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Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Now why dost thou cry out aloud? is there no king in thee? is thy Counselor perished? Sometimes, our prayers may be the utterance of our fears rather than of our faith, and then the question comes, “Is there no king in thee? Is thy Counselor perished?” Can we not trust to him whose name is “Wonderful, Counselor, The mighty God, The everlasting...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Be in pain, and labour to bring forth, O daughter of Zion, like a woman in travail,.... Bear thy troubles and calamities, sufferings and sorrows, patiently, and expect deliverance from them, as a woman in such circumstances does: or, as some render it in the future, "thou shalt be in pain", c. (y) and so is a prediction of their distress and...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For pangs have taken thee as a woman in travail. They are sharp pangs, but they lead to life, and therefore they are blessed pangs after all. Mic_4:10. Be in pain, and labour to bring forth, O daughter of Zion, like a woman in travail: for now shalt thou go forth out of the city, and thou shalt dwell in the field, and thou shalt go even to...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Now also many nations are gathered against thee,.... Which is to be understood, not of Sennacherib's army invading Judea, and besieging Jerusalem, in Hezekiah's time; for that was not threshed, as the phrase is afterwards used, or destroyed by the daughter of Zion, but by an angel from heaven: nor of the Babylonians or Chaldeans, since they...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Now also many nations are gathered against thee, that say, Let her be defiled, and let our eye look upon Zion. All the enemies of Israel came together, hoping to destroy her, they saw that God had left her for a while in their hands, so they maliciously sought her destruction.
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
But they know not the thoughts of the Lord, neither understand they his counsel,.... Which are very different from theirs: the thoughts and designs of the enemies of Zion, in the times of the Maccabees, were, to destroy utterly the people of God, and root them out of the earth, and abolish their religion and worship; but the intentions of God were...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
But they know not the thoughts of the LORD, — They had their own thoughts, and they thought that the Lord meant what they meant, — the entire destruction of the chosen race. So the prophet says, “But they know not the thoughts of the Lord,” — Mic_4:12. Neither understand they his counsel: for he shall gather them as the sheaves into the floor. God...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Arise, and thresh, O daughter of Zion,.... The nations gathered against her, and now laid together on the floor as sheaves to be threshed. Here the people of God are aroused, and called out of a low and weak estate, and are animated and encouraged to exert themselves, and fall upon their enemies, and destroy them; alluding to the threshing of...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Arise and thresh, O daughter of Zion: for I will make thine horn iron, and I will make thy hoofs brass; and thou shalt beat in pieces many people: She was to be like the ox that treadeth out the corn, and she was to have horns of iron and hoofs of brass with which to break in pieces those that had oppressed her. Mic_4:13. And I will consecrate...