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Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Where is the dwelling of the lions, and the feedingplace of the young lions, where the lion, even the old lion, walked, and the lion’s whelp, and none made them afraid? You will remember how Mr. Layard took out of the ruins at Nineveh those immense lions that now stand in the British Museum. They were the very type of this great empire, that...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
The lion did tear in pieces enough for his whelps, and strangled for his lionesses, and filled his holes with prey, and his dens with ravin. They were always destroying, and plundering, and carrying home the spoil, so that everybody was fattened with the rapine of the nations.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Behold, I am against thee, saith the LORD of hosts, And whenever that is the case, a man does not need any other adversary. If God be against you, O my dear hearer, what will become of you? Though you should have all the power of the world, and possess robust health, abundant riches, and keen wit, what can you do against God? “I am against thee,...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Woe to the bloody city! it is all full of lies and robbery; the prey departeth not; Assyria became a great empire through violence, falsehood, and robbery. The soldiery had no respect for justice; they trod out the last spark of liberty, and crushed all nations under their feet.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
The noise of a whip, and the noise of the rattling of the wheels, and of the prancing horses, and of the jumping chariots. The horseman lifteth up both the bright sword and the glittering spear: and there is a multitude of slain, and a great number of carcasses; and there is none end of their corpses; they stumble upon their corpses: When the...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Because of the multitude of the whoredoms of the well favoured harlot, the mistress of witchcrafts, that selleth nations through her whoredoms, and families through her witchcrafts. Behold, I am against thee, saith the LORD of hosts; These people had been steeped in sin of the worst kind, they had led other nations into it; and had practiced the...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And I will discover thy skirts upon thy face, and I will shew the nations thy nakedness, and the kingdoms thy shame. And I will cast abominable filth upon thee, and make thee vile, and will set thee as a gazingstock. See what God can do. They were the proudest of the proud, and now he makes them the scorn of the scorner, and sets them as a...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And it shall come to pass, that all they that look upon thee shall flee from thee, and say, Nineveh is laid waste: who will bemoan her? whence shall I seek: comforters for thee? If you could go today, and see the vast heaps of Kouyunjik, and of the great monuments of that mighty city all destroyed and crumbling into powder, you would know...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Art thou better than populous No, that was situate among the rivers, that had the waters round about it, whose rampart was the sea, and her wall was from the sea? The prophet quotes the destruction of the city called No-Amon, probably Thebes, as an instance of what God can do.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Ethiopia and Egypt were her strength, and it was infinite; There seemed to be no measure to her strength. If she wanted assistance from other nations, she had only to call them in, and the mercenary tribes were ready to defend her.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Put and Lubim were thy helpers. Yet was she carried away, she went into captivity: her young children also were dashed in pieces at the top of all the streets: and they cast lots for her honourable men, and all her great men were bound in chains. So one city is a warning to another. No in Egypt is a warning to Nineveh in Assyria, and both of these...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Thou also shalt be drunken: thou shalt be hid, thou also shalt seek strength because of the enemy. Nineveh never dreamed of doing that; she said, “I am a queen, I shall see no sorrow; I am the greatest of all cities.”
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
All thy strongholds shall be like fig trees with the first ripe figs: if they be shaken, they shall even fall into the mouth of the eater. As figs do when they are ripe. These castles, towers, fortresses, built to stand the siege, would be no sooner attacked than they would fall into the hand of the enemy.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Behold, thy people in the midst of thee are women: You see, on those great Assyrian stones, the strong men that are sculptured there, with their enormous muscles, telling of gigantic force. When God came to deal with them, they became weak and cowardly.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
The gates of thy land shall be set wide open unto thine enemies: the fire shall devour thy bars. Draw thee waters for the siege, The prophet challenges them to defend themselves.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Fortify thy strong holds: go into clay, and tread the mortar, make strong the brickkiln. That was, to mend the walls whenever they were broken. They did this with great industry. “Do it,” says God, “yet you shall not be able to stand.”
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
There shall the fire devour thee; the sword shall cut thee off, it shall eat thee up like the cankerworm: make thyself many as the cankerworm, make thyself many as the locusts. Thou hast multiplied thy merchants above the stars of heaven: the cankerworm spoileth, and fleeth away. Thy crowned are as the locusts, and thy captains as the great...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Thy shepherds slumber, O king of Assyria They who should have taken care of the people, the chief governors, neglected them; they who should have defended the people were out of the way when they were wanted: “Thy shepherds slumber, O king of Assyria.” Nah_3:18. Thy nobles shall dwell in the dust: thy people is scattered upon the mountains, and no...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
There is no healing of thy bruise; thy wound is grievous: Thank God, we have not come to that point yet, there is healing for the bruised sinner! Though the wounds of our people are grievous, there is a balm for them; we know where it is, and what it is; let us not be slow to tell them about it. Nah_3:19. All that hear the bruit of thee shall clap...