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Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Asshur shall not save us; we will not ride upon horses: neither will we say any more to the work of our hands, Ye are our gods: for in thee the fatherless findeth mercy. If you come to God to be saved, you must bring no other saviour with you. What an encouragement is given to us to come to God! He calls himself the Father of the fatherless. O...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
I will heal their backslidings,.... This and what follows is the Lord's answer to the above prayer; and this clause particularly is an answer to that petition, "take away all iniquity", Hosea 14:2; sins are diseases, natural and hereditary, nauseous and loathsome, mortal, and incurable but by the grace of God, and blood of Christ; backslidings are...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I will heal their backsliding,— He can do it; he will do it, he evidently rejoices to do it. He soliloquizes with himself, as though it were a very pleasant thought to him: “I will heal their backsliding,”— Hos_14:4. I will love them freely: “Though there is nothing lovely in them, though they deserve my wrath,—though, according to their own...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I will heal their backsliding, — “Nobody else can do it, but I can, and I will. I will not chide them any more, I will not keep them at a distance from me as unworthy to draw near to me; but ‘I will heal their backslidings,’” — Hos_14:4. I will love them freely; — That is a grand sentence. God could not love us anyhow else, for what price could...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For mine anger is turned away from him. I will be as the dew unto Israel: — You know that, in the East the dew is a great fertilizer, even more so than it is here; When a plot of ground is all browned by the hot sun, the dew makes it green and fruitful again. So God says, “I will be as the dew unto Israel:” —
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I will heal their backsliding, I will love them freely: — Listen to the heavenly music: “I will.” “I will.” When God says, “I will,” you may depend upon it that he will do what he says he will. If you or I say, “I will,” it must be with the proviso, “If it is God’s will, I will do so-and- so,” but God is the almighty king whose least word is a...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I will heal their backsliding, I will love them freely: for mine anger is turned away from him. I will be as the dew unto Israel: “Swiftly and mysteriously will I come and refresh him.”
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
I will be as the dew unto Israel,.... To spiritual Israel, to those that return to the Lord, take with them words, and pray unto him, whose backslidings are healed, and they are freely loved; otherwise it is said of apostate Israel or Ephraim, that they were "smitten, [and] their root dried up, [and bore] no fruit", Hosea 9:16. These words, and...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I will be as the dew unto Israel: “When they come back to me, I will refresh them,—softly, sweetly, efficaciously, abundantly, mysteriously, even as the dew refreshes the thirsty earth.” Hos_14:5. He shall grow as the lily,- Your souls shall suddenly spring up. As the daffodil-lily springs up almost in a night, and its golden bells speedily...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
He shall grow as the lily, — That is, upwards, bearing his flowers as near heaven as he can; not groveling as he once did. He shall grow rapidly, as the daffodil lily does, which seems to start up, in the East, after a shower of rain, and come to maturity at once. Lord, grant that we may bring forth lilies of grace all of a sudden! May there be in...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I will be as the dew unto Israel:- The dew is God’s gift, and so is grace; the dew falls silently, yet copiously, and bedews both the leaf and the root sufficiently. “I will be as the dew unto Israel,” is a promise to the man of faith, the man of prayer, the man who can endure trial: “I will be as the dew unto Israel;” — Hos_14:5. He shall grow as...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I will be as the dew unto Israel: — “Not as first, not as tempest; but in gentle yet effectual grace, I will visit them. I will be as the dew unto Israel:” — Hos_14:5. He shall grow as the lily, “He shall be as beautiful and fair as the lily, though just now he was black as night.” Hos_14:5. And cast forth his roots as Lebanon. “He shall be as...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
He shall grow as the lily, Quickly, beautifully, — Hos_14:5. And cast forth his roots as Lebanon. He shall be as permanent as he is fair, like a cedar as well as like a lily.
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
His branches shall spread,.... As the well rooted cedars in Lebanon; see Numbers 24:6. This respects the propagation of the church of God, and the interest of Christ in the world, as in the first times of the Gospel, and will be in the latter day; when the Gospel shall be spread everywhere; churches set up in all places; the Jews converted, and...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
His branches shall spread, You shall begin to have influence upon others, and cast a shadow over them for their good. Hos_14:6. And his beauty shall be as the olive tree, His soul, bedewed by grace divine, shall be beautiful as the olive tree, which has an almost indescribable loveliness all its own. Hos_14:6. And his smell as Lebanon. There shall...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
His branches shall spread, and his beauty shall be as the olive tree, and his smell as Lebanon. They that dwell under his shadow shall return; His children, who were led into mischief by his bad example, shall be drawn back again.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
His branches shall spread, This is growing sideways; so the believer spreads his branches by public profession and testimony after having become deeply rooted in the faith and having grown up in love to God, then he begins to spread his shadow over the sons of men by telling- “To sinners round, What a dear Saviour he has found.” Hos_14:6. And his...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
His branches shall spread, “I will endue him with usefulness and influence. Hos_14:6. And his beauty shall be as the olive tree, “I will load him with fruit. He shall have the beauty that belongs to that fat and oily tree, the olive.” Hos_14:6. And his smell as Lebanon. God can make the foul, polluted sinner to become fragrant to him: “His smell...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
His branches shall spread, The dew of the Lord imparts influence to men; it gives them, as it were branches, with which they cast a wide shadow. Hos_14:6. And his beauty shall be as the olive tree, The beauty of fruitfulness. God grant all of us this beauty! Hos_14:6. And his smell as Lebanon. Oh, to stand in holy repute among men, so that there...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
They that dwell under his shadow shall return,.... Either under the shadow of Lebanon, as Japhet and Jarchi; the shadow of that mountain, or of the trees that grew upon it; or under the shadow of Israel, the church, to which young converts have recourse, and under which they sit with pleasure; or rather under the shadow of the Lord Israel was...