men will think of the punishment they suffer; but they will overlook the sin they commit. Jer_9:19. Because we have forsaken the land, because our dwellings have cast us out. Why did not they say, “Because we have forsaken the LORD, because we have cast...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Yet hear the word of the LORD, O ye women, and let your ear receive the word of his mouth, and teach your daughters wailing, and every one her neighbour lamentation. For death is come up into our windows, It did not wait to come in by the door. In time of war or pestilence, death comes how it will through every casement, closed or open.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And is entered into our palaces, to cut off the children from without, and the young men from the streets. Generally, in war, they spare the children; and they carry the young men away as captives. The Chaldeans were cruel; they killed the little ones, and they slew the young men.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Speak, Thus saith the LORD, Even the carcases of men shall fall as dung upon the open field, and as the handful after the harvestman, and none shall gather them. So dreadful was the devastation that was wrought by these Chaldeans on account of the people’s sin, that dead bodies lay like heaps of dung that the husbandman strews upon the field.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Thus saith the LORD, Let not the wise man glory in his wisdom, neither let the mighty man glory in his might, let not the rich man glory in his riches: but let him that glorieth glory in this, that he understandeth and knoweth me, that I am the LORD which exercise lovingkindness, judgment, and righteousness, in the earth: for in these things I...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will punish all them which are circumcised with the uncircumcised; If they sin like others, they shall die like others, circumcised or uncircumcised, baptized or unbaptized.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Egypt, and Judah, and Edom, You see that Judah is sandwiched in between Egypt and Edom. Those who were the people of God are put in the same category with the accursed nation, because they had forsaken him, and mixed up with them. Jer_9:26. And the children of Ammon, and Moab, and all that are in the utmost corners, that dwell in the wilderness:...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Hear ye the word which the Lord speaketh unto you, O house of Israel: Thus saith the LORD, Learn not the way of the heathen, and be not dismayed at the signs of heaven; for the heathen are dismayed at them. Among the heathen, if certain stars were in conjunction, it was considered unlucky; and certain days of the week were also regarded as...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For the customs of the people are vain: for one cutteth a tree out of the forest, the work of the hands of the workman, with the axe. They deck it with silver and with gold; they fasten it with nails and with hammers, that it move not. Those ancient prophets seemed to take delight in heaping scorn upon the god-making of the heathen. Even the...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
They are upright as the palm tree, but speak not: they must need be borne, because they cannot go. Pretty gods they must be, cannot move, and cannot even stand till they are nailed up, and cannot stir unless they are carried from place to place.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Be not afraid of them; for they cannot do evil, neither also is it in them to do good. Forasmuch as there is none like unto thee, O LORD; thou art great, and thy name is great in might. Who would not fear thee, O King of nations? for to thee doth it appertain: forasmuch as among all the wise men of the nations, and in all their kingdoms, there is...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Silver spread into plates is brought from Tarshish, and gold from Uphaz, the work of the workman, and of the hands of the founder: blue and purple is their clothing: they are all the work of cunning men. Step into any Roman Catholic Joss-house in England, or on the Continent or, for the matter of that, into any Anglican Joss-house, for they are...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
But the LORD is the true God, he is the living God, and an everlasting king: at his wrath the earth shall tremble, and the nations shall not be able to abide his indignation. Thus shall ye say unto them, The gods that have not made the heavens and the earth, even they shall perish from the earth, and from under these heavens. He hath made the...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Every man is brutish in his knowledge: Every idolater proves that he knows no more than a brute beast when he worships a stock or a stone.