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Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
He hath set me in dark places, as they that be dead of old. He hath hedged me about, that I cannot get out: he hath made my chain heavy. Like a prisoner in his dungeon, who has to wear manacles and fetters.
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
He hath hedged me about, that I cannot go out,.... When in prison, or in the dungeon, or during the siege of Jerusalem; though the phrase may only denote in general the greatness of his troubles, with which he was encompassed, and how inextricable they were; like a hedge about a vineyard, or a wall about a city, which could not easily be got over:...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
He hath hedged me about, that I cannot get out: he hath made my chain heavy. “My way seems blocked up, nothing prospers with me.” As the convict sometimes drags about his chain, and has a ball at his foot, so the prophet felt as if God had clogged him with a heavy chain, so that he could not move because of its terrible weight.
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Also when I cry and shout,.... Cry, because of the distress of the enemy within; "shout", or cry aloud for help from others without; as persons in a prison do, to make them hear and pity their case: thus the prophet in his affliction cried aloud to God; was fervent, earnest, and importunate in prayer; and yet not heard: he shutteth out my prayer;...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Also when I cry and shout, he shutteth out my prayer, Which was the worst trial of all.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Also when I cry and shout, he shutteth out my prayer. What a sorrow is this,--to feel that even prayer itself is unavailing! Yet this suppliant was no graceless sinner, he was a dear child of God, one of the noblest of the Lord’s ancient prophets, one of the most faithful of his ministers. You must not think, because sometimes your prayers seem to...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Also when I cry and shout, he shutteth out my prayer. That is the worst trial of all, for there is comfort in prayer; but when even that seems denied you, into what a terrible state of sorrow is your heart brought!
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
He hath enclosed my ways with hewn stone,.... Not with a hedge of thorns, or mud walls, but with a fence of stones; and these not rough, and laid loosely together, but hewn and put in order, and well cemented. The Targum is, with marble hewn stones, which are harder than common stones, and not so easily demolished; this may respect the case of the...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
He hath enclosed my ways with hewn stone; he hath made my paths crooked. It was believed that hewn stones made the strongest wall as the joints would the more closely fit into one another. Jeremiah seems to speak as if God had taken care and trouble to build, not as men do, roughly with common stones, but with polished and well-shapen troubles...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
He hath inclosed my ways with hewn stone, “The Lord has shut me right up, as if he had built a wall around me on every side.”
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
He hath made my paths crooked. He was unto me as a bear lying in wait, and as a lion in secret places. He hath turned aside my ways, and pulled me in pieces: he hath made me desolate. He hath bent his bow, and set me as a mark for the arrow. He hath caused the arrows of his quiver to enter into my reins. The King’s arrows had wounded him to the...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
He hath enclosed my ways with hewn stone, he hath made my paths crooked. He was unto me as a bear lying in wait, and as a lion in secret places. He hath turned aside my ways, and pulled me in pieces: he hath made me desolate. You who remember that experience, bless God that you have passed through it, that you have gone over that rough road into...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
He [was] unto me [as] a bear lying in wait,.... For its prey, which seizes on it at once, and tears it in pieces; such were the Chaldeans to the Jews by divine permission: [and as] a lion in secret places; lurking there, in order to take every opportunity and advantage, and fall upon any creature that comes that way. The same thing is signified...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
He was unto me as a bear lying in wait, and as a lion in secret places. He felt as if the justice of God was about to spring upon him. He was afraid to move, lest the couchant lion should leap upon him, and tear him in pieces. John Bunyan, in his Grace abounding to the Chief of Sinners, describes in his own experience precisely what the prophet...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
He hath turned aside my ways,.... Or caused me to depart or go back from the way I was in, and so fall into the hand of the enemy that lay in wait, as before. Jarchi interprets the word of thorns, and of scattering the way with thorns, and hedging it up with them, so that there was no passing, Hosea 2:6; the sense seems to be the same with...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
He hath turned aside my ways, and pulled me in pieces: he hath made me desolate. He hath bent his bow, and set me as a mark for the arrow. He hath caused the arrows of his quiver to enter into my reins. And all this while, to aggravate his grief, he found no comfort anywhere.
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
He hath bent his bow,.... Which is put for all the instruments, of war; the Chaldeans were archers, and shot their arrows into the city: and set me as a mark for the arrow; as a target to shoot at; signifying that God dealt with him, or his people, as enemies, the object of his wrath and indignation; and if he directed his arrow against them, it...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
He hath bent his bow, and set me as a mark for the arrow. “Every sermon I hear seems a shot at me, every text of Scripture seems an arrow aimed at me.”
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
He hath caused the arrows of his quiver,.... Or, "the sons of his quiver" (i); an usual Hebraism; the quiver is compared, as Aben Ezra observes, to a pregnant woman; and Horace has a like expression, "venenatis gravidam sagittis pharetram" (k); the judgments of God are often signified by this metaphor, even his four sore ones, sword, famine,...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
He hath caused the arrows of his quiver to enter into my reins. “They are not merely shot at me, but they have actually hit me; they have wounded me; they have pierced me in vital parts.”