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Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And they shall be as mighty men, which tread down their enemies in the mire of the streets in the battle: and they shall fight, because the LORD is with them, and the riders on horses shall be confounded. The Jewish infantry often turned to flight the Syrian cavalry, and I may fitly compare the apostles of old to humble fighters upon foot, while...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And I will strengthen the house of Judah, and I will save the house of Joseph, and I will bring them again to place them; for I have mercy upon them: and they shall be as though I had not cast them off; for I am the LORD their God, and will hear them See, beloved, how the everlasting covenant is the great foundation of everything for the saints. “...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And they of Ephraim shall be like a mighty man, and their heart shall rejoice as through wine: yea, their children shall see it and be glad; their heart shall rejoice in the LORD. Get a firm hold of this promise, believers, and plead it. Are you dull and heavy, desponding and sad? Then plead this promise, “ Their heart shall rejoice in the Lord.”
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I will hiss for them, and gather them; for I have redeemed them: and they shall increase as they hare increased. The word “hiss” is supposed by some to be an allusion to the Eastern custom of men who managed bees making a sound like hissing in order to gather them into the hive. Others, however, translate the word “piping”, as the shepherd pipes...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And I will sow them among the people and they shall remember me in far countries; and they shall live with their children, and turn again. I will bring them again also out of the land of Egypt, and gather them out of Assyria; and I will bring them into the land of Gilead and Lebanon; and place shall not be found for them. And he shall pass through...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And shall smite the waves in the sea, and all the deeps of the river shall dry up: and the pride of Assyria shall be brought down, and the scepter of Egypt shall depart away. For the glory of God in the deliverance of his people is sure to be attended by another form of glory in the destruction of his enemies Christ is a sweet saviour unto God...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And I will strengthen them in the LORD; and they shall walk up and down in his name, saith the LORD. This exposition consisted of readings from Zechariah 9, , 10.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Thus saith the LORD my God; Feed the flock of the slaughter; This is a deep prophecy. It may be interpreted concerning many events, but I think it primarily refers to the departure of the people of Israel from God, and their rejection of Christ. It has to do with the first coming of Christ, and the way in which they cast off the great Shepherd,...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Whose possessors slay them, and hold themselves not guilty: and they that sell them say, Blessed be the LORD; for I am rich; and their own shepherds pity them not. They bound heavy burdens upon them, grievous to be borne, but they touched them not with one of their fingers. The Scribes and Pharisees were false shepherds, and had clean departed...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For I will no more pity the inhabitants of the land, saith the LORD: but, lo, I will deliver the men every one into his neighbour’s hand, and into the hand of his king: and they shall smite the land, and out of their hand I will not deliver them. Christ gathered a few round him who were his true sheep, who knew his voice, and these he fed; they...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And I will feed the flock of slaughter, even you, O poor of the flock. And I took unto me two staves; the one I called Beauty, and the other I called Bands; and I fed the flock. The “Beauty” is the loving-kindness of the presence of God; “thy rod and thy staff, they comfort me.” By “Bands” we understand binders, the unity of the flock; that which...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Three shepherds also I cut off in one month; and my soul loathed them, and their soul also abhorred me. There is a mutual loathing between God and ungodly men. They, to whom Christ came, were of this character; they loathed him. and he could not endure them. See how he cried to them, “Woe unto you, Scribes, Pharisees, hypocrites; woe unto you...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Then said I, I will not feed you: that that dieth, let it die; and that that is to be cut off, let it be cut off; and let the rest eat every one the flesh of another. And I took my staff, even Beauty, and cut it asunder, that I might break my covenant which I had made with all the people. And it was broken in that day: and so the poor of the flock...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And I said unto them, If ye think good, give me my price; and it not, forbear. So they weighed for my price thirty pieces of silver. And the LORD said unto me, Cast it unto the potter; a goodly price that I was priced at of them. And I took the thirty pieces of silver, and cast them to the potter in the house of the LORD. You know how this came to...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Then I cut asunder mine other staff, even Bands, that I might break the brotherhood between Judah and Israel. They became a scattered people henceforth.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And the LORD said unto me, Take unto thee yet the instruments of a foolish shepherd. Hard clubs and swords, and such like things, unfit for sheep.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For, lo, I will raise up a shepherd in the land, which shall not visit those that be cut off, neither shall seek the young one, nor heal that that is broken, nor feed that that standeth still: but he shall eat the flesh of the fat, and tear their claws in pieces. Woe to the idol shepherd that leaveth the flock! the sword shall be upon his arm, and...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
The burden of the word of the LORD for Israel, saith the LORD, which stretcheth forth the heavens, and layeth the foundation of the earth, and formeth the spirit of man within him. Behold, I will make Jerusalem a cup of trembling unto all the people round about, when they shall be in the siege both against Judah and against Jerusalem. And in that...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Behold, I will make Jerusalem a cup of trembling unto all the people round about, when they shall be in the siege both against Judah and against Jerusalem. This is a promise of God’s abounding mercy to his chosen people Israel. When he comes to their aid, they shall be a cup of trembling to their enemies. Those enemies will try to swallow them,...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Saith the LORD of hosts, that I will cut off the names of the idols out of the land, and they shall no more be remembered: and also I will cause the prophets and the unclean spirit to pass out of the land. God will not only destroy the idols, but he will cut off the very names of them out of the land, and they shall no more be remembered.