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Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For their mother hath played the harlot: she that conceived them hath done shamefully: for she said, I will go after my lovers, that give me my bread and my water, my wool and my flax, mine oil and my drink. She attributed to false gods the gifts which God had given to her. This was great ingratitude to God, and a high insult to his holy majesty.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Therefore, behold, I will hedge up thy way with thorns, and make a wall, that she shall not find her paths. That is what God does to sinners whom he means to save. He will not let them take their own course. He gives them thorny trials which hedge up their way. He puts an obstacle in their path, perhaps some sickness or poverty. When men are...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Therefore, behold, I will hedge up thy way with thorns, and make a wall, that she shall not find her paths. God will cause sin to be painful; he will make the way of it difficult; he will do everything to prevent the sinner running in it: “She shall not find her paths.”
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And she shall follow after her lovers, but she shall not overtake them; and she shall seek them, but shall not find them: Thus sinners go after the pleasures of the world, and the pleasures run away from them. They make one thing their god, and then another; and they put out all their strength to attain the object of their ambition; and God...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And she shall follow after her lovers, but she shall not overtake them; They cannot find satisfaction in sinful pleasure; that which once they easily obtained, they shall no longer be able to procure. Hos_2:7. And she shall seek them, but shall not find them: then shall she say, I will go and return to my first husband; for then was it better with...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For she did not know that I gave her corn, and wine, and oil, and multiplied her silver and gold, which they prepared for Baal. Therefore will I return, and take away my corn in the time thereof, and my wine in the season thereof, and will recover my wool and my flax given to cover her nakedness. God claims the blessings of providence as his own;...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For she did not know that I gave her corn, and wine, and oil, and multiplied her silver and gold, which they prepared for Baal. It is a sad sin when we take God’s mercies, and use them in rebellion against him. Just think of it, — the very gifts which Jehovah gave to these people, they presented in sacrifice to Baal; and there are men, who are in...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Therefore will I return, and take away my corn in the time thereof, and my wine in the season thereof, and will recover my wool and my flax given to cover her nakedness. 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...
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...
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....
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...
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...
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...
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....