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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...
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...
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.
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.”
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.”
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I was a derision to all my people; and their song all the day. It is just so with a man who is under a sense of sin. His companions ask him why he is so melancholy; he has an attack of the mopes, they say. They do not want his society, they will chase him from their midst. I marvel not that they want not his company, for well do I know that he...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I was a derision to all my people; and their song all the day. He hath filled me with bitterness, he hath made me drunken with wormwood. He hath also broken my teeth with gravel stone, he hath covered me with ashes. And thou hast removed my soul far off from peace: I forgat prosperity. “It seems so long since I have had any prosperity that I have...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I was a derision to all my people; and their song all the day. He hath filled me with bitterness, he hath made me drunken with wormwood. He hath also broken my teeth with gravel stones, he hath covered me with ashes. And thou hast removed my soul far off from peace: I forgat prosperity. “It seems so long ago since I was prosperous that I forget...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
He hath filled me with bitterness, he hath made me drunken with wormwood. What a strong expression the prophet uses! As a drunken man hath lost his wits, and staggereth he knoweth not where, even as is a sinner when he really begins to taste the bitterness of sin. He does not act as if he were endowed with reason; despair and sorrow have driven...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
He hath also broken my teeth with gravel stones, he hath covered me with ashes. The Easterns usually baked their cakes on the hearth, and very frequently there would be in the cakes pieces of grit, perhaps large lumps of cinder, and sometimes small gravel stones, which would break the teeth. “So,” the prophet seems to say, “ when I went to try to...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And thou hast removed my soul far off from peace: I forgot prosperity. And I said, My strength and my hope is perished from the LORD: remembering mine affliction and my misery, the wormwood and the gall. My soul hath them still in remembrance, and is humbled in me. This I recall to my mind, therefore have I hope. Notice the gracious change that...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And I said, My strength and my hope is perished from the LORD: Remembering mine affliction and my misery, the wormwood and the gall. My soul hath them still in remembrance, and is humbled in me. This I recall to my mind, therefore have I hope. And as long as your afflictions, poor troubled souls, have really humbled you, you may have hope. Recall...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And I said, My strength and my hope is perished from the LORD: Remembering mine affliction and my misery, the wormwood and the gall. My soul hath them still in remembrance, and is humbled in me. This I recall to my mind, therefore have I hope. Notice that, in all his sorrow, this man still had hope. His soul was humbled, and therefore he had hope....
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
It is of the LORD’S mercies that we are not consumed, because his compassion fail not. Bad as our state is, we are not yet in hell; we are not yet beyond the reach of hope.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
It is of the LORD’S mercies that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not. See where Jeremiah gets his comfort; he seems to say, “Bad as my case is, it might have been worse, for I might have been consumed, and I should have been consumed if the Lord’s compassions had failed.” Ah, brethren and sisters, and we too might have been in...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
It is of the LORD’S mercies that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not. Hear that, troubled heart; you are not yet destroyed, you are still in the land of the living, — as we say “on praying ground and pleading terms with God.” “It is of Jehovah’s mercies that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not.”
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
They are new every morning: great is thy faithfulness. We had new mercies this morning, and we have had fresh mercies this evening. God has not forgotten us. The very breath in our nostrils is a proof of his goodness to us; let us, therefore, dear friends, still hope for yet further favors from him.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
They are new every morning: great is thy faithfulness. If every day brings its trouble, every day also brings its mercy. Up to this day, at all events, we have not perished. The Lord has chastened us, but he has not crushed us. We have been cast down, but we have not been destroyed. “Great is thy faithfulness.” No man can say that so truly as the...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
They are new every morning: great is thy faithfulness. The LORD is my portion, saith my soul; therefore will I hope in him. “With all my troubles, and losses, and griefs, I still have a God; therefore will I hope in him.”
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
The LORD is my portion, saith my soul; therefore will I hope in him. The LORD is good unto them that wait for him, to the soul that seeketh him. Can you get a hold of this blessed truth, any of you troubled ones who are here? Broken-hearted sinner, can you get a grip of this comforting assurance? If so, there will soon be peace for you.