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Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And now will I discover her lewdness in the sight of her lovers, and none shall deliver her out of mine hand. I will also cause all her mirth to cease, her feast days, her new moons, and her sabbaths, and all her solemn feasts. When God deals with men, he uses no half measures. If they have been very happy in the ways of sin, and he intends to...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
I will also cause all her mirth to cease,.... As it must in course, this being her case, as before described, whether considered in individuals, or as a body politic, or in their church state, as follows: her feast days; which the Jews understand of the three feasts of tabernacles, passover, and pentecost; typical of Christ's tabernacling in human...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
And I will destroy her vines and her fig trees,.... Which are mentioned for the rest, being the most fruitful and beneficial: this was done when Judea was invaded, overrun and wasted, by the Roman army; and when many were cut down, as Josephus observes, to build forts, and cast up mounts against Jerusalem; so that, he, says (l), the appearance of...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And I will destroy her vines and her fig trees, whereof she hath said, These are my rewards that my lovers have given me: and I will make them a forest, and the beasts of the field shall eat them. Her most precious things shall be destroyed; or, if they are allowed to exist, they shall become a cause of fear and trouble. Oh, how often have I seen...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And I will destroy her vines and her fig trees, whereof she hath said, These are my rewards that my lovers have given me: and I will make them a forest, and the beasts of the field shall eat them. So that the joys of sin shall become miseries, as if vineyards were suddenly trained into dense forests wherein lions and wolves might make their lairs....
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
And, I will visit upon her the days of Baalim,.... That is, punish them for all the idolatries committed by their forefathers, in the days that the several Baals, as Baalpeor, and Baalberith, and others, were worshipped by them; they their children, though not worshipping these Baalim, yet other lords, lusts and idols, they set up of themselves,...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And I will visit upon her the days of Baalim, wherein she burned incense to them, and she decked herself with her earrings and her jewels, and she went after her lovers, and forgat me, saith the LORD. They burnt no incense at Jerusalem; they refused to offer sacrifice there; but they went to this hill and to that, to worship the different images...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And I will visit upon her the days of Baalim, wherein she burned incense to them, and she decked herself with her earrings and her jewels, and she went after her lovers, and forgat me, saith the LORD. It is terrible when God comes to visit upon men the days of their sin,-when for every night of sin they shall have a night of anguish. — when for...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Therefore, behold, I will allure her,.... Since these rough ways will not do, I will take another, a more mild and gentle way; instead of threatening, terrifying, and punishing, I will allure, persuade, and entice, giving loving words and winning language: or "nevertheless", or "notwithstanding" (m): so Noldius and others render the particle;...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Therefore, behold, I will allure her, and bring her into the wilderness, and speak comfortably unto her. Oh, glorious verse! She that went so far astray, God will come, and draw her back from the path of sin. He will get her alone; he will bring her into a place of grief and sorrow, a wilderness; and then he will come near, and speak sweet words...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Therefore, behold, I will allure her, and bring her into the wilderness, and speak comfortably unto her. You might have thought the Lord was going to say, “Therefore, behold, I will destroy her.” Nothing of the kind: “l will fascinate her to myself; I will draw her away from all her idol lovers, and I will speak comfortably unto her.”
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Therefore, behold, I will allure her, and bring her into the wilderness, and speak comfortably unto her. And I will give her her vineyards from thence, and the valley of Achor for a door of hope: and she shall sing there, as in the days of her youth, and as in the day when she came up out of the land of Egypt. Now I want you to hear how she did...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
And I will give her vineyards from thence,.... Either from the wilderness into which she is brought; or from the time of her being brought there, allured and spoke comfortably to; which are put for all temporal blessings, and as emblems of spiritual ones: and so from the time that the Lord deals thus graciously, as before expressed, he gives more...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And I will give her her vineyards from thence, He will give back what he took away. He will seal with lovingkindness the real kindness which made him deal roughly with her at first. Hos_2:15. And the valley of Achor for a door of hope: and she shall sing there, as in the days of her youth, and as in the day when she came up out of the land of...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And I will give her her vineyards from thence, and the valley of Achor for a door of hope: and she shall sing there, as in the days of her youth, and as in the day when she came up out of the land of Egypt. “I will pluck this Israel of mine out of all her sin; I will give her back the purity and the happiness of her early days: ‘ She shall sing...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
And it shall be at that day, saith the Lord,.... The Gospel day, the times of the Gospel dispensation, the latter part of them; at the time of the conversion of the Jews, and the bringing in of the fulness of the Gentiles; at the time when God will allure and persuade them to seek the Messiah, and they shall turn to him; when he shall speak...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And it shall be at that day, saith the LORD, that thou shalt call me Ishi; and shalt call me no more Baali. “Baali” means “my lord” in the sense of domination; but God will not seem to us any more like a domineering governor, as we once thought him; but we shall call him “Ishi”, “my husband.” There shall be such nearness of love, such confidence...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And it shall be at that day, saith the LORD, that thou shalt call me Ishi; and shalt call me no more Baali. “Thou shalt call me, My man, my husband,” — a name of sweet endearment, “and shalt call me no more Baali,” that is, “my lord, my lordly husband,” for the Lord’s love shall not be galling to thee, but it shall sweetly and gently rule thee....
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
For I will take away the names of Baalim out of her mouth,.... Out of the mouth of Israel, as Saadiah; out of the mouth of the converted Jews, and even out of the mouth of the Gentiles, as Kimchi owns; the several Baals, as Baalpeor, Baalberith, and Baalzebub, and others: the names of them should be no more used, should not be spoken of, unless...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For I will take away the names of Baalim out of her mouth, and they shall no more be remembered by their name. Oh, the love of God! He does not want us to recollect our old ways. I do not like to hear people talk about their old habits, except they do it very tenderly, with many a tear and many a sigh, and tell the story to the praise and glory of...